{"id":283777,"date":"2025-11-15T02:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283777\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:12:27","slug":"dean-furlong-ill-prove-title-talk-isnt-cheap-in-spain-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283777\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Furlong: I\u2019ll Prove Title Talk Isn\u2019t Cheap in Spain This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irish-boxing.com\/?s=Dean+Furlong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Gonzalez Furlong<\/a> is going to prove title talk isn\u2019t cheap by looking a million dollars in Spain this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The Wexford native steps up to eight rounds in Alicante on Saturday amidst strap chatter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Speedy\u2019 tops another bill in sunny climes when he faces Sergio Dos Santos over eight rounds \u2013 and plans to show he is title ready.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point in getting this 8-rounder in. There have been talks of titles already, and titles could be in the near future,\u201d he tells Irish-boxing.com.<\/p>\n<p>As well as stepping up in rounds, The Spain based Wexford man steps up in level of opponent. His Brazilian foe comes with a winning record, and his record suggests he packs a punch. The 37-year-old \u2018Titian\u2019 has 11 knockouts to his name, six of which came in the first round. <\/p>\n<p>Furlong is excited by the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is an experienced opponent with a good record and will only add to my resume,\u201d he adds before reminding people he can punch too. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have that pop in my punch, so if I catch him right, it will come but the main thing is a good performance. I predict a good performance and a great night of boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the eight-round nature of the fight, he added: \u201cThis is my first 8-round fight, but I\u2019ve been in camp preparing since my last fight. I couldn\u2019t have had a better run-up to it. I\u2019ve had longer runs, more sets of sprint,s and more rounds. Just more of everything in general.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dean Gonzalez Furlong is going to prove title talk isn\u2019t cheap by looking a million dollars in Spain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,128974,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-283777","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-dean-gonzalez-furlong","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283777","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=283777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}