{"id":502059,"date":"2026-03-29T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:34:16","slug":"heaney-says-fight-delay-has-been-to-his-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502059\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaney says fight delay has been to his advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heaney said when he got the news about the postponement of the original fight, he had almost finished sending out 2,000 tickets to his friends, family and supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He explained: &#8220;It&#8217;s weird because at the time I was thinking &#8216;oh my goodness it&#8217;s been moved and you&#8217;ve got another 10 weeks&#8217;, but it&#8217;s gone really quick actually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Normally, boxers train to reach peak condition just before the fight, you&#8217;re tracking every single meal, you&#8217;re training really, really hard and you&#8217;re just being very disciplined in what you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the original date approached, he said he&#8217;d been thinking: &#8220;After the fight I will be eating takeaways every night and doing whatever I want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, when the news of the postponement broke, although it was initially disappointing, there was an unintended silver lining for Heaney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I&#8217;m in much better shape now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heaney said when he got the news about the postponement of the original fight, he had almost finished&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-502059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502059","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=502059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}