{"id":35040,"date":"2025-07-31T04:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35040\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:55:06","slug":"legendary-trainer-tommy-brooks-dies-at-71-after-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35040\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Trainer Tommy Brooks Dies at 71 After Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>archiemoore1Wed Jul 30, 2025, 10:51 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>I keep hearing his voice in my head telling Jirov, &#8220;you gotta beat on this sucker&#8221;(James Toney)<\/p>\n<p>crisantonio917Wed Jul 30, 2025, 6:36 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Sad to hear, RIP Tommy you&#8217;re in the record books forever brother<\/p>\n<p>mjh1969Wed Jul 30, 2025, 5:19 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>RIP Tommy. You were a class act and a credit to the sport. God bless you and your family.<\/p>\n<p>TatabanyaWed Jul 30, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace Tommy. And yes, it was too soon to go.<\/p>\n<p>STREET CLEANERWed Jul 30, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>RIP Tommy. One of the top trainers in the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"archiemoore1Wed Jul 30, 2025, 10:51 PM UTC I keep hearing his voice in my head telling Jirov, &#8220;you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,20129,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-35040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-tommy-brooks","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35040","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=35040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}