{"id":705428,"date":"2026-07-22T15:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705428\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:13:23","slug":"guernseys-tommy-teers-balances-2026-commonwealth-games-boxing-and-job-as-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705428\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey&#8217;s Tommy Teers balances 2026 Commonwealth Games boxing and job as carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He boxes three nights a week, does strength and conditioning every night in-between before either doing sprints or a long run at the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s hard balancing everything, but I&#8217;m doing what I can,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The guys I&#8217;ll be fighting, they&#8217;re full-time athletes, but I can&#8217;t afford to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got my business to run and that&#8217;s kind of what I want to do, so doing this will be a good experience for me to see what level I can actually get to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teers and Niall Adams will fight for Guernsey as part of their 20-strong team going to Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bantamweight has twice reached the English Elite National semi-finals and has fought Ellis Trowbridge, who has been selected to represent England in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just going to give it my all, perform as best as I can that&#8217;s all I can ask for really,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know the competition&#8217;s going to be hard, it&#8217;s definitely a step up for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But that&#8217;s what I want, I want to see how good I can get and how I can compete against those guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He boxes three nights a week, does strength and conditioning every night in-between before either doing sprints or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705428","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\/705428","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=705428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}