{"id":23237,"date":"2025-07-25T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23237\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:26:12","slug":"josh-taylor-reflects-on-career-and-retirement-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23237\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Taylor Reflects on Career and Retirement Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cThat\u2019s my mission accomplished,\u201d he reflected. \u201cI\u2019ve won it all. I\u2019ve won everything, and my dad was saying to me, \u2018Just retire now, son, you retire at the top.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Absolutely, but you know, I can be at the top, but I haven&#8217;t had top money. I need money to live the rest of my life, man.\u2019 So I continued. But I also believed I was going to go on and become a world champion again; become a two-weight world champion. Then injuries started happening left, right and center, and I started getting plagued with injuries, so it was a bit of a shitty end to my career. It was a bit of a nosedive, kind of riddled with injuries the last three or four years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat\u2019s my mission accomplished,\u201d he reflected. \u201cI\u2019ve won it all. I\u2019ve won everything, and my dad was saying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,14496,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-23237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-josh-taylor","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23237","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=23237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}