{"id":509272,"date":"2026-04-02T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509272\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:07:13","slug":"how-lerrone-richards-turned-disappointment-into-a-dress-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509272\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lerrone Richards turned disappointment into a dress rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cSo, anyway, I got up and opened the door and it was Dave [Coldwell, Richards\u2019 trainer] along with one of the other management people. Dave was like, \u2018Lerrone, sit down,\u2019 so I did. They then tell me that the fight has been cancelled. I was thinking they might be having me on \u2013 hoping that was the case \u2013 but then I thought to myself, No, they wouldn\u2019t joke about something like that. They then said that he [Ramirez, his opponent] had been rushed to hospital with appendicitis. I just thought, Wow, there\u2019s nothing I can do about this.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo, anyway, I got up and opened the door and it was Dave [Coldwell, Richards\u2019 trainer] along with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10649,2560,178370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-509272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-albert-ramirez","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-lerrone-richards","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509272","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=509272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}