{"id":360310,"date":"2026-01-09T05:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360310\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:23:10","slug":"boxing-carlisles-john-joe-carrigan-to-fight-danny-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360310\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Carlisle&#8217;s John Joe Carrigan to fight Danny Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Cumbrian will face Danny Costello in his second pro fight later this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan, 18, will take on the West Midlands-based boxer at the Queensberry Magnificent 7 show at Co-op Live, Manchester, on Saturday, January 24.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will be another much-anticipated fight involving the highly-rated Carrigan, who swept to a comfortable victory on his pro debut in October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The super-welterweight contest will feature on the card topped by heavyweight star Moses Itauma\u2019s fight against Jermaine Franklin, and which will be screened live on DAZN.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nuneaton-based Costello, 25, is making his comeback after two years away from the professional scene, the southpaw having made his debut in 2022. He has three wins and a defeat on his professional record.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Border City Amateur Boxing Club product Carrigan, from Todhills, now trains at the Tenacity gym in Hartlepool and is part of Frank Warren\u2019s Queensberry stable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He eased to a first-round stoppage win against Dawid Przybylski in Glasgow on his pro debut in October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That followed the Cumbrian\u2019s step into the pro ranks after a title-strewn amateur career.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Queensberry promoter Warren said of the Manchester show: \u201cWe are thrilled to be delivering such a strong Magnificent 7 bounty for the fans in our first UK show of 2026. It is a statement of intent for the New Year and a sign of things to come.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cumbrian will face Danny Costello in his second pro fight later this month. Carrigan, 18, will take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-360310","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\/360310","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=360310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}