{"id":588280,"date":"2026-05-17T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:19:08","slug":"lee-mcgregors-double-dream-shattered-by-michael-gomez-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588280\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee McGregor&#8217;s double dream shattered by Michael Gomez Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland&#8217;s Lee McGregor was stopped by Michael Gomez Jr after six rounds of a controversial lightweight bout in Doncaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester&#8217;s Gomez Jr had motioned to head butt his 29-year-old opponent in the ring before the start of the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGregor, who had been looking to rebuild his career a year after his devastating knockout defeat by countryman Nathaniel Collins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had also hoped for a day of double celebration as his beloved Heart of Midlothian went toe-to-toe with Celtic for the Scottish Premiership title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, hours after Celtic retained their title with a 3-1 win, Gomez Jr ended McGregor&#8217;s hopes with a flurry of punches midway through the scheduled 12 rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s Lee McGregor was stopped by Michael Gomez Jr after six rounds of a controversial lightweight bout in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588280","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\/588280","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=588280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}