{"id":437126,"date":"2026-02-21T02:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437126\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:05:12","slug":"in-search-of-praise-for-the-zuffa-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437126\/","title":{"rendered":"In search of praise for the Zuffa belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men\u2019s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular \u201cBoxing Life Stories\u201d podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including \u201cDamage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing\u201d (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), \u201cWarrior: A Champion\u2019s Search for His Identity\u201d (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and \u201cThe Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing\u2019s Wastelands.\u201d You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,21662,6748,15289,88143,108772,11790,101,56,54,55,159270,78289],"class_list":{"0":"post-437126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-carl-froch","10":"tag-floyd-mayweather","11":"tag-john-fury","12":"tag-josh-warrington","13":"tag-leigh-wood","14":"tag-oscar-de-la-hoya","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-wood-warrington","20":"tag-zuffa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437126","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=437126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}