{"id":311231,"date":"2025-11-27T23:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311231\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T23:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:47:20","slug":"chicago-high-school-english-teacher-to-make-professional-boxing-debut-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311231\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago high school English teacher to make professional boxing debut this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He spends his weekdays in Chicago teaching Shakespeare and grammar, but this weekend Hyde Park Academy English teacher Brendan Lally is stepping into the ring for his professional boxing debut.<\/p>\n<p>His opponent is Jimuel Pacquiao, the son of legendary boxer Manny Pacquiao, who also will be making his professional boxing debut.<\/p>\n<p>Lally, a former University of Illinois collegiate boxing champion, said even though he hasn&#8217;t competitively boxed in a while, he couldn&#8217;t pass up the opportunity when a former coach called him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew if I passed up this opportunity to do something so incredible, the coolest thing in the world, to me, on the coolest stage possible, I knew I would regret it,&#8221; Lally said.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s not in the classroom, Lally helps coach fighters at Dark Horse Gym in Chicago. He&#8217;ll be fighting Pacquiao on Saturday at the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, California.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He spends his weekdays in Chicago teaching Shakespeare and grammar, but this weekend Hyde Park Academy English teacher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,6681,139003,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-311231","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-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-public-schools","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311231","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=311231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}