{"id":787764,"date":"2026-09-30T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787764\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:56:07","slug":"ex-world-champion-boxer-liam-smith-charged-with-apartment-building-gbh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787764\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-world champion boxer Liam Smith charged with apartment building GBH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The alleged victim reportedly suffered fractures and required surgery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith, nicknamed Beefy, had been due to make a comeback fight against local fighter Ilaru Kujala in Finland on 4 September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he withdrew from the fight a few days earlier after suffering a calf injury, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith has fought at the highest levels, including against elite champions such as Saul &#8216;Canelo&#8217; Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More recently he fought British rival Chris Eubank Jr in two memorable bouts, defeating the Brighton man in the first fight in January 2023 before suffering a defeat in the rematch eight months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged victim reportedly suffered fractures and required surgery. Smith, nicknamed Beefy, had been due to make a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787764","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\/787764","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=787764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}