{"id":784412,"date":"2026-07-07T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784412\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:33:09","slug":"british-army-end-boxing-season-with-exciting-night-of-american-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784412\/","title":{"rendered":"British Army end boxing season with exciting night of American action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                      <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/04072026 British Army boxing pose after fixture v New York Credit British Army Boxing Association.jp.jpeg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"4072026 British Army boxing pose after fixture v New York Credit British Army Boxing Association.jpg\"\/>The team took on a New York City Select team to celebrate the American Independence Day (Picture: British Army Boxing Association)<\/p>\n<p>The British Army boxing team finished off the 2025\/26 season with a 4-4 draw against a New York City select team.<\/p>\n<p>The Army travelled to the &#8216;Big Apple&#8217; for a night of action to celebrate American Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>It also served as head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/services\/army\/handing-over-reins-sergeant-liam-jones-takes-over-army-boxings-new-head-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergeant Chez Nihell&#8217;s final act with the team before Sergeant Liam Jones takes over the reins.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York team included a number of top American amateur talents and a back-and-forth competition took place.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-4 draw was an &#8220;outstanding evening of competitive boxing&#8221; said the Army.<\/p>\n<p>          Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/themes\/custom\/forcesnet_2020\/forcesnet_retheme\/assets\/dist\/images\/join-newsletter.svg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          WatchUsOn<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"heading--ally-line__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/themes\/custom\/forcesnet_2020\/forcesnet_retheme\/assets\/dist\/images\/watch-us-youtube.svg\" width=\"120\" height=\"28\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                RAF bases face Russian drone spy threat\ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>                2 Rifles win maiden Army Rugby Sevens\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>                Historic strike drone launch for Royal Navy\ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team took on a New York City Select team to celebrate the American Independence Day (Picture: British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-784412","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\/784412","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=784412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}