{"id":278372,"date":"2025-11-12T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278372\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:03:09","slug":"brad-pauls-ready-for-massive-opportunity-on-moses-itauma-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278372\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pauls ready for &#8216;massive opportunity&#8217; on Moses Itauma undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brad Pauls is looking forward to a &#8220;massive opportunity&#8221; after being being pitted against WBO global middleweight champion Shakiel Thompson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cevwze1qge9o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former British middleweight champion<\/a> will face the unbeaten Thompson from Sheffield in Manchester on 26 January on the undercard of Moses Itauma&#8217;s fight with Jermaine Franklin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means Pauls&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy0yxd5953xo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planned fight in Bristol<\/a> later this month has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cornish boxer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cjr28j54121o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost his Lonsdale belt to Denzel Bentley<\/a> last December but has fought once since then, beating Panamanian journeyman Omir Rodriguez in Torquay in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a massive opportunity which will change my life, will get me a world ranking and it&#8217;s back on a Queensbury show,&#8221; Pauls said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brad_pauls\/status\/1988281929670840371?s=20\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">in a video on X., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The sensible thing to do after speaking to my team is to jump off the show on 22 November in Bristol, just in case I get injured or get cut and lose the opportunity for the massive fight in Manchester.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Pauls is looking forward to a &#8220;massive opportunity&#8221; after being being pitted against WBO global middleweight champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-278372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}