{"id":880984,"date":"2026-09-05T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880984\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:56:13","slug":"lawson-folly-wins-boxing-debut-in-timaru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880984\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawson Folly wins boxing debut in Timaru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawson Folly has made a winning start to his boxing career in Timaru.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old, from Victory Boxing, stepped out in the 85kg youth section and hung tough over the three rounds to beat local rival Paiaka Taha.<\/p>\n<p>Ten-year-old Toby Fleming also made the trip to the Timaru Boxing Association tournament to contest the 46kg mini cadet class over three, one and a half minute, rounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile he didn\u2019t win, Toby took good learnings from the bout,\u201d says Victory Boxing head coach Sam Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>The Nelson community gym is building up a sizeable stable of young boxers wanting to compete in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 10 to 15 in training. Boxing is my jam and I am loving it at Victory,\u201d declares Sam, who originally came from a Muay Thai martial arts background.<\/p>\n<p>The next goal for several of the local fighters is the Papanui Boxing Club\u2019s Heavy Hitters tournament on Saturday, while the more experienced Sateki Abbot-Havili plans to head to the national championships in Whanganui, at the end of the month, for the 80kg elite men\u2019s division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawson Folly has made a winning start to his boxing career in Timaru. The 17-year-old, from Victory Boxing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-880984","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\/880984","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=880984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}