{"id":625224,"date":"2026-04-23T07:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:16:23","slug":"max-mcintyre-ready-to-take-over-after-sparring-lester-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625224\/","title":{"rendered":"Max McIntyre ready to \u2018take over\u2019 after sparring Lester Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cHe might be able to get me out of my third, fourth gear. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve gotten out of third gear yet, but because of his durability and his experience he should be able to. But the way I\u2019m firing right now\u2026 I sparred over in Vegas, with Lester Martinez, the WBC champion, I sparred Al[arenz] Stanton \u2013 Terence Crawford\u2019s sparring partner. Martinez put the pressure on me too \u2013 and he can punch hard \u2013 and the way I handled that, I believe I\u2019ll be able to take over Australian boxing for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe might be able to get me out of my third, fourth gear. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve gotten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,94326,302928,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-625224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-news","12":"tag-boxingscene","13":"tag-lester-martinez","14":"tag-max-mcintyre","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625224","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=625224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}