{"id":342891,"date":"2025-12-30T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:48:10","slug":"a-new-year-offers-renewed-hope-for-conor-benn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342891\/","title":{"rendered":"A new year offers renewed hope for Conor Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cThe last two years I\u2019ve been scared for New Year\u2019s because when I mean scared, I mean scared,\u201d Benn told BoxingScene while at the IBA event in Dubai. \u201cLike, worried over the past few New Year\u2019s Eves because I&#8217;m like, I actually don&#8217;t know what is coming this year. And I was surprised to make it to the New Year\u2019s. You know, so it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, just pray that this year\u2019s not the same as last year.\u2019 I pray that I can beat these demons in my own head, you know, and for me getting to where I\u2019m at now, I sit and I go, \u2018God you\u2019ve been so good, you\u2019ve been so good to me, because ultimately, I couldn\u2019t have written this about myself.\u2019 God knew I\u2019d always come through, even through the darkest days. He knew I\u2019d make it through. And I\u2019ve been teetotal for 15 months, which is the biggest victory for me. Throughout the two years, it was just chaos. It was so hard. It was so challenging. I couldn\u2019t even look myself in the mirror. So then now, just like being fully present with my kids, like looking at my son, just going, \u2018I\u2019m so glad I can now be the dad you deserve\u2026\u2019 Outside of this boxing game, because retirement was forced upon me, so I didn\u2019t know how to handle life. I didn\u2019t even realise I didn\u2019t know how to deal with life, because I\u2019d always have a target or a goal or a date. So I didn&#8217;t have a moment to actually see if I can handle life, let alone all the other noises going on around me. It was a double whammy of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe last two years I\u2019ve been scared for New Year\u2019s because when I mean scared, I mean scared,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,13605,99366,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-342891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-conor-benn","10":"tag-nigel-benn","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342891","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=342891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}