{"id":185826,"date":"2025-10-08T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:08:08","slug":"boxing-josh-taylor-says-john-joe-carrigan-should-be-fast-tracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185826\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Josh Taylor says John Joe Carrigan should be &#8216;fast-tracked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Carlisle teenager Carrigan made short work of Polish opponent Dawid Przybylski\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/25518154.boxing-carlisles-john-joe-carrigan-enjoys-pro-debut-win\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on his pro debut in Glasgow last weekend.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 18-year-old, who is on the books of Frank Warren\u2019s Queensberry Promotions, is tipped for big things.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And former undisputed world light-welterweight champion Taylor, who watched Carrigan\u2019s fight in Scotland, feels the Border City Amateur Boxing Club star should be tested in much more competitive fights as soon as possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe was very good and skilful, and looked like he was enjoying himself there,\u201d said Taylor of the young Cumbrian.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    \ud835\udc7b\ud835\udc82\ud835\udc8d\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc8f\ud835\udc95 \ud835\udc8c\ud835\udc8f\ud835\udc90\ud835\udc98\ud835\udc94 \ud835\udc7b\ud835\udc82\ud835\udc8d\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc8f\ud835\udc95 \ud83e\udd1d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshTaylorBoxer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@JoshTaylorBoxer<\/a> heaps praise on rising star John Joe Carrigan following his EXPLOSIVE debut win! \ud83d\udcab <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CollinsLorente?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#CollinsLorente<\/a> | Now | Glasgow | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DAZNBoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@DAZNBoxing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oija0v1M6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/oija0v1M6c<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Queensberry Promotions (@Queensberry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Queensberry\/status\/1974582576104046599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 4, 2025<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe moved through the gears a bit, then stopped the boy with no problems asked.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s a great debut and a great stage to put his debut on \u2013 and I reckon he could be in good, competitive fights now, so he can get fast-tracked into bigger fights very quickly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe\u2019s got the talent, that\u2019s for sure, and great amateur experience as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/25516163.boxing-carlisles-john-joe-carrigan-set-pro-debut\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: Big interview with Carlisle boxing star John Joe Carrigan and his coach ahead of much-anticipated pro debut<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI don\u2019t think we should waste too much time putting him in fights like that. We need to start stepping up the levels pretty quickly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan, who now trains at the Tenacity gym in Hartlepool and is managed by the legendary American Shelly Finkel, defeated Przybylski\u00a0by TKO (technical knockout) in the first round in Glasgow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The super-welterweight contest was on the undercard at the Next King of Scotland show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan, from Todhills, enjoyed a stellar amateur career whilst with Border City ABC in Carlisle, winning a series of regional, national and European titles as well as becoming World Under-19 champion last year.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlisle teenager Carrigan made short work of Polish opponent Dawid Przybylski\u00a0on his pro debut in Glasgow last weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-185826","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\/185826","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=185826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}