{"id":765363,"date":"2026-06-27T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765363\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:00:16","slug":"see-you-soon-paddy-donovans-message-for-new-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765363\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;See You Soon&#8217; &#8211; Paddy Donovan&#8217;s Message for New World Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018See you soon,\u2019 was the simple message <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irish-boxing.com\/?s=paddy+Donovan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paddy Donovan <\/a>sent Liam Paro after the Australian became world champion this week. <\/p>\n<p>The Brisbane native broke Irish hearts when dethroning Lewis Crocker in Brisbane on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan was a more interested spectator of the IBF welterweight world title fight than most, as he was due a shot at the winner.<\/p>\n<p>So when collecting the strap, Paro also inherited the southpaw as his mandatory. <\/p>\n<p>The Aussie will most likely be handed a voluntary defence first, but if he retains his strap, he\u2019ll have to share the ring with the Andy Lee-trained Munster man.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking online directly after the win, Donovan let the champ know he was waiting. <\/p>\n<p>The former world title challenger was backing and hoping for a Crocker win, as it offered a chance to avenge two defeats as well as become a world champion.<\/p>\n<p>However, he\u2019s expressed his excitement at the prospect of meeting Paro. <\/p>\n<p>The pair had agreed to fight before and were scheduled to trade leather in a final eliminator earlier in the year. Illness ruled the Limerick favourite out. They are now back on a collision course and it remains to be seen when and where they may meet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018See you soon,\u2019 was the simple message Paddy Donovan sent Liam Paro after the Australian became world champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,25827,81165,25828,82],"class_list":["post-765363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lewis-crocker","tag-liam-paro","tag-paddy-donovan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765363","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=765363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}