{"id":616146,"date":"2026-06-02T00:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616146\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:40:14","slug":"queensberry-promotions-and-matchroom-boxing-to-run-back-5x5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616146\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensberry Promotions and Matchroom Boxing to run back 5&#215;5?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Queensberry Promotions and Matchroom Boxing are likely to run back their 5&#215;5 show later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">BoxingScene understands that a date in October or November is being targeted for the England-based show and Eddie Hearn, interviewed by IFL last week, said it could even be a 7&#215;7, with seven of his fighters up against seven from Queensberry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Among the bouts Hearn stated were mentioned in preliminary discussions were a rematch between light heavyweight contenders Callum Smith and Joshua Buatsi (Smith won a Fight of the Year contender against Buatsi in January 2025), a British lightweight title fight between Giorgio Visioli and champion Louie O\u2019Doherty, a middleweight bout between WBO interim champion Denzel Bentley and George Liddard and a heavyweight scrap between Johnny Fisher and former contender Dillian Whyte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensberry Promotions and Matchroom Boxing are likely to run back their 5&#215;5 show later this year. BoxingScene understands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,6572,19056,6573,14465,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-frank-warren","tag-matchroom-boxing","tag-queensberry-promotions","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616146","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=616146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}