{"id":531554,"date":"2026-04-15T04:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:32:13","slug":"aston-brown-35-is-a-prospect-in-a-hurry-after-overcoming-prison-and-drug-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531554\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Brown, 35, is a prospect in a hurry after overcoming prison and drug addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a blessing, mate, isn\u2019t it? It really is,\u201d Brown said. \u201cBecause, give it a few years more, going through active addiction and doing the wrong things, and I wouldn\u2019t be sitting here talking to you. It would have been too late, I reckon. It would have been too late. Because boxing is a short career that comes to an end at one point. Nobody goes on forever. But I believe I just got it at the right time. And I believe that me coming back into the game, I didn\u2019t have a lot of miles on the clock because I hadn\u2019t been sparring every day, I hadn\u2019t been fighting, because that puts miles on the old clock. I came back fresh. And I came back, more importantly, fresh minded. So I\u2019m fully grateful that I managed to get back and back doing what I love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s a blessing, mate, isn\u2019t it? It really is,\u201d Brown said. \u201cBecause, give it a few years more,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[183994,2560,6102,10078,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-531554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-aston-brown","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-boxingscene","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531554","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=531554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}