{"id":834402,"date":"2026-07-30T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834402\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:56:09","slug":"craig-obrien-promise-amazing-performance-to-make-ben-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834402\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig O&#8217;Brien Promise Amazing Performance to Make Ben Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irish-boxing.com\/?s=Craig+O%27Brien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig O\u2019Brien<\/a> believes an amazing performance can deliver an amazing victory over an amazing fighter on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubliner was full of praise for unbeaten English prospect Ben Fail ahead of their WBA Continental Super Welterweight title fight at the 3Arena, but insists respect won\u2019t stop him from pulling off one of the biggest wins of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Having completed what he describes as an outstanding training camp, \u2018The Iron\u2019 says everything is in place to hand the Northampton fighter his first professional defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve watched Ben. He\u2019s an amazing fighter,\u201d O\u2019Brien said at the final press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel I\u2019m an amazing fighter and I feel we\u2019re going to put on a cracker for you on Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have respect for anyone that gets in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe seems a great kid and a great fighter. I know I\u2019m the same, and I know I can beat him on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked for his prediction, the likeable Dubliner didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see nothing but a win on Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fighting in front of his home fans only adds to the motivation.<\/p>\n<p>With a packed Dublin crowd expected inside the 3Arena, the Celtic Warrior Gym fighter is eager to reward those backing him with the performance of his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the plan,\u201d smiled the two time BUI Celtic champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done everything we can. We\u2019ve got the outfit ready, we\u2019ve got the boots ready. We\u2019re moving in there, slipping and moving on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see nothing but a win and an amazing fight,\u201d he adds before stating he\u2019s ready to go now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be here. First of all, shout out to Pierce for bringing big-time boxing back to Dublin. It\u2019s great to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve given an eight-week, nine-week camp and put everything into it. I\u2019m just ready to fight now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish it was Saturday night at 7pm because I just want to go now. Weight\u2019s good. Everything\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig O\u2019Brien believes an amazing performance can deliver an amazing victory over an amazing fighter on Saturday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-834402","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\/834402","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=834402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}