{"id":334389,"date":"2025-12-09T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:52:08","slug":"levi-batchelor-welsh-bantamweight-ready-to-face-rayan-balbali-at-pfl-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334389\/","title":{"rendered":"Levi Batchelor: Welsh bantamweight ready to face Rayan Balbali at PFL Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as aiming to make another statement in the cage, Batchelor has ambitions beyond his own career and hopes to help bring a PFL event to Wales in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to be that guy to bring the PFL back to Wales,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we&#8217;re more than capable of having a big show here. There are multiple venues available, and I want to give myself the opportunity to do that \u2014 but I also want to give other fighters in Wales the opportunity to perform on a big stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Undefeated in his pro career at 2-0, Batchelor says he is focused on steady, sustainable progress as he climbs the PFL ranks, taking inspiration from the Welsh fighters who have succeeded on the world stage before him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I take this one step at a time,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to catapult myself to the top, and I&#8217;m not looking to sit on the sidelines either. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just want to keep getting a little bit better every day \u2014 and eventually you&#8217;ll see me on top.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as aiming to make another statement in the cage, Batchelor has ambitions beyond his own career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-334389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334389","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=334389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}