{"id":808976,"date":"2026-10-20T20:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808976\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:58:14","slug":"brad-pauls-boxer-hopes-for-december-fight-after-bout-falls-through-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808976\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pauls: Boxer hopes for December fight after bout falls through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pauls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cevwze1qge9o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the British title in July 2024<\/a> when he stopped Nathan Heaney in a rematch, four months after the pair had drawn their first title fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on to lose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cjr28j54121o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a European title fight against Denzel Bentley<\/a> in December 2024 and only fought once last year on a low-key card in Torquay, before returning to the big stage against Thompson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pauls hopes he has another big fight lined up next year, making a bout this side of Christmas key to his preparations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s massively important I fight again before the end of the year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a bigger fight lined up for February time, back on the big stage, and I want to give myself every advantage for these big fights, so I need to be active and to get out before the end of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauls won the British title in July 2024 when he stopped Nathan Heaney in a rematch, four months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808976","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\/808976","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=808976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}