viral in 2015 for sparring<\/a> with friend and former Manchester United team-mate Phil Bardsley in his kitchen. <\/p>\nBut Rooney revealed he has also targeted someone who would put up more of a fight than Bardsley – former world champion Joe Calzaghe, at his agent’s wedding no less. <\/p>\n
Rooney’s agent Paul Stretford explained the story: “Joe came to the wedding, and Wayne’s there of course. And we’ve had a few drinks and he offers Joe Calzaghe out. I’m stood there talking to them both and he goes, ‘Alright Joe’, ‘Alright Wayne?’ ‘I could have you’.<\/p>\n
“I’m looking and I’m thinking, ‘You’re joking me’. He’s going, ‘No, just calm down… I just want to do a bit of shadow boxing with him’. So we go onto the green outside in the middle of my wedding.<\/p>\n
“Joe’s going, ‘Don’t worry, it’s nothing’. Joe’s just sort of stood there but [Rooney’s gone] into the ribs.”<\/p>\n
Remembering the moment, Rooney joked: “I saw him, he looked a bit vulnerable, he’d had a few drinks. I thought I might give him his first defeat.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rooney’s love of boxing has never been a secret. He even went viral in 2015 for sparring with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-335255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335255","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=335255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}