{"id":512429,"date":"2026-04-04T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:21:08","slug":"boxing-croft-twins-extend-unbeaten-pro-records-in-altrincham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512429\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Croft twins extend unbeaten pro records in Altrincham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Croft rocked his opponent in the fourth round but to his credit, the durable Radulovic avoided the deck, as he did in the fifth after a vicious body assault from the Welshman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the sixth Radulovic briefly rallied, but although the pace slowed in the closing stages Croft appeared in full control as he took every round on the judges&#8217; scorecards for his eighth pro victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twin brother Garan soon followed suit in his super welterweight bout, although was given a much sterner test by England&#8217;s Marco Simmonds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Croft was by far superior in terms of his movement and footwork, but his offence was frequently met with ripostes from Simmonds, who managed to cut the 24-year-old above his eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it wasn&#8217;t enough to stop Croft from going 6-0 by also taking a convincing 80-72 verdict, and six weeks after he signed them for Matchroom boss Eddie Hearn was ringside to witness the latest steps forward in the careers of both brothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Croft rocked his opponent in the fourth round but to his credit, the durable Radulovic avoided the deck,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-512429","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\/512429","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=512429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}