{"id":212162,"date":"2025-10-20T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212162\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:52:09","slug":"ex-premier-league-goalie-paddy-kenny-requires-oxygen-after-charity-boxing-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212162\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Premier League goalie Paddy Kenny requires oxygen after charity boxing knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Ireland goalkeeper Paddy Kenny was knocked out in the first round of his charity boxing match against ex-Premier League defender Curtis Davies on Thursday night\"CurtisCurtis Davies and Paddy Kenny in action<\/p>\n

Former Ireland goalkeeper Paddy Kenny required oxygen treatment after being knocked unconscious during a charity boxing<\/a> bout.<\/p>\n

The 47-year-old was floored by ex-Premier League<\/a> defender Curtis Davies in the opening round of their clash.<\/p>\n

The duo were participating in a charitable event organised by former Arsenal goalkeeper Graham Stack to raise funds for Helping Hands, Willow, Sport In Mind, and Play Skill, with organisers hoping to reach a \u00a3500,000 target, reports the Irish Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ex-Sheffield United shot-stopper Kenny and 40-year-old Davies wasted little time getting stuck into each other in the centre of the ring.<\/p>\n

Both combatants landed significant blows before Kenny was sent crashing to the floor and ruled out by the official.<\/p>\n

Following oxygen assistance, Kenny managed to get back on his feet whilst Davies was announced as the knockout victor.<\/p>\n

Davies commented post-fight: “Really pleased, I’ve worked hard for this, it’s bittersweet, I love Paddy to bits, I didn’t want to have to knock him about but that’s what we’re here to do.<\/p>\n

“It’s all for charity, yes, but I enjoyed that win.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile on an evening featuring exclusively former footballers, ex-Spurs midfielder David Bentley was defeated by former Chelsea star Jody Morris.<\/p>\n

Ex-Reading forward Leroy Lita overcame David Noble, whilst Anthony Gardner emerged victorious against Lee Trundle, and Marvin Elliott triumphed over Greg Halford in the evening’s second-to-last encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ireland goalkeeper Paddy Kenny was knocked out in the first round of his charity boxing match against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,30904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-212162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-republic-of-ireland-football-team","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212162","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=212162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}