{"id":485512,"date":"2026-03-20T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:38:12","slug":"michael-conlan-v-kevin-walsh-all-or-nothing-whats-on-the-line-in-fridays-belfast-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485512\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Conlan v Kevin Walsh: &#8216;All or nothing&#8217; &#8211; What&#8217;s on the line in Friday&#8217;s Belfast bout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the age of 34, Michael Conlan knows it is win or bust if he is to achieve his dream of becoming a world champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had a decorated amateur career and had been tipped to reach the top of the professional ranks when he made the switch after the 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Belfast boxer has had shots at his dream, against Leigh Wood in 2022 and Luis Alberto Lopez the following year, but fell short on both occasions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A third professional defeat followed to Jordan Gill in December 2023, but back-to-back wins have him back in the hunt for the elusive world title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Kevin Walsh awaits at the SSE Arena in Belfast on Friday, and for Conlan, he knows &#8220;every single fight is all or nothing now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be honest, people think it has pressure, but I think it releases so much pressure,&#8221; Conlan told BBC Sport N.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You just enjoy the moment now because for a lot of my career, I don&#8217;t think I probably enjoyed every moment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was too focused on what was next, what was next, what was next. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But now I&#8217;m at a stage where you&#8217;ve got to enjoy it because it could be the last one, every single one.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the age of 34, Michael Conlan knows it is win or bust if he is to achieve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-485512","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\/485512","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=485512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}