{"id":896536,"date":"2026-09-18T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896536\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:44:16","slug":"john-hedges-vs-pat-brown-brown-targets-british-title-and-famous-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896536\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hedges vs Pat Brown: Brown targets British title and famous nights"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Matchroom hastily arranged an event to officially announce Brown’s signing in 2024<\/a>, around 300 fans turned out to catch a glimpse of the highly touted amateur.<\/p>\n

But persuading 2,000 people to sit in a chilly Planet Ice in Altrincham on a Friday night may be an even better example of Brown’s potential drawing power.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s fight was originally scheduled to take place there too but support from his fanbase meant a larger venue was required. <\/p>\n

“Altrincham will always have a place in my heart, especially with people moaning how cold it is in there,” Brown said. <\/p>\n

“The only downfall are the changing rooms are quite small. I’m quite tall and the ceiling is a bit low, so it’ll be nice to be in a big, open changing room.<\/p>\n

“I used to go to that ice rink when I was a kid. To think I’ve actually headlined there on my debut \u2013 I can look and smile.”<\/p>\n

Brown, who has stopped all six of his opponents with four of his wins coming inside two rounds, has fast established himself as a prospect. He is also aware that, with Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury in the twilight of their careers, British boxing is craving its next star. <\/p>\n

“It’s nice, but I never look at it and crave it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“People will either like me or they won’t. I’m never going to change, so if it comes and the country is getting behind me, that’s brilliant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Matchroom hastily arranged an event to officially announce Brown’s signing in 2024, around 300 fans turned out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-896536","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\/896536","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=896536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}