{"id":761685,"date":"2026-06-26T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761685\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:11:08","slug":"handing-over-the-reins-sergeant-liam-jones-takes-over-as-army-boxings-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761685\/","title":{"rendered":"Handing over the reins: Sergeant Liam Jones takes over as Army boxing&#8217;s new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Army Boxing Association have announced that Sergeant Liam Jones will take charge of the team as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Sergeant Chez Nihell, who oversaw a win over the Bahrain Royal Guard in November before the RAF won their first Inter Services title in 54 years in March.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Jones represents the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and has supported the Army Boxing Team as an Assistant Coach in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he took on the role of head coach for the Army&#8217;s development team and worked with some of the best up-and-coming fighters in the service.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also represented the Army in the ring and coached the REME team.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Nihell&#8217;s final duties as head coach see him take an Army team to the USA for a British Army Invasion battle against a New York Select team on 3 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British Army Boxing Association have announced that Sergeant Liam Jones will take charge of the team as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-761685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761685","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=761685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}