{"id":735162,"date":"2026-08-12T02:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735162\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:22:15","slug":"heavyweight-contender-david-adeleye-declares-free-agent-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735162\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight contender David Adeleye declares free agent status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Heavyweight contender David Adeleye has declared himself a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The 14-2 (13 KOs) Londoner, trained by Adam Booth, last boxed on August 16, 2025, against Filip Hrgovic, losing a 10-round decision in Saudi Arabia, and has been promoted by Queensberry Promotions, who have a significant heavyweight roster that includes Daniel Dubois, Agit Kabayel, Guido Vianello, Fabio Wardley, Tony Yoka, Lawrence Okolie, Moses Itauma and Hrgovic, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before facing Hrgovic, Adeleye had stopped Jeamie TKV and Solomon Dacres but had been stopped by Wardley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cFirst and foremost, a massive thank you to everyone at Queensberry for all the years we\u2019ve had together,\u201d Adeleye wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201dI\u2019ve been with Frank from the beginning of my professional career and I\u2019ll always be grateful for the opportunities, the big nights and everything we\u2019ve achieved along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAfter a lot of thought, I felt the time was right for a new challenge. I made the decision to see out my contract and not re-sign, so as of now, I\u2019m officially a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cNow it\u2019s time for the next chapter. I\u2019m excited, hungry and ready to see what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Adeleye was one of many fighters ringside at the Zuffa Boxing show in Bournemouth in June, headlined by Chris Billam-Smith\u2019s war with Ryan Rozicki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavyweight contender David Adeleye has declared himself a free agent. The 14-2 (13 KOs) Londoner, trained by Adam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,28725,14465,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-david-adeleye","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\/735162","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=735162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}