{"id":478998,"date":"2026-03-16T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478998\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:23:09","slug":"pictured-carlisle-bare-knuckle-boxer-kieron-sewells-latest-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478998\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictured: Carlisle bare-knuckle boxer Kieron Sewell&#8217;s latest contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/local-news\/carlisle-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carlisle<\/a>&#8216;s Kieron Sewell went head to head with Lewis Garside in a bantamweight fight at BKFC Fight Night Newcastle on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Currock fighter lost out on a points decision but both fighters earned praise for the quality of the five-round contest &#8211; with BKFC president David Feldman so impressed that he decided to double the fighters&#8217; purses afterwards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Many observers described it as the fight of the night at the Utilita Arena, with the victorious Garside predicting &#8220;big things&#8221; for Sewell in the sport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Garside and Sewell traded powerful blows throughout &#8211; check out a gallery of photos at the top of this article from their full-blooded contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlisle&#8216;s Kieron Sewell went head to head with Lewis Garside in a bantamweight fight at BKFC Fight Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478998","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=478998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}