{"id":323507,"date":"2025-12-18T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:43:06","slug":"frank-bruno-mbe-given-freedom-of-the-city-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323507\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Bruno, MBE, given freedom of the City of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bruno started boxing aged nine and became the youngest amateur British champion at 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in Hammersmith, west London, he was made an MBE in 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1995 he beat Oliver McCall to become the World Boxing Council Heavyweight Champion. The following year he retired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was nominated for the City of London award by former lord mayor of the City of London, alderman Alastair King, who served last year, and alderman Robert Howard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Howard said: &#8220;Frank Bruno has become an inspirational figure, not only for his hugely impressive achievements in the boxing ring but also for how he has spoken with admirable courage and candour about his mental health challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are today recognising, perhaps even celebrating, his significant contribution to opening up these sensitive topics for discussion and reflection.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno started boxing aged nine and became the youngest amateur British champion at 18. Born in Hammersmith, west&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-323507","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\/323507","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=323507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}