{"id":227003,"date":"2025-06-30T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227003\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:07:14","slug":"michael-conlan-belfast-boxer-set-to-fight-in-dublin-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227003\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Conlan: Belfast boxer set to fight in Dublin in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having lost in previous world featherweight title challenges, it was always going to be a long road back for another shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After his defeat to Gill in December 2023, Conlan sat out 2024 before admitting the only reason he was continuing to fight was to win <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c5yvn2e9rl2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that elusive world title.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is must-win territory from here on in and under head trainer Grant Smith, he is making the adjustments required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Belfast man has insisted he will not jump into action before he knows he is ready as this time a defeat will be the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will take a little time to fully click yet Conlan still has the ability to draw a crowd and that pulling power opens doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should he overcome Bateson, and possibly another test at a higher level, then a shot at one of the current champions is not beyond the realms of possibility next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there is absolutely no room for error from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having lost in previous world featherweight title challenges, it was always going to be a long road back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-227003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114773179978508706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227003","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=227003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}