{"id":502429,"date":"2025-10-15T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502429\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:07:19","slug":"belfasts-new-world-champion-set-for-a-blockbuster-bout-in-london-with-conor-benn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502429\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast\u2019s new world champion set for a blockbuster bout in London with Conor Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lewis Crocker celebrates victory over Paddy Donovan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2ad16a91-c491-467a-8129-e0fb7f749d61.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lewis Crocker celebrates victory over Paddy Donovan<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Northern Ireland\u2019s world welterweight champion Lewis Crocker is in line for a blockbuster showdown at the O2 Arena in London against Conor Benn next year, with a mouth-watering title fight versus the legendary Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas another option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Crocker has the world at his feet with big money contests on the horizon after winning the IBF belt at a packed Windsor Park last month, beating Limerick\u2019s Paddy Donovan on points in a split decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Crocker celebrates victory over Paddy Donovan Northern Ireland\u2019s world welterweight champion Lewis Crocker is in line for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,30649,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-502429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-steven-beacom","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115380227620832298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502429","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=502429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}