{"id":630314,"date":"2026-04-26T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:28:08","slug":"shane-mcguigan-believes-sadistic-chris-billam-smith-is-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630314\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane McGuigan believes \u2018sadistic\u2019 Chris Billam-Smith is improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men\u2019s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular \u201cBoxing Life Stories\u201d podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including \u201cDamage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing\u201d (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), \u201cWarrior: A Champion\u2019s Search for His Identity\u201d (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and \u201cThe Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing\u2019s Wastelands.\u201d You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,48955,49,48,101350,10359,235942,104530,17170,235941,3633,82,5057,150960],"class_list":{"0":"post-630314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-brandon-glanton","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-chris-billam-smith","13":"tag-dana-white","14":"tag-jai-opetai","15":"tag-nick-khan","16":"tag-ryan-rozicki","17":"tag-shane-mcguigan","18":"tag-sky-sports","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-turki-alalshikh","21":"tag-zuffa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630314","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=630314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}