{"id":77216,"date":"2025-08-17T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77216\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:20:07","slug":"craig-spider-richards-ready-for-big-fights-eyes-top-light-heavyweight-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77216\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig \u201cSpider\u201d Richards Ready for Big Fights, Eyes Top Light-Heavyweight Contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cVery good fight,\u201d said Richards. \u201cIt\u2019s a big step up for Yarde. Benavidez, monster in his own right at the weight; he\u2019s tall; he overwhelms his fighters with work rate; people say about his last two performances he didn\u2019t get a stoppage at light heavyweight, but if we\u2019re looking at the guys he\u2019s in there with, [David] Morrell and [Oleksandr] Gvozdyk, we all know [Gvozdyk] gave Beterbiev his hardest fight and he put Adonis Stevenson in a coma to win the WBC title, so we know he\u2019s no joke, and Benavidez walked through him as well, so we know Benavidez isn\u2019t a joke. So it\u2019s a big step up for Yarde.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cVery good fight,\u201d said Richards. \u201cIt\u2019s a big step up for Yarde. Benavidez, monster in his own right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,46962,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-77216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-craig-richards","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77216","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=77216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}