{"id":538396,"date":"2026-03-15T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:25:11","slug":"pierce-oleary-reveals-he-nearly-quit-boxing-after-biggest-night-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538396\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce O&#8217;Leary reveals he nearly quit boxing after biggest night to date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cI was devastated it ended that way,\u201d Hughes said on social media. \u201cThought I was doing okay, following the plan, move, because I knew we were up against it being at the weight above, felt okay and I think it was four or five punches that changed the fight. The swelling has come from underneath, lost my balance a little bit, got caught in the ear, my ear\u2019s popped\u2026 We rolled the dice, and it didn\u2019t pay off. We gambled and it didn\u2019t pay off.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI was devastated it ended that way,\u201d Hughes said on social media. \u201cThought I was doing okay, following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[210442,703,711,710,49,48,138150,210441,82],"class_list":["post-538396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-adam-olaniyan","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-maxi-hughes","tag-pierce-oleary","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538396","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=538396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}