{"id":166892,"date":"2025-09-28T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:01:08","slug":"new-champion-abass-baraou-is-finally-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166892\/","title":{"rendered":"New champion Abass Baraou is finally \u2018in the room\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">It is not unthinkable that Baraou, who has fought mostly out of Europe, may yet be described similarly regardless of his growing profile, status and leverage. The centre of the junior-middleweight universe remains in the US and Baraou \u2013 a proven fighter without the reputation of fellow champions Sebastian Fundora, Xander Zayas and further contenders \u2013 will for many of his potential opponents not offer the same appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not unthinkable that Baraou, who has fought mostly out of Europe, may yet be described similarly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[44913,15363,2560,10078,101,56,54,55,11725],"class_list":{"0":"post-166892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-abass-baraou","9":"tag-bakhram-murtazaliev","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxingscene","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-xander-zayas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166892","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=166892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}