{"id":60948,"date":"2025-08-12T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60948\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:59:11","slug":"carnmoneys-rising-boxing-prodigy-kyle-smith-i-eat-sleep-and-breathe-the-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60948\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnmoney\u2019s rising boxing prodigy Kyle Smith: \u2018I eat, sleep and breathe the sport\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Teenager, who has been sparring since he was in nappies, turning pro on Lewis Crocker undercard\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kyle Smith with Eddie Hearn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ith_and_Eddie_Hearn.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kyle Smith with Eddie Hearn<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of Northern Ireland\u2019s stars of the future, Kyle Smith, will make his professional debut on the undercard of Lewis Crocker and Paddy Donovan at Windsor Park next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A boxing prodigy from the Holy Trinity club in the west of the city, Smith has been throwing punches almost as long as he has been walking, and even at the young age of 19, the teenager has already accomplished enough in the amateur game to satisfy his ambitions, now turning his attention to the pro ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenager, who has been sparring since he was in nappies, turning pro on Lewis Crocker undercard Kyle Smith&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,32833,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-60948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-lee-costello","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60948","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=60948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}