{"id":546134,"date":"2026-03-19T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546134\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:50:09","slug":"bruce-carrington-questions-espinosa-boogeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546134\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Carrington Questions Espinosa \u201cBoogeyman\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add EBoxing News 24as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqLAgKIiZDQklTRmdnTWFoSUtFR0p2ZUdsdVoyNWxkM015TkM1amIyMG9BQVAB?ceid=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow Boxing News 24 on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow you\u2019re the boogeyman when I\u2019m the one chasing the boogeyman,\u201d Carrington said to Fight Hub TV, questioning the narrative around Espinosa.<\/p>\n<p>The unbeaten WBC 126-lb champion doesn\u2019t dismiss Espinosa as a fighter. He acknowledged the reasons why some rate him highly, pointing to his height and the problems that style can bring over 12 rounds. Carrington even said he became a fan after watching Espinosa earlier in his rise, which adds a layer of respect to the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he isn\u2019t treating that difficulty as something that separates Espinosa from the rest of the division. Carrington\u2019s view stays simple. Good fighter, tough night, but not something that puts him outside the pack.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been asking for that fight since 2023, and from his perspective, that alone challenges the idea that Rafael is being avoided. If anything, Carrington sees it the other way around. A dangerous opponent doesn\u2019t become off-limits just because people start attaching labels to him.<\/p>\n<p>The broader message stays consistent with how Carrington has been talking since picking up the WBC belt. He believes the division should move toward the top fights, and Espinosa is part of that group. Not someone to avoid, but someone to face.<\/p>\n<p>Carrington sounds like a fighter who sees the \u201cboogeyman\u201d tag as something created outside the ring, not proven inside it, and he wants the chance to prove it himself.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Reynolds is a boxing analyst covering major fights and career turning points, with a focus on performance, trajectory, and long-term implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHow you\u2019re the boogeyman when I\u2019m the one chasing the boogeyman,\u201d Carrington said to Fight Hub TV, questioning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-546134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546134","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=546134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}