{"id":546417,"date":"2026-04-23T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546417\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:56:10","slug":"the-things-you-can-and-cannot-now-write-about-lawrence-okolie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546417\/","title":{"rendered":"The things you can and cannot now write about Lawrence Okolie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">As for whether he was more effective at heavyweight than cruiserweight, Okolie was again reluctant to commit or go too early. \u201cYou\u2019ll have to ask me after I beat Yoka, to be fair,\u201d he said, showing once more how much he values having proof. \u201cRight now, I\u2019m calm and happy with my progress, but this is the one for me. He\u2019s going to be the biggest guy I have faced as a heavyweight. He\u2019s six-seven, Olympic champion, and a true heavyweight. He has been a heavyweight since fight one. I know this will be really, really telling, this fight. If I go in there and I land and hurt him badly, which I\u2019m anticipating I will, that would be a good statement for me. But if I don\u2019t hurt him and I have to win over 10 rounds, how do rounds six, seven, eight and nine look with a bigger guy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As for whether he was more effective at heavyweight than cruiserweight, Okolie was again reluctant to commit or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,16174,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-lawrence-okolie","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\/546417","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=546417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}