{"id":110639,"date":"2025-05-18T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110639\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:00:08","slug":"david-morrell-sets-new-goals-following-first-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110639\/","title":{"rendered":"David Morrell sets new goals following first defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3900000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s very important to be back in the ring. I need to stay busy,\u201d Morrell said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping to fight at least two more times before the end of the year.\u201d<br \/>Morrell\u2019s end goal as stated is to fully unify the light heavyweight divisional titles. Making it clear he is open to any fights, but he wants to one day rematch Benavidez, the only fighter to defeat him.<br \/>\u201cI want to become the undisputed champion in my weight class,\u201d vowed Morrell. \u201cAt some point, I want the Benavidez rematch. I\u2019m willing to fight any of the champions at light heavyweight.&#8221;<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>For now, it\u2019s back to basics before he heads back down that path.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s very important to be back in the ring. I need to stay busy,\u201d Morrell said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,20755,20756,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-110639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-david-morrell","10":"tag-imam-khataev","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114526606260173709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}