{"id":855887,"date":"2026-08-12T23:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855887\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:12:15","slug":"ex-wwe-star-to-make-boxing-debut-five-years-after-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855887\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-WWE Star To Make Boxing Debut Five Years After Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former WWE performer Patrick Clark, known as Velveteen Dream, will make his professional boxing debut on Aug. 29, underscoring a move from sports entertainment to sanctioned combat. He is scheduled to fight podcast host Ryan Pownall in a cruiserweight bout at Duel: Arena 1 at the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida. The matchup arrives 15 months after Clark campaigned for a 2025 WWE return, urging petitions to Paul &#8220;Triple H&#8221; Levesque and Shawn Michaels. Clark was released by WWE in May 2021 after allegations of inappropriate contact with minors surfaced in 2020; he denied the accusations, and Levesque said WWE found no evidence. He has not been charged. Clark later wrestled sporadically and was arrested in Florida in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former WWE performer Patrick Clark, known as Velveteen Dream, will make his professional boxing debut on Aug. 29,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,297385,185303,297708,134929,82,1276,297709],"class_list":["post-855887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-patrick-clark","tag-professional-boxing-debut","tag-ryan-pownall","tag-shawn-michaels","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-underscoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855887","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=855887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}