{"id":398458,"date":"2026-01-30T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:08:11","slug":"the-nine-year-grind-that-leaves-adam-booth-and-josh-kelly-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398458\/","title":{"rendered":"The nine-year grind that leaves Adam Booth and Josh Kelly on the brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cThat\u2019s life, isn\u2019t it? Or should I say that\u2019s my journey? I mean, for me, it\u2019s not about, \u2018Okay, oh, he\u2019s a world champion, so I\u2019ll train him\u2019. It\u2019s never like that for me. It\u2019s always much more personal; much more long-term. Even with Mick Conlan, and he challenged and lost to Leigh Wood for the world title and Mick and I had worked together for years leading up to that. Josh has been with me now since he turned pro, nine years ago. They\u2019re always long journeys. And if it wasn\u2019t for Josh, I\u2019m confident I probably wouldn\u2019t be coaching now.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat\u2019s life, isn\u2019t it? Or should I say that\u2019s my journey? I mean, for me, it\u2019s not about,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[36489,2560,6102,10078,15364,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-adam-booth","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-josh-kelly","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398458","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=398458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}