{"id":186496,"date":"2025-10-08T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186496\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:08:07","slug":"boxing-wouldnt-be-where-it-is-now-without-saudi-arabia-investment-joe-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186496\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing wouldn\u2019t be where it is now without Saudi Arabia investment \u2013 Joe Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cI think what\u2019s happened, what\u2019s killing small-hall boxing is the government, and what they\u2019re taxing people, and the cost of living, that bit of money that used to be a little bit free in the household, to go to a boxing show isn\u2019t there no more. Everyone\u2019s a bit tighter with the pennies, with the pounds, because they don\u2019t have that luxury, and then when you are going to go to a small-hall show, obviously the [British Boxing] Board [of Control], obviously the pricing of the doctors, the ambulances, the venue hire, the seats, the medics, the opponents, the journeymen are wanting crazy money now as well, and the emphasis is on the fighters to sell tickets. Then the pricing of them tickets has got to be a little bit higher to help to cover the cost of the show, and people just don\u2019t have the money in the budget to pay for that no more, and that\u2019s where it\u2019s going wrong. It\u2019s very easy to say, \u2018Oh you\u2019re blaming Turki,\u2019 or, \u2018You\u2019re blaming this.\u2019 No, they\u2019re delivering the fights. They\u2019re delivering the big events. I\u2019ll give an example: Joe Parker versus Fabio Wardley [who box later this month]. I don\u2019t know how that\u2019s doing, that\u2019s a stand-alone. Is it going to do 20,000 at the O2? I don\u2019t know, we\u2019ll see on the night. But I feel that\u2019s the type of fight that\u2019s on its own, but could easily be in a 5v5, or the Magnificent Seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think what\u2019s happened, what\u2019s killing small-hall boxing is the government, and what they\u2019re taxing people, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,82179,101,15969,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-186496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-joe-gallagher","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-turki-alalshikh","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186496","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=186496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}