{"id":580931,"date":"2026-05-13T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580931\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:36:09","slug":"francesca-hennessy-to-fight-aurora-de-persio-live-on-bbc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580931\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Hennessy to fight Aurora De Persio live on BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

British bantamweight Francesca Hennessy’s fight against Aurora de Persio will be shown live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n

The bout will be part of a Boxxer event headlined by Adam Azim’s fight<\/a> against Steve Claggett on 30 May at Wembley Arena in London.<\/p>\n

Hennessy will be aiming to defend her WBC Silver Bantamweight title against Italian De Persio to set up a fight against undisputed bantamweight champion Cherneka Johnson later this year. <\/p>\n

“This is another important test for me,” said 21-year-old Hennessy. “I’ve always wanted to challenge myself against good opponents because that’s what will prepare me for world title fights.”<\/p>\n

Hennessy beat Ellie Bouttell<\/a> in her last outing as she extended her 100% record to eight wins in eight fights, while De Persio has eight wins and one defeat from nine fights. <\/p>\n

Hennessy has her sights set on becoming the youngest undisputed champion in boxing history.<\/p>\n

That record is currently held by Gabriela Fundora, who achieved the feat at flyweight aged 22 years and 218 days – meaning Hennessy, who turns 22 in October, would need to do it by 26 May 2027.<\/p>\n

“I know what I want to achieve in this sport and every fight is another step towards becoming world champion,” said Hennessy. <\/p>\n

“I’m staying focused, improving every camp and I can’t wait to put on a show on 30 May.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British bantamweight Francesca Hennessy’s fight against Aurora de Persio will be shown live on BBC Two and BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-580931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580931","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=580931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}