{"id":462397,"date":"2025-09-30T06:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462397\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:32:14","slug":"anthony-crolla-explains-why-british-boxing-is-in-a-major-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/462397\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Crolla explains why British boxing is in a \u2018major crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Yet there is another reason, Crolla believes. The growing influence of Turki Alalshikh\u2019s General Entertainment Authority, and their desire to pack cards to bursting point, has seen a dip in both the standard and frequency of other shows. Understandably, the leading promoters are saving their brightest stars for events associated with Alalshikh\u2019s deep pockets and, consequently, not showcasing them independently. The domino effect of that \u2013 with big independent events now so rare, the opportunities on independent undercards are even more so \u2013 is showing no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yet there is another reason, Crolla believes. The growing influence of Turki Alalshikh\u2019s General Entertainment Authority, and their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[154781,1935,4496,4495,56140,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-462397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-crolla","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-boxingscene","12":"tag-british-boxing","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115291851601052229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462397","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=462397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}