{"id":886460,"date":"2026-09-10T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886460\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T03:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:56:19","slug":"jaylen-brown-makes-boxing-debut-in-trending-video-from-nigeria-after-76ers-trade-ahead-of-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886460\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown Makes Boxing Debut in Trending Video From Nigeria After 76ers Trade Ahead of NBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Jaylen Brown&#8217;s very interesting summer now includes&#8230; boxing?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Yeah, boxing. The Philadelphia 76ers star made his sweet science debut on Wednesday in Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">While this may appear to be coming out of left field, Brown has trained in Muay Thai and spoken about having a potential combat sport career after he&#8217;s done with the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;To be honest, I&#8217;ve toyed with this and I&#8217;ve talked to some people,&#8221; he <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47939125\/celtics-jaylen-brown-toying-idea-ufc-boxing-nba\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters<\/a> in February. &#8220;Maybe post part of my career, I&#8217;d love to partake in something like UFC or even boxing. I&#8217;ve talked to Dana White about some stuff, but we&#8217;ll see as things go on. We&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">For now, the Sixers are hoping he can pair with LeBron James, Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe to help end a long title drought. But it&#8217;s clear Brown has a combat sports itch he intends to scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown&#8217;s very interesting summer now includes&#8230; boxing? Yeah, boxing. The Philadelphia 76ers star made his sweet science&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-886460","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\/886460","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=886460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}