{"id":291491,"date":"2025-11-18T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291491\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:10:11","slug":"frank-warren-brad-pauls-and-shakiel-thompson-winner-to-get-big-title-shot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291491\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Warren: Brad Pauls and Shakiel Thompson winner to get ‘big title shot’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pauls, 32, has fought once since losing his British middleweight title to Denzel Bentley last December,<\/a> beating Panamanian journeyman Omir Rodriguez in Torquay in May.<\/p>\n

He will hope to recreate the form that saw him beat Nathan Heaney to win his Lonsdale belt in July 2024,<\/a> having drawn with the Stoke fighter four months earlier. <\/p>\n

“I have my own ambition, I’d love to get my British title back and winning a fight like this opens all sorts of doors,” Pauls said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think loads of people are rushing to fight Shakiel, but it doesn’t bother me.<\/p>\n

“I’d fight absolutely anyone, especially with so much to gain.<\/p>\n

“I think the styles will gel well. I haven’t seen too much of Shakiel, but I know obviously he’s a decent fighter, and for me, you’ll just get the same as always, 100% everything I’ve got.”<\/p>\n

Thompson, 28, has won all 15 of his professional fights, 11 by knockout. <\/p>\n

He has held the IBF European and WBO Global middleweight titles and has his sights set on becoming the first man to stop Pauls.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been putting a lot of hard work in behind the scenes and now it’s time to let everyone see what it is I can do on the big stage,” Thompson said.<\/p>\n

“It’s an honour to be fighting Brad Pauls, a former British champion, but on January 24th you’re going to see something spectacular.<\/p>\n

“I’m just better than him in every single department. I’m a better boxer. I’m better on the inside, outside. I just believe everything I do is better than what Brad Pauls does.<\/p>\n

“He’s got experience, but that isn’t going to matter on the night.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauls, 32, has fought once since losing his British middleweight title to Denzel Bentley last December, beating Panamanian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-291491","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\/291491","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=291491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}