{"id":311431,"date":"2025-12-12T05:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311431\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:08:11","slug":"mike-tyson-and-guy-ritchie-pal-to-appear-at-popular-isle-of-wight-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311431\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson and Guy Ritchie pal to appear at popular Isle of Wight pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Seven-time Irish Heavyweight Champion, Joe Egan, will be at Blondies Bar and Nightclub, Newport, on Sunday (December 14).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A boxing legend who could hold his own as Mike Tyson&#8217;s sparring partner for many years, Egan will be sharing his stories from inside the ring and outside with Tyson, with photo opportunities with the celebrity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Mike Tyson with friend and sparring partner Joe Egan (Image: Joe Egan)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In his professional boxing career, Egan won 13 of his 16 bouts and, as an actor, he featured in two of Guy Ritchie&#8217;s Sherlock Holmes movies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting people from the Isle of Wight,&#8221; the 60-year-old said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It&#8217;s a beautiful place. I remember going there years ago on a school trip.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Free entry. Egan will be at the venue at 2pm. Doors open at 12 noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-time Irish Heavyweight Champion, Joe Egan, will be at Blondies Bar and Nightclub, Newport, on Sunday (December 14).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-311431","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\/311431","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=311431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}