both won on their Matchroom debuts in April<\/a> – Ioan defeated Serbia’s Novak Radulovic before Garan saw off Marco Simmonds of England.<\/p>\n“It’s great to have that backing from Matchroom,” said Ioan.<\/p>\n
“It’s everything that we’ve ever worked towards really. It gives us that platform to show how good we are.<\/p>\n
“Our debuts with Matchroom were brilliant here in Manchester and looking forward to our next one now.<\/p>\n
“Before, when we didn’t have the backing of Matchroom, we would get out of the ring and didn’t know what was next.<\/p>\n
“Now it’s nice to have this path in front of us over the next few years and gives us that real incentive to work a little bit harder.”<\/p>\n
For Garan, too, signing up with Matchroom has given him and Ioan the prospect of fighting for titles in the near future.<\/p>\n
“It’s where any young boxer wants to be at the minute,” Garan said of the long-term deal with Matchroom.<\/p>\n
“The opportunities are massive \u2013 it’s what people know and it’s what people are watching these days.<\/p>\n
“I believe with their backing we can bring big nights of boxing back to Wales.<\/p>\n
“That would be amazing and a dream come true. That’s the aim.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We’ve always wanted to do better than each other,” says Welsh boxer Garan Croft as he turns to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639470","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\/639470","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=639470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}