Michael Conlan is employing a “what will be, will be” approach to the remainder of his career but says he is in a “good place” as he prepares to take on England’s Jack Bateson in Dublin on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Belfast featherweight began his professional career with dreams of becoming a multi-weight world champion, but he has yet to scale the mountain with two previous title attempts falling short.<\/p>\n
The brashness of youth is now giving way to a more measured approach, with Conlan seemingly content with whatever may come his way.<\/p>\n
“I’m at peace with everything and for whatever happens on Friday night,” the 33-year-old told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n
“What will be, will be. If I were to lose, then that’s it [career] done, but if I win then I’m moving on towards a world title. I’ve got to give everything I can and I’m willing to do that.<\/p>\n
“You hear me now say things like ‘it’s the last chance saloon’ and ‘if I don’t win a world title then so be it, but if I do then fantastic’.<\/p>\n
“These are things I’ve come to terms with, but if you have the opportunity, then take it with both hands.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Conlan is employing a “what will be, will be” approach to the remainder of his career but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-112278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}