{"id":388878,"date":"2026-01-25T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388878\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:14:11","slug":"romford-shopping-hall-to-hold-charlie-magri-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388878\/","title":{"rendered":"Romford Shopping Hall to hold Charlie Magri fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Worldwide Signings Memorabilia, at Romford Shopping Hall, is hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romfordrecorder.co.uk\/news\/25033102.worldwide-signings-romford-shopping-hall-hosting-boxing-event\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">meet and greet<\/a> with Charlie Magri on Saturday, January 31, as part of a fundraiser for the boxer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The former British, European and WBC world flyweight champion opened up to The Sun in December 2025 about his Alzheimer&#8217;s diagnosis, revealing that he is now struggling to get by after losing his cleaning job.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Charlie was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s (Image: Andrew Brace)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Charlie&#8217;s event at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romfordrecorder.co.uk\/topics\/romford-shopping-hall\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Romford Shopping Hall<\/a> is free to attend, but all proceeds from signed memorabilia will go to the boxer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He will be signing gloves and photos, as well as taking pictures with fans, between 12pm and 2pm on January 31.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Andy Brace, owner of Worldwide Signings, said: &#8220;It has been well documented recently that the former British, European and WBC world flyweight champion Charlie Magri is now suffering from Alzheimer&#8217;s and is now facing one of the hardest fights of his life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Please turn up and give the man who was arguably, pound for pound the best fighter in the country in the early eighties a day to remember.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Whatever we take on the day will go in his pocket so even if you&#8217;ve met him before&#8230;turn up again!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worldwide Signings Memorabilia, at Romford Shopping Hall, is hosting a meet and greet with Charlie Magri on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-388878","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\/388878","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=388878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}