{"id":391690,"date":"2026-01-06T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:17:09","slug":"five-years-after-loss-to-one-big-baby-kingsley-ibeh-takes-on-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391690\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years after loss to one Big Baby, Kingsley Ibeh takes on another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cKingsley isn\u2019t the same fighter who fought Anderson at MGM Grand,\u201d Whit Haydon, a matchmaker for Toro Promotions, said in the press release. \u201cIbeh took a tough fight. The media and fans are always complaining about fighters picking and choosing their handpicked opponents, but when a fighter takes a tough fight like Kingsley did and loses, you get punished into a long rebuild. Ibeh was relatively new to boxing [&#8230;] he was a football player. It took five long years for him to get here, and Ibeh\u2019s plan is to leave the Big Apple as a star.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cKingsley isn\u2019t the same fighter who fought Anderson at MGM Grand,\u201d Whit Haydon, a matchmaker for Toro Promotions,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-391690","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\/391690","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=391690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}