{"id":724700,"date":"2026-08-02T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724700\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:09:16","slug":"boxing-carlisles-john-joe-carrigan-defeats-sean-murray-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724700\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Carlisle&#8217;s John Joe Carrigan defeats Sean Murray in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Carrigan shone in Dublin to defeat Irish opponent Sean Murray.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 19-year-old sealed the win in the third round when the young Cumbrian overpowered his opponent from Navan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan had already knocked Murray down with a quickfire combination when, after the Irish boxer survived a standing eight count, the Carlisle boxer sealed the deal with some relentless punching that downed Murray a second time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The referee at that point called an end to the contest, the stoppage a minute and 31 seconds into round three continuing Carrigan&#8217;s impressive unbeaten start to professional life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The former Border City Amateur Boxing Club star was on the card at the Queensberry Promotions &#8216;No Turning Back&#8217; show at Dublin&#8217;s 3Arena.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His TKO (technical knock-out) win over Murray followed previous confident displays to defeat Dawid Przybylski, Danny Costello and Harley Hodgetts by the highly-rated Carrigan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Highly-rated Carrigan added the Murray win to his three previous professional victories (Image: PA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Cumbrian, nicknamed &#8216;Star Boy&#8217;, turned pro last year after a title-strewn amateur career, which included the World Under-19 title as well as a host of other European, national and regional titles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan, as he turned pro, was snapped up by Frank Warren&#8217;s Queensberry Promotions, while he is managed by the legendary American, Shelly Finkel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Carlisle boxer, from Todhills, trains at Tenacity in Hartlepool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrigan shone in Dublin to defeat Irish opponent Sean Murray. The 19-year-old sealed the win in the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724700","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\/724700","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=724700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}