{"id":671460,"date":"2026-07-03T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671460\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:25:13","slug":"royston-barney-smith-to-get-reece-bellotti-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671460\/","title":{"rendered":"Royston Barney-Smith to get Reece Bellotti test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Highly-regarded youngster Royston Barney-Smith gets a step-up fight when he travels to Ireland to face veteran Reece Bellotti.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Barney-Smith, from Southampton, England, is trained by Ben Davison and is now 16-0 (8 KOs). The southpaw became the first man to stop Conor McIntosh in his last fight, in April. McIntosh was halted in two rounds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Barney-Smith will face Bellotti at the 3Arena in Dublin on Saturday, August 1, on the bill headlined by Pierce O\u2019Leary\u2019s bout against Portsmouth\u2019s Mark Chamberlain.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bellotti is 20-7 (15 KOs) and the Watford man is coming off consecutive losses to Ryan Garner, who stopped him in 12 rounds, and Josh Padley who won a 10-round decision over him in Bellotti\u2019s last fight in October.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bellotti, 35, is a former British and Commonwealth champion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highly-regarded youngster Royston Barney-Smith gets a step-up fight when he travels to Ireland to face veteran Reece Bellotti.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,224763,224762,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-reece-bellotti","tag-royston-barney-smith","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671460","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=671460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}