{"id":543642,"date":"2026-04-21T23:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543642\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:00:21","slug":"george-liddards-win-over-tyler-denny-was-a-fight-he-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543642\/","title":{"rendered":"George Liddard\u2019s win over Tyler Denny was a fight he needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men\u2019s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular \u201cBoxing Life Stories\u201d podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including \u201cDamage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing\u201d (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), \u201cWarrior: A Champion\u2019s Search for His Identity\u201d (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and \u201cThe Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing\u2019s Wastelands.\u201d You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,86568,101,54183,187259,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-543642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-george-liddard","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tony-sims","12":"tag-tyler-denny","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543642","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=543642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}