{"id":38614,"date":"2025-08-01T05:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38614\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:08:08","slug":"boxing-waikato-fighter-alex-mukuka-to-take-on-dominic-reed-in-taupo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38614\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Waikato fighter Alex Mukuka to take on Dominic Reed in Taup\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Benjamin Watt<\/p>\n

Waikato Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n

1 Aug, 2025 05:03 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n

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Zep Clarke-Lynn, Raymond Richards, Alex Mukuka and Martin Sichivula after the fight against Ross Malthus in May.<\/p>\n

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Matamata fighter Alex Mukuka will return to the professional boxing ring in October.<\/p>\n

The Commonwealth Games representative will fight Christchurch\u2019s Dominic Reed in Taup\u014d.<\/p>\n

\n Mukuka, a four-time New Zealand national amateur champion, was last in the ring in May when he defeated Whang\u0101rei\u2019s Ross Malthus by unanimous decision in Te
\n Awamutu.\n <\/p>\n

Mukuka previously said his ultimate goal was to become a world champion, but before that can happen he has a long road ahead of him, including winning a New Zealand title and a major regional title from one of the four main sanctioning bodies.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Reed is a Muay Thai world champion (ISKA World Muay Thai Super Featherweight) and a veteran of martial arts with over 60 fights across various combat sports codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Benjamin Watt Waikato Herald\u00b7 1 Aug, 2025 05:03 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[7661,703,49,48,28057,1136,2000,28060,28056,13257,1394,28061,28058,695,1135,82,11353,28059,696,24162,3904],"class_list":["post-38614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-alex","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dominic","tag-fighter","tag-in","tag-matamata","tag-mukuka","tag-october","tag-on","tag-professional","tag-reed","tag-return","tag-ring","tag-sports","tag-take","tag-taup","tag-to","tag-waikato","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614","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=38614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}