{"id":322335,"date":"2025-12-03T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:40:07","slug":"is-sparring-boxings-secret-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322335\/","title":{"rendered":"Is sparring boxing\u2019s secret killer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">For context, Canadian cruiserweight contender Ryan Rozicki divulged the amount that he will spar before a fight. \u201cIt really depends on the fight and the notice but, for my last fight [a 12-round draw with Yamil Peralta in 2024], I did eight-to-10 rounds, three times a week,\u201d he said. The 30-year-old\u2019s camp lasted eight weeks \u2013 meaning he engaged in up to 240 rounds of sparring. He\u2019s had 22 fights. Should he have prepared in the same way for each bout, that\u2019s more than 5,000 rounds of sparring \u2013 and that\u2019s before we get into the mathematics of his amateur career. It shouldn\u2019t be a stretch, then, to estimate how many rounds of sparring a more experienced competitor will have engaged in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For context, Canadian cruiserweight contender Ryan Rozicki divulged the amount that he will spar before a fight. \u201cIt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,710,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-322335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxingscene","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322335","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=322335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}