{"id":632488,"date":"2026-04-26T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632488\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:12:09","slug":"shane-mcguigan-believes-sadistic-chris-billam-smith-is-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632488\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane McGuigan believes \u2018sadistic\u2019 Chris Billam-Smith is improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men\u2019s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular \u201cBoxing Life Stories\u201d podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including \u201cDamage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing\u201d (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), \u201cWarrior: A Champion\u2019s Search for His Identity\u201d (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and \u201cThe Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing\u2019s Wastelands.\u201d You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,60776,128565,958,306242,132493,306241,306240,2643,85,960,118061],"class_list":["post-632488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-brandon-glanton","tag-chris-billam-smith","tag-dana-white","tag-jai-opetai","tag-nick-khan","tag-ryan-rozicki","tag-shane-mcguigan","tag-sky-sports","tag-sports","tag-turki-alalshikh","tag-zuffa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632488","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=632488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}