At 6ft 5in and weighing in at 17 stone (108kg), the teenager certainly has the physique to make his way in the heavyweight category. <\/p>\n
In early December, he became the adult British Muay Thai Nai Khanom Tom Heavyweight Champion. <\/p>\n
He’s now practicing most days of the week and helps coach other youngsters at the Middleton Martial Arts Academy, where he trains.<\/p>\n
He said: “I had one session and I thought, I like this, I want to keep on going. <\/p>\n
“If you’d asked me two years ago what my purpose was in life, I’d tell you I don’t know. I’m just coasting through life. <\/p>\n
“But if you ask me now, I have things to do. <\/p>\n
“I actually have something on that I have to commit to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 6ft 5in and weighing in at 17 stone (108kg), the teenager certainly has the physique to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-348428","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\/348428","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=348428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}