{"id":406923,"date":"2026-02-04T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406923\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:37:07","slug":"shakhram-giyasov-wont-stand-in-the-way-say-matchroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406923\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakhram Giyasov won\u2019t stand in the way, say Matchroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cLike I say, where we represent [Giyasov], obviously we&#8217;re looking at what the best options are for him,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI spoke to Vadim [Kornilov, Giyasov\u2019s manager] a few days ago. Shakhram wants to win the world title. 100 per cent he wants to win the world title, but he&#8217;s obviously, at the same time, he&#8217;s sensible. So that&#8217;s something we will talk through and I think we&#8217;ll be able to make the fight between Conor Benn and Rolly Romero, if that&#8217;s the route we go down, and then make sure Shakhram gets his opportunity. He&#8217;s obviously been very sensible throughout, he allowed the \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis-Stanionis [WBA\/IBF unification fight] to go ahead. He knows the way the sport works of course, but he will get a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLike I say, where we represent [Giyasov], obviously we&#8217;re looking at what the best options are for him,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,151564,86309,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-406923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-rolly-romero-conor-benn","tag-shakhram-giyasov","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406923","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=406923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}