{"id":488445,"date":"2026-03-22T00:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488445\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:07:11","slug":"boxing-is-like-a-mating-dance-between-two-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488445\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing is like a mating dance between two birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">As it turned out, my night had barely begun. The first note I wrote down once it started \u2013 \u201cboxing has foreplay?\u201d \u2013 was the one great lesson I \ufefflearned that\ufeff night. \ufeffI\u2019d expected the fighters to beat each other to a pulp \ufeffrelentlessly, but contact \ufeffoccurs relatively rarely in the ring. Like two birds \ufeffin an overly complicated mating dance, \ufeffopponents spend most of their time s\ufeffizing each other up, trying to find openings, and figuring out \ufefftheir next move\ufeff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As it turned out, my night had barely begun. The first note I wrote down once it started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488445","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=488445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}