{"id":333095,"date":"2025-12-24T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333095\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:06:13","slug":"dave-allen-admits-his-life-spirals-pretty-quickly-without-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333095\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen admits his life \u2018spirals pretty quickly without boxing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cI just like being at home, really,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a bit of a homebody. I think because people think I\u2019m quite outspoken [that he likes to be out], but I think I\u2019m painfully shy, really. But I do what I have to do. I will fight forever. I need it, though. If I\u2019m not training for a fight, or have a fight in mind, my life just spirals. I\u2019ve got the kids now, luckily. So I don&#8217;t go mad anymore. I\u2019ll just keep going. I still worry about life after boxing. I have other things going on now, which give me less worry financially, or whatever else. Yeah, I worry massively. Life after boxing, yeah, I do worry about it a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI just like being at home, really,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a bit of a homebody. I think because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,26601,15919,129709,129710,6573,101,56,54,55,20596],"class_list":{"0":"post-333095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-british-boxing","10":"tag-dave-allen","11":"tag-david-allen","12":"tag-doncaster-de-la-hoya","13":"tag-matchroom-boxing","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-white-rhino"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333095","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=333095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}