{"id":264964,"date":"2025-11-15T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264964\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:33:21","slug":"ekow-essuman-nottingham-boxer-set-for-jack-catterall-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264964\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekow Essuman: Nottingham boxer set for Jack Catterall bout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essuman is third in the WBO rankings, with a record of 22 wins and just a solitary defeat in his decade-long professional career.<\/p>\n

“To build a good house you have to have good foundations. And all that work I’ve been putting in has just been building that foundation,” Essuman said.<\/p>\n

“I have a good house now, I’m just putting the little bits on top and I’ll make a good job of it.”<\/p>\n

For Essuman, this is another stern test of those foundations and his credentials after he shocked former undisputed world champion Josh Taylor<\/a> for a career-best win in Glasgow six months ago.<\/p>\n

Chorley’s Catterall beat Taylor himself just last year,<\/a> avenging what a controversial split-decision points defeat in 2022 that saw the Scot hold onto his WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO belts.<\/p>\n

But Catterall’s defeat by American Arnold Barboza Jr in Manchester earlier this year came as another blow to the Briton’s world title ambitions.<\/p>\n

Essuman admits beating Catterall and positioning himself as a world-title contender would “mean everything” after years of hard graft.<\/p>\n

“To be a champion, you have to have that relentless pursuit of passion towards what you are going for,” he said.<\/p>\n

“And yes, I’d love to get it. But I’m fighting for so much more than myself.<\/p>\n

“I’m doing it for my kids, my wife and my family.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essuman is third in the WBO rankings, with a record of 22 wins and just a solitary defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-264964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264964","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=264964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}