{"id":429645,"date":"2026-02-17T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429645\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:26:09","slug":"mark-magsayo-ready-for-new-dawn-with-zuffa-boxing-and-at-lightweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429645\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Magsayo ready for new dawn with Zuffa Boxing and at lightweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Magsayo, a native of Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines who began his career at 126 pounds as a 17-year-old, and then won the WBC featherweight title from Gary Russell Jnr in 2022, had struggled mightily to make that weight for a decade, and still had to sacrifice to make the 130lbs limit, where he rose to become the No. 1 contender with the WBC. He elected to bypass an oft-postponed elimination bout against Michael Magnesi and move up to 135lbs, where he believes he\u2019ll be able to perform at his best without feeling weakened by making weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magsayo, a native of Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines who began his career at 126 pounds as a 17-year-old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,10078,21762,6619,101,56,54,55,44291],"class_list":{"0":"post-429645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxingscene","10":"tag-dana-white","11":"tag-mark-magsayo","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-zuffa-boxing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429645","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=429645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}