{"id":850001,"date":"2026-08-08T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850001\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:30:09","slug":"paulie-malignaggi-an-etinosa-oliha-win-over-aaron-mckenna-could-revive-italian-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850001\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulie Malignaggi: an Etinosa Oliha win over Aaron McKenna could revive Italian boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With a victory against Italy\u2019s Etinosa Oliha on Saturday, August 8, Irish middleweight Aaron McKenna looks poised to induce a wave of nationalist fighting pride for his Irish homeland, but ProBoxTV\u2019s own Paulie Malignaggi says an Oliha victory could trigger the very same for Italian boxing fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">IBF No. 2-ranked Oliha, 22-0 (10 KOs), of Turin Italy, and IBF No. 3-ranked middleweight McKenna, 20-0 (10 KOs) of Monaghan, Ireland, will meet for the vacant IBF middleweight in the 12-round main event of Saturday\u2019s Zuffa Boxing 10 broadcast, live on Paramount+ and SKY (2:00 pm EDT\/7:00 pm BST) from Dublin, Ireland\u2019s 3Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a victory against Italy\u2019s Etinosa Oliha on Saturday, August 8, Irish middleweight Aaron McKenna looks poised to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[259753,703,711,710,49,48,259754,82],"class_list":["post-850001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-aaron-mckenna","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-etinosa-oliha","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850001","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=850001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}