{"id":586199,"date":"2025-11-22T06:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/586199\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:04:19","slug":"abnormal-sam-noakes-would-have-fitted-in-in-the-1950s-and-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/586199\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Abnormal Sam Noakes would have fitted in in the 1950s and 60s\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201c[Noakes] is not the most gifted, but overall he\u2019s the most single-minded, confident person without arrogance. He\u2019s so not cocky, and he\u2019s probably gone the furthest of the boys; that one step further, and that\u2019s down to management [from Francis Warren] as well. He deserves his world-title shot. Henry Turner\u2019s absolutely outstanding; Skye Nicolson; Sam Webb was a good kid, a fantastic fighter. But [Noakes\u2019] overall mindset is better than anyone I\u2019ve trained. He\u2019s confident without being arrogant, and he\u2019s very comfortable in his own skin, which is fantastic. He plays everything down \u2013 he\u2019s this funny guy and it don\u2019t really bother him. But as soon as he\u2019s in that ring, Adam Booth calls him a \u2018thug\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c[Noakes] is not the most gifted, but overall he\u2019s the most single-minded, confident person without arrogance. He\u2019s so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[90922,182125,1935,115744,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-586199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-abdullah-mason","tag-alan-smith","tag-boxing","tag-sam-noakes","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115591843910199805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586199","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=586199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}