{"id":135919,"date":"2025-09-14T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135919\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:02:09","slug":"molly-mccann-former-ufc-star-starts-professional-boxing-career-with-tko-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135919\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly McCann: Former UFC star starts professional boxing career with TKO win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before Agyarko&#8217;s win, Tyrone McKenna also triumphed in his home city as he stopped Dylan Moran for the second time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a repeat of their welterweight contest from last year, a superb attack from McKenna in the seventh dropped the Waterford man, and while he briefly returned to his feet, it was not long before the referee stopped the fight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the build-up, 35-year-old McKenna suggested that Saturday&#8217;s appearance at Windsor Park could be the final fight of his career, but he indicated a willingness to fight on in the immediate aftermath of his 25th win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a war. I wanted a war and he brought it more than I thought,&#8221; said McKenna. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt fresh so I knew I could take my time. He wasn&#8217;t hurting me but I was hurting him. He didn&#8217;t have power and everything I threw was doing damage, so that was coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m never, ever retiring, I love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier in the night, Pat Brown beat Austine Nnamdi in a cruiserweight contest, Matthew Boreland beat Ruadhan Farrell, Caine Singh overcame Donagh Keary and Aaron Bowen defeated Carlos Miguel Ronner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Agyarko&#8217;s win, Tyrone McKenna also triumphed in his home city as he stopped Dylan Moran for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-135919","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\/135919","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=135919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}