{"id":265425,"date":"2025-07-14T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265425\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T23:20:15","slug":"the-very-tough-watch-of-galal-yafai-francisco-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265425\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;very tough watch&#8217; of Galal Yafai-Francisco Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cIt was a tough watch, even for me,\u201d said Kal, who has seen more than his fair share, amateur and pro. \u201cI think [middle brother] Gamal looked at me, I think it was round nine, or 10. And he\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, you might have to go around to the corner, you know\u2019. Like, \u2018You\u2019re going to have to pull this\u2019. But I just waited for about 10, 15 seconds. And then he kind of threw something back; landed it. And then he kind of moves out of the way. And I just, I was like, \u2018He\u2019s okay\u2019. I know Galal better than anyone. So I just knew that he\u2019ll be able to see it through and not to say too much, but obviously he got dropped in the last round.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was a tough watch, even for me,\u201d said Kal, who has seen more than his fair share,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4495,101271,84615,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-265425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxingscene","10":"tag-francisco-rodriguez","11":"tag-galal-yafai","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114854154946757692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265425","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=265425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}