{"id":598341,"date":"2026-04-10T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:53:11","slug":"boxing-reinvented-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598341\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing reinvented in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two young Berlin entrepreneurs, Toivo Sewing and Lavi Siemens, are disrupting the boxing event market with Playground Boxing, a high-intensity format featuring a smaller boxing ring, raw atmosphere\u00a0and strong, Instagram-driven promotion. The compact ring creates tougher, more spectacular fights and has quickly gained attention from fans seeking an underground, immersive boxing experience in <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/berlin\/t-18967759\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite limited profits so far, the founders are investing heavily, building fighter personalities on <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/social-media\/t-19009735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a>, and aiming to convert online viewers into loyal live audiences. With martial arts growing rapidly worldwide and influencer boxing drawing millions of viewers, Playground Boxing is positioning itself to become a recurring live boxing brand with dedicated fans and future investor backing.<\/p>\n<p>This video summary was created by AI from the original DW script. It was edited by a journalist before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young Berlin entrepreneurs, Toivo Sewing and Lavi Siemens, are disrupting the boxing event market with Playground Boxing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-598341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}