{"id":324457,"date":"2025-12-19T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324457\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:30:13","slug":"callum-simpson-accuses-troy-williamson-of-lacking-self-belief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324457\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Simpson accuses Troy Williamson of lacking self-belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williamson gave his career a much-needed boost by halting a three-fight losing streak when stopping Mark Dickinson for the British super-middleweight title in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old jumped up a division for that victory and admitted he probably waited too long to listen to his body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am a different animal,&#8221; Williamson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel better in sessions and it&#8217;s my natural weight. I can train properly and have proper session. I&#8217;m sleeping better and recovering better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darlington fighter Williamson insisted he will &#8220;thrive&#8221; in the hostile atmosphere that awaits him in Leeds, with Simpson expected to bring a large following across Yorkshire from Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simpson has built a strong a loyal following since turning professional in 2019 and regularly meets fans before fights to hand over tickets in person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got amazing support, it&#8217;s everything a boxing coming up would want,&#8221; Simpson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You see people like Ricky Hatton, rest in peace, and Josh Warrington did it and I&#8217;m building that base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s spreading across the country with people coming to get tickets from me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williamson gave his career a much-needed boost by halting a three-fight losing streak when stopping Mark Dickinson for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-324457","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\/324457","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=324457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}