{"id":507415,"date":"2026-04-01T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507415\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:03:13","slug":"mateusz-masternak-reveals-his-admiration-for-viddal-riley-making-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507415\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateusz Masternak reveals his admiration for Viddal Riley &#8216;making sacrifices&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cI know that if you want to fight at the highest level you need to make sacrifices,\u201d Masternak told BoxingScene. \u201cSo the question for him is what do you want to be the best in? In boxing, there is no time or space to lose your focus. Lennox Lewis \u2013 instead of preparing for the fight, he was doing marketing, and he lost the fight [against Hasim Rahman in 2001]. I want to go out there and box as well as I can; do my work, 100 per cent, and concentrate on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI know that if you want to fight at the highest level you need to make sacrifices,\u201d Masternak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,27930,101,56,54,55,88039],"class_list":{"0":"post-507415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-mateusz-masternak","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-viddal-riley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507415","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=507415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}