{"id":395525,"date":"2026-01-28T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395525\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:28:14","slug":"francesca-hennessy-briton-upgraded-to-main-event-in-bbc-two-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395525\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Hennessy: Briton upgraded to main event in BBC Two show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the third time professional boxing has been shown on prime-time linear BBC television in more than two decades, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g43gxjvd5o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeamie &#8216;TKV&#8217; Tshikeva&#8217;s victory over Frazer Clarke,<\/a> which launched the BBC&#8217;s partnership with Boxxer in November, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c2k4y1nv31zo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Williamson&#8217;s stoppage win against Callum Simpson<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sevenoaks fighter Hennessy, 21, has won all seven of her professional bouts, while 29-year-old Briton Bouttell &#8211; who is based in China &#8211; has won seven and drawn one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The contest is a final eliminator for the WBC bantamweight title, currently held by Australia&#8217;s Cherneka Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trained by Peter Fury, Kraus, 24, has stopped eight of his nine professional opponents. Crighton, 32, has lost six of his 19 fights, with five of those defeats coming in his past eight outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will be the third time professional boxing has been shown on prime-time linear BBC television in more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395525","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\/395525","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=395525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}