{"id":35339,"date":"2025-09-28T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/james-degale-briton-wins-on-bare-knuckle-boxing-debut-against-matt-floyd\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:42:03","slug":"james-degale-briton-wins-on-bare-knuckle-boxing-debut-against-matt-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/james-degale-briton-wins-on-bare-knuckle-boxing-debut-against-matt-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"James DeGale: Briton wins on bare-knuckle boxing debut against Matt Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Britain&#8217;s James DeGale earned victory by unanimous decision against Matt Floyd on his bare-knuckle boxing debut in Manchester.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">DeGale, an Olympic gold medallist and former two-time IBF super-middleweight champion, came out on top of a scrappy affair with the judges scoring it 48-43, 48-43 and 47-44 in his favour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian Floyd was deducted three points during the fight for headbutting DeGale and putting him in a headlock, with the 39-year-old Briton doing some of his best work via his jab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The holding and punching, it&#8217;s crazy stuff. But I&#8217;m 1-0 and that&#8217;s all that matters,&#8221; said DeGale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was tough but in a boxing fight he wouldn&#8217;t last two rounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bout was DeGale&#8217;s first since a punishing loss to Chris Eubank Jr six years ago that ended his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">DeGale made history as Britain&#8217;s first boxer to win both Olympic gold and a professional world title in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/cdx2gv1enr9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s James DeGale earned victory by unanimous decision against Matt Floyd on his bare-knuckle boxing debut in Manchester. DeGale, an Olympic gold medallist and former two-time IBF super-middleweight champion, came out on top of a scrappy affair with the judges scoring it 48-43, 48-43 and 47-44 in his favour. Australian Floyd was deducted three points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35341,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35339\/revisions\/35341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}