{"id":538883,"date":"2026-04-19T05:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:13:14","slug":"boxing-carlisles-brodie-stephenson-bids-to-become-national-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538883\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Carlisle&#8217;s Brodie Stephenson bids to become national champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 25-year-old is competing in the final of the prestigious competition in Derby on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stephenson, from Border City Amateur Boxing Club, will take on Amelia Barker from Eltham &amp; District Boxing Club in London in the female senior elite under-65kg final.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Cumbrian earned her place in the final with an impressive display in last Sunday\u2019s semi-final.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She got the better of top seed Zaynah Casserly, from Aston Boxing Club, with an outstanding performance at Rotherham&#8217;s Magna Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Brodie, 25, is in Saturday&#8217;s female senior elite under-65 national final (Image: Border City ABC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBrodie boxed a punch-perfect contest to come away with a unanimous win,\u201d said Border City ABC coach Ian Archibald.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stephenson now faces Barker for the right to become England\u2019s number one \u2013 while the Carlisle boxer is also on the radar of the Great Britain set-up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her progress to the final has earned her an invitation to the GB Boxing headquarters in Sheffield for assessment in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25-year-old is competing in the final of the prestigious competition in Derby on Saturday. Stephenson, from Border&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-538883","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\/538883","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=538883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}