{"id":846239,"date":"2026-08-04T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846239\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:22:09","slug":"promotional-tug-of-war-as-jai-opetaia-and-david-benavidez-jostle-over-noel-mikaelian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846239\/","title":{"rendered":"Promotional tug of war as Jai Opetaia and David Benavidez jostle over Noel Mikaelian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-sm text-zinc-400 font-medium leading-relaxed line-clamp-3 group-hover:text-zinc-200 hover:transition-colors hover:duration-150\">Pat Brown joins BoxingScene from his old amateur gym, Sale West ABC, ahead of his British title fight with John Hedges. Brown reflects on his roots at the gym before discussing his upcoming domestic clash, the cruiserweight division, David Benavidez&#8217;s move up in weight and the future of the sport. He also gives his blunt assessment of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury following their recent performances, explains why he believes both are past their best and predicts Fury to beat Joshua when they finally meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Brown joins BoxingScene from his old amateur gym, Sale West ABC, ahead of his British title fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,13038,43137,126019,82],"class_list":["post-846239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-david-benavidez","tag-jai-opetaia","tag-noel-mikaelian","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846239","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=846239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}