{"id":241610,"date":"2025-11-03T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241610\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:13:08","slug":"liam-williams-reveals-coach-gary-lockett-discouraged-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241610\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Williams reveals coach Gary Lockett discouraged comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Williams revealed he suffered multiple concussions before retirement<\/a>, including one three weeks before facing Eubank Jr, when he was floored four times.<\/p>\n

“If you go and have another concussion you can drop dead. That was a bit of an idiot move from me [fighting Eubank Jr], but me being a fighter I thought I could still do it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I was losing too much weight. That last week, losing the best part of a stone in the 12 to 18 hours before the weigh-in, it’s a big ask to recover from that.<\/p>\n

“I was standing on the scales thinking, ‘I’m going to fall over’.”<\/p>\n

After those struggles to make the 11st 6lbs (160 lbs) middleweight limit, Williams did not rule out a repeat at that weight but was intending to return eight pounds heavier at the “safe option” of super-middleweight.<\/p>\n

Despite his new lease of life, thoughts of CTE remain on his mind.<\/p>\n

“It always has been because I have got children which I have to think about,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It was much more of a worry at this point two years ago. Now I’ve got my stuff together and I’m doing things right.<\/p>\n

“I feel much healthier than I was back then, head and body. I have had a number of brain scans and everything is checking out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams revealed he suffered multiple concussions before retirement, including one three weeks before facing Eubank Jr, when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-241610","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\/241610","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=241610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}