{"id":463911,"date":"2026-02-09T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463911\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:09:08","slug":"nieky-holzkenk-kickboxing-legend-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463911\/","title":{"rendered":"Nieky Holzkenk, Kickboxing Legend, Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/nieky-holzken\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nieky Holzken<\/a> announced his retirement from professional kickboxing and boxing on Monday via Instagram, ending one of combat sports&#8217; most accomplished careers. The Dutch striker, who amassed over 150 fights and captured 7 world titles in kickboxing, revealed the decision came after extensive reflection on his future in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a lot of reflection, I&#8217;ve made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I am stepping away from my active career,&#8221; Holzken posted on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nieky Holzken announced his retirement from professional kickboxing and boxing on Monday via Instagram, ending one of combat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,189493,82],"class_list":["post-463911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-nieky-holzken","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463911","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=463911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}