{"id":308307,"date":"2025-11-26T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308307\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:56:16","slug":"sam-eggington-earns-lifetime-achievement-award-but-says-hes-not-done-fighting-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308307\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Eggington earns Lifetime Achievement Award but says he\u2019s not done fighting yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Eggington is unsure how to take his latest accolade \u2014 but is sure he wants to fight again.<\/p>\n<p>The WBC will be represented in Cannock on Thursday, November 27 when promoter Scott Murray stages his latest Excelsior Sporting Club fight night in Bar Sport\u2019s Premier Suite. They will be there to hand Eggington a Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p>It is in recognition of a 45-fight pro career that includes winning British, Commonwealth, European, IBO world and WBC Silver belts at super-welterweight and middleweight.<\/p>\n<p>His defence of the WBC Silver middleweight title against Bilal Jkitou in Coventry in 2021 was named fight of the year by the British Boxing Board of Control.<\/p>\n<p>Eggington threw a staggering 1,317 punches at the Frenchman in the 12-round fight \u2013 an average of 109 per round \u2013 to win a split decision in front of the Channel Five cameras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/sport\/25106384.lee-cutler-beaten-sam-eggington-unanimous-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Eggington hasn\u2019t fought since beating Lee Cutler in April<\/a> and the 32 year old admits news of his award left him with mixed emotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a good thing or a bad thing. I\u2019m happy to get it, but I don\u2019t know if they are trying to tell me I\u2019m old and past it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pro since 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/sam-eggington-responds-after-lee-cutlers-team-lodge-wbc-appeal-over-technical-decision-defeat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eggington looked far from finished when besting Cutler on a technical points decision<\/a>, capturing the WBC International Silver super-welterweight championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t just beat him, I won a belt as well and I thought people would want it. But I haven\u2019t had any offers. It\u2019s late in my career and I want to be active, but there\u2019s nothing I can do if people don\u2019t want to fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t help myself. I\u2019m not big on social media, I don\u2019t run my mouth off and I don\u2019t scratch people\u2019s backs. That doesn\u2019t help. But I do feel I do my job well \u2013 when I get the chance. I know I\u2019ve had a good career so I can\u2019t moan too much. I just want to fight sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his campaign being honoured in its current state, \u2018The Savage\u2019 wants fans to know that it isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been telling me I\u2019m finished since I was 25. I just have to keep proving people wrong. My bubble hasn\u2019t burst yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Eggington is unsure how to take his latest accolade \u2014 but is sure he wants to fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-308307","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\/308307","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=308307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}