{"id":697737,"date":"2026-05-27T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697737\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:15:12","slug":"hasim-rahman-53-to-annouce-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697737\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasim Rahman, 53, to annouce a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasim Rahman, 53, will Wednesday announce a comeback that he hopes will lead to him becoming the oldest world heavyweight champion in history.<\/p>\n<p>Rahman, 50-9-2 (41 KOs), hasn&#8217;t fought since 2014 when he was outpointed over three rounds by Anthony Nansen during the Super 8 Heavyweight Tournament staged in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear, however, that &#8216;The Rock&#8221; had seen better days long before that. He was stopped in two rounds by Alexander Povetkin in 2012, four years after being clocked in seven by Wladimir Klitschko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hasim Rahman, 53, will Wednesday announce a comeback that he hopes will lead to him becoming the oldest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,55138,340133,85],"class_list":["post-697737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-comeback","tag-hasim-rahman","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697737","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=697737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}