{"id":120643,"date":"2025-09-07T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120643\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:15:11","slug":"lewis-crocker-fight-paddy-donovan-and-i-have-sparred-and-ive-fought-belfast-man-here-are-my-thoughts-says-tyrone-mckenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120643\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Crocker fight: Paddy Donovan and I have sparred, and I&#8217;ve fought Belfast man&#8230; here are my thoughts, says Tyrone McKenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lewis Crocker and Tyrone McKenna after their 2023 battle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8a1cfb0c-09cd-4338-b182-1711b3163afa.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lewis Crocker and Tyrone McKenna after their 2023 battle<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Belfast boxer Tyrone McKenna has shared the ring with Lewis Crocker and sparred countless rounds with Paddy Donovan, so he is better qualified than most to give his opinion on Saturday\u2019s big Windsor Park rematch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the first bout, Donovan outclassed the home fighter at the SSE Arena but was disqualified for hitting after the bell. Now, with the IBF world title belt on the line in the rematch, McKenna thinks we will see a much better Crocker this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Crocker and Tyrone McKenna after their 2023 battle Belfast boxer Tyrone McKenna has shared the ring with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,57554,57555,101,56,54,55,7462],"class_list":["post-120643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-national-stadium-at-windsor-park","tag-south-belfast-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-belfast-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120643","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=120643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}