{"id":841714,"date":"2026-08-03T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:26:09","slug":"irish-boxer-lee-reeves-in-stable-but-in-critical-condition-after-suffering-devastating-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841714\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish boxer Lee Reeves in stable but in critical condition after suffering devastating KO &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Reeves, 31-year-old Irish boxer, was rushed to a hospital after suffering a knockout during a boxing match against Gary Cully in Dublin. The bout for the BUI Celtic super-lightweight reached the tenth round when Cully knocked Reeves down with a direct blow to the face. Unconscious, he was taken to a hospital and is currently in &#8220;critical but stable condition&#8221;, according to a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will know more in the coming days, and our thoughts and prayers remain with Lee and his family&#8221;, the Reeves&#8217; spokesperson said (via BBC). Cully, who was the favourite for the fight, said that Reeves &#8220;came in there as a big underdog after fighting relatively at a lower level up until now&#8221; but was surprised with he level, &#8220;he really showed that he can operate at a higher level. Huge credit to him&#8221; and said that his prayers and thoughts were with him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCNews24\/status\/2083858093922824531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<p>Reeves, inspired by the great Irish boxer Katie Taylor, had 18 boxing fights, winning 16, 11 by KO, and losing 2.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1755333-4962313\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/23\/irishboxerlee_4962313b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/23\/irishboxerlee_4962313_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1755333','4962313',false,'802a4e7826fc7c9de160e911165f335e');\" height=\"431\" alt=\"Irish boxer Lee Reeves in stable but in critical condition after suffering devastating KO\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-b8e8b2f5bcd818a1cbcf251f-=\"\"\/>katatonia82 \/ Shutterstock<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Reeves, 31-year-old Irish boxer, was rushed to a hospital after suffering a knockout during a boxing match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-841714","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\/841714","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=841714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}