{"id":494157,"date":"2026-03-25T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:49:07","slug":"megan-redstall-overwhelmed-with-support-after-boxing-title-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494157\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Redstall &#8216;overwhelmed with support&#8217; after boxing title win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A paramedic says she is &#8220;overwhelmed with the support&#8221; she has received after being crowned the the new Commonwealth Bantamweight Boxing Champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Megan Redstall, from Westbury in Wiltshire, secured a unanimous victory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c627lr57lzro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to claim the title in February<\/a>, while working full-time as a paramedic for the South Western Ambulance Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the win, she says she hopes to transition to boxing full-time, while keeping her paramedic work up one day a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Redstall, who is coached by former Malmesbury boxer Joe Hughes, added the additional attention had actually helped her in caring for her patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A paramedic says she is &#8220;overwhelmed with the support&#8221; she has received after being crowned the the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-494157","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\/494157","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=494157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}