{"id":589471,"date":"2026-05-17T20:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589471\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:12:27","slug":"boxxers-ben-shalom-my-worry-for-sky-sports-is-the-lack-of-a-british-promoter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589471\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxxer\u2019s Ben Shalom: \u2018My worry for Sky Sports is the lack of a British promoter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Yeah. What we did with him \u2013 I remember signing him when he was sort of considered a middle-of-the-road, European-level fighter, so to take him to the top of the mountain [of a world title] and do everything we did with him was massive. There were people that broke our contracts in that but it\u2019s going on a lot at the moment. It feels like there\u2019s a big player in the market at the moment that doesn\u2019t really care about\u2026 I\u2019ve seen the Conor Benn stuff and I think that\u2019s only going to end one way. They\u2019ve obviously made that decision, even though, perhaps, they\u2019ve breached his contract there, so that\u2019s something that you can\u2019t avoid and something that will play out. That was probably a bit of a sour taste\u2026 but other than that, nothing against Chris \u2013 and what we did for him, we changed his life. We really did. And we made all his dreams come true from the stadium [fight] to the world title, to the unifications, and even sometimes against our broadcasters\u2019 wishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yeah. What we did with him \u2013 I remember signing him when he was sort of considered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[32055,2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ben-shalom","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589471","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=589471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}