{"id":10520,"date":"2025-02-11T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nathan-heaney-stoke-boxer-vows-to-fight-on-after-manchester-defeat\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:01:22","slug":"nathan-heaney-stoke-boxer-vows-to-fight-on-after-manchester-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nathan-heaney-stoke-boxer-vows-to-fight-on-after-manchester-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Heaney: Stoke boxer vows to fight on after Manchester defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heaney said a conversation with George Warren, part of Frank Warren&#8217;s management team, convinced him he has more to give.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;George Warren phoned me on Sunday night and he told me that whatever happens they&#8217;ve got my back, which was a real weight off my shoulders,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My dream to be a fighter is still there, so long as I can still look after myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My last two fights have been very tough. I got caught by a good shot on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I&#8217;ve had 111 fights &#8211; 90 as an amateur and 21 as a pro, and I don&#8217;t feel it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heaney also says having almost 2,000 fellow Stoke City fans behind him in Manchester was a huge incentive to carry on fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My supporters deserve it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Stokies have allowed me to achieve my dreams. They&#8217;ve been amazing for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cvgey4n0512o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heaney said a conversation with George Warren, part of Frank Warren&#8217;s management team, convinced him he has more to give. &#8220;George Warren phoned me on Sunday night and he told me that whatever happens they&#8217;ve got my back, which was a real weight off my shoulders,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My dream to be a fighter is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10522,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions\/10522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}