{"id":1187003,"date":"2026-09-05T01:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1187003\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:25:18","slug":"taylor-bevan-v-emmet-brennan-croke-park-hosts-super-middleweight-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1187003\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Bevan v Emmet Brennan: Croke Park hosts super-middleweight bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bevan turned professional with Eddie Hearn&#8217;s Matchroom Boxing in 2024, two years after winning Commonwealth Games silver representing Wales at Birmingham 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So far in his career, he has been supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c2d5ez04x3yo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a large and loud following,<\/a> with Dublin the latest destination for his fans to watch him in action. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having started his pro journey with Welsh trainer Colin Jones, Bevan recently made the switch to Manchester, where he is now looked after by Jamie Moore and Nigel Travis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their gym includes cruiserweight Pat Brown, welterweight Conah Walker and heavyweight Dave Allen, who has featured Bevan in a number of light-hearted posts on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Allen is also in action on Saturday as the chief support when he takes on Thomas Carty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite Bevan appearing to be the target of some humorous posts from Allen on social media, the man from Southampton said the popular heavyweight has significantly helped his development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bevan laughed as he said: &#8220;When you first meet him, he likes to rip into people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s not ripping me as much now and obviously he has been building up to his fight on the same card as me, I think he might get under my skin on fight week more than my opponent will!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But he&#8217;s brilliant to be around and has been a massive help for me in my career, he&#8217;s always someone I can go to for advice and technical guidance because his knowledge of the sport is unlike anything I&#8217;ve seen before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bevan turned professional with Eddie Hearn&#8217;s Matchroom Boxing in 2024, two years after winning Commonwealth Games silver representing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1187004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1187003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117215830692475450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187003","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=1187003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}