{"id":898392,"date":"2026-09-20T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898392\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:56:10","slug":"john-hedges-vs-pat-brown-manchester-born-brown-wins-british-and-commonwealth-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898392\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hedges vs Pat Brown: Manchester-born Brown wins British and Commonwealth titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Moses Itauma and Conor Benn both experienced losses when skipping the British title route and heading straight for world title glory, Brown said he wants to go on the &#8220;journey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Billam-Smith and Lawrence Okolie are two examples of those who have recently held the British cruiserweight title and gone on to win world honours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown now holds the British and Commonwealth titles, and could look to European title-holder Viddal Riley next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Riley, 29, last fought in April when he secured a unanimous points decision win over former world title challenger Mateusz Masternak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When speaking to BBC Sport on Wednesday, the view of Old Trafford &#8211; the home of his beloved Manchester United &#8211; sat in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not since 1993, when Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn&#8217;s unification bout ended in a draw, has the stadium hosted a boxing match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown said one day headlining at Old Trafford would mean more to him than belts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most importantly, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn sees the vision: &#8220;Pat Brown, world championship, Old Trafford. I see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown still has a long way to go if he&#8217;s to be mentioned in the same breath as former world champion Hatton, but he&#8217;s used his latest opportunity to make his mark. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Moses Itauma and Conor Benn both experienced losses when skipping the British title route and heading straight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-898392","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\/898392","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=898392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}