{"id":643588,"date":"2026-05-01T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643588\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:53:10","slug":"sam-eggington-ready-for-it-to-go-off-against-conah-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643588\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Eggington ready for it to \u2018go off\u2019 against Conah Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cDo you know what it is? People lose a few times and they retire, so when you lose a few times and you don\u2019t retire and you\u2019re still doing well, people just expect you to,\u201d Eggington said of calling it a day. \u201cI was talking to my son the other day, and he was talking about the boxing, and I was like, \u2018When you\u2019ve had as many fights as me and you\u2019ve been around as long as me, you don\u2019t get many opportunities. And he was like, \u2018Why?\u2019 I said, \u2018Because people retire.\u2019 He went, \u2018Well, why do they retire?\u2019 He didn\u2019t say anything crazy, but it made us think \u2013 it\u2019s the truth \u2013 why do they retire? You don\u2019t have to, just because it\u2019s a done thing because you\u2019ve lost two or three or four and you retire now. If anything, I\u2019ve broken that chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDo you know what it is? People lose a few times and they retire, so when you lose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,187365,311494,85],"class_list":["post-643588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-conah-walker","tag-sam-eggington","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643588","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=643588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}