{"id":500598,"date":"2026-03-28T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500598\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:31:11","slug":"thomas-taylors-rise-as-the-worlds-best-referee-all-in-the-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500598\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Taylor&#8217;s rise as the world&#8217;s best referee all in the routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cA judge told me in the amateurs, \u2018You\u2019ll timekeep for three-four years, then you\u2019ll be judging for another three-four years, and then around year eight-nine, we\u2019ll start working you in,\u2019\u201d Taylor recalled. \u201cI\u2019m sitting back, biting my tongue, thinking, \u2018You have no fricking clue the path I\u2019m taking and how I\u2019m going to get there, and you\u2019re not telling me the path I\u2019m going to take.\u2019 I did my own thing. No one was going to stop me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA judge told me in the amateurs, \u2018You\u2019ll timekeep for three-four years, then you\u2019ll be judging for another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,21970,11189,101,42291,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-500598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-keith-thurman","10":"tag-sebastian-fundora","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-thomas-taylor","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500598","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=500598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}