{"id":672477,"date":"2026-05-15T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672477\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:47:12","slug":"paddy-donovan-eager-to-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-his-mentor-andy-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672477\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Donovan eager to follow in the footsteps of his mentor Andy Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cBut, yeah, listen, he\u2019s obviously a fantastic fighter and even in body sparring, the both of us put out some of our hidden moves from our locker, I guess. But we\u2019re so happy and it\u2019s great to be learning off each other.\u201d<br \/>And they all sit under the learning tree of Lee, the Limerick southpaw who delivered many thrills and spills in his own championship career. Lee was 35-3-1 (24 KOs) and, by the time he retired in 2017, he had created a knockout highlight reel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut, yeah, listen, he\u2019s obviously a fantastic fighter and even in body sparring, the both of us put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,128052,30029,85],"class_list":["post-672477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-karen-chukhadzhian","tag-paddy-donovan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672477","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=672477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}