{"id":420185,"date":"2026-02-11T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:22:24","slug":"brandon-figueroa-feared-judging-when-he-arrived-to-fight-nick-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420185\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Figueroa feared judging when he arrived to fight Nick Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cMy coach said, \u2018Finish it kid, they&#8217;re not going to give you nothing here,\u2019\u201d Figueroa said of the advice heading into Round 12. \u201cSo I just had to give it my all. My preparation was really hard and I knew I had more in the tank, and yeah, I just showcased that. [My coach Manny Robles] said, \u2018You\u2019ve got more kid. I&#8217;ve seen you spar 14 rounds, 12 rounds, throwing 1,000 punches,\u2019 and he&#8217;s like, \u2018You\u2019ve got more to give kid,\u2019 and I said, \u2018Okay coach, I&#8217;m gonna follow your advice and we finished really strong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMy coach said, \u2018Finish it kid, they&#8217;re not going to give you nothing here,\u2019\u201d Figueroa said of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,154944,28910,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-420185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-brandon-figueroa","12":"tag-nick-ball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420185","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=420185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}