{"id":58588,"date":"2025-08-11T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58588\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:41:12","slug":"boxing-carlisles-john-joe-carrigan-excited-for-pro-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58588\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Carlisle&#8217;s John Joe Carrigan excited for pro debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The teenage Cumbrian, who won a string of world, European and domestic titles as an amateur, will box as a pro for the first time in October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan, 18, is part of top promoter Frank Warren\u2019s Queensbury stable, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/25363966.boxing-date-set-john-joe-carrigans-professional-debut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will fight at the Next King of Scotland show in Glasgow.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Border City Amateur Boxing Club star appeared at a press conference this week (watch below) where host Dev Sahni said: \u201cSome are calling him [Carrigan] the best prospect in world boxing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan said he can\u2019t wait for his first fight since turning professional in May.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked by Sahni what \u201call the fuss\u201d was about, the Carlisle boxer said: \u201cWe\u2019re gonna see on October 4.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019ve turned pro, I\u2019ve done all I can as an amateur, won most things that people can as an amateur \u2013 and I\u2019m ready to prove it on October 4.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019ve definitely got itchy knuckles now. Time is coming.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019ve trained for three or four months since turning pro. I haven\u2019t rushed into anything, I\u2019ve made sure I\u2019m ready.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked about his goals now, Carrigan added: \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to getting my pro debut out of the way, keeping the ball rolling, getting a few more fights. But the bigger picture is being world champion one day.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan\u2019s welterweight opponent at the show in Scotland in October has yet to be announced.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The teenager enjoyed a stellar amateur career, capped by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/24696789.carlisles-john-joe-carrigan-wins-world-u19-boxing-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winning the World Under-19 title at 70kg last year.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As well as being part of Warren\u2019s Queensberry stable, Carrigan is managed by the legendary American, Shelly Finkel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The young Cumbrian now trains at the Tenacity gym in the north east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teenage Cumbrian, who won a string of world, European and domestic titles as an amateur, will box&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-58588","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\/58588","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=58588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}