{"id":751561,"date":"2026-08-27T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751561\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:10:14","slug":"aberdeen-boxer-on-olympic-dreams-and-temptation-of-going-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751561\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen boxer on Olympic dreams and temptation of going pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;There is a temptation to go professional of course if certain things align, but I am the only Scottish boxer on the GB Olympic programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So the LA cycle is something I would like to stay on for and try and qualify for because that is once in a lifetime stuff really &#8211; to be an Olympian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the GB Academy squad, the light-middleweight boxer spends a lot of his time training in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Being part of that set up is one thing, eventually being picked to represent Team GB at the Olympic games is another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kerr certainly has plenty of potential and being a three time Four Nations Elite champion, at three different weights, is proof of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I have just kept plugging away and now hopefully I can reap the rewards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a hard programme to get on to, only the best get on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kerr said he had &#8220;big boots&#8221; to follow with Josh Taylor, Anthony Joshua and Luke Campbell among the big names he hoped to emulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;There is a temptation to go professional of course if certain things align, but I am&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751561","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\/751561","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=751561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}