{"id":861678,"date":"2026-08-20T05:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/861678\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:58:10","slug":"dudley-council-leader-patrick-harley-ready-for-charity-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/861678\/","title":{"rendered":"Dudley Council leader Patrick Harley ready for charity boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saleem said &#8220;at first I thought he was crazy, we&#8217;re 100 years old between us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, when Harley approached him he felt the opportunity was too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the leader of the council versus a community champion raising thousands of pounds,&#8221; Saleem added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of course, no fight of this magnitude would be right without the obligatory trash talk, with Saleem getting the words in first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Patrick Harley, when you see this right hand coming for you, It will not be the right hand of Shaz Saleem, no no, this right hand will be the hand of the community coming at you,&#8221; he warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harley meanwhile has been channelling his inner Muhammad Ali when asked for some words for his opponent, before accepting he may have to stick to the day job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His name is Saleem, but on the 21st he won&#8217;t look so mean, when I go in there and completely clean,&#8221; he countered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight will be staged at Dudley Town Hall, with proceeds going to the 2026 Mayoral Charities including Friends of Alfie Johnson and Brierley Hill Baby Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saleem said &#8220;at first I thought he was crazy, we&#8217;re 100 years old between us&#8221;. However, when Harley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-861678","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\/861678","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=861678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}