{"id":216457,"date":"2025-10-21T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/216457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:33:07","slug":"liam-williams-welsh-boxer-in-bid-to-come-out-of-retirement-despite-medical-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/216457\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Williams: Welsh boxer in bid to come out of retirement despite medical history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh boxer Liam Williams says he is ready to get back into the ring and fight again &#8211; 12 months after retiring due to receiving &#8220;several concussions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old, who won British, European and Commonwealth titles, said in October last year he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c79ngjrw3qdo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hanging up his gloves<\/a> because he was worried about taking further blows to the head and suffering more brain damage.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, in a post on his Instagram channel, Williams says he wants to reverse the decision to quit, saying &#8220;the time has come and I&#8217;m ready to rumble again&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former world title challenger went on: &#8220;Any middleweight or super middleweights looking for some smoke, then here&#8217;s where you can get it. You know what to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year Williams said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/60252008\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fought Chris Eubank Jr in 2022<\/a> despite knowing he was suffering the effects of a concussion and against medical advice as he &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to let down his fans&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh boxer Liam Williams says he is ready to get back into the ring and fight again &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-216457","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\/216457","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=216457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}