{"id":478348,"date":"2024-02-15T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T23:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478348"},"modified":"2024-02-15T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T23:25:05","slug":"wayne-rooney-in-discussions-over-boxing-debut","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wayne-rooney-in-discussions-over-boxing-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney in discussions over boxing debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-England and Red Devils forward Wayne Rooney has discussed fighting with a boxing promoter at 1 of their future events.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne (38) and his agents have talked about the potential for him to box on a Misfits Boxing promotion, but no details have been provided yet.<\/p>\n<p>Misfits Boxing has recently organized boxing events featuring YouTube stars KSI and Logan Paul and other famous businessmen and reality stars.<\/p>\n<p>If the former Man United superstar agrees, he will be part of the Misfits&#8217; crossover boxing series.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne was recently fired from his role as head coach of Championship team Birmingham City. Rooney also led Derby County in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> tier of English football and MLS club D.C. United from 2022 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Everton striker loves boxing and has cheered for Ricky Hatton, Amir Khan, and the Smith brothers.<\/p>\n<p>As Misfits is not part of the British Boxing Board of Control, Wayne would not be boxing as a professional boxer, but millions would watch what he can do in the ring.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8| Wayne Rooney is considering stepping into the ring for a Misfits fight. The former Manchester United and England star has held talks about competing in one of their upcoming events.<\/p>\n<p>Kalle Sauerland is the promoter of the series, which features YouTube stars like KSI and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BXdaVJBF5I\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BXdaVJBF5I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CentreGoals. (@centregoals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/centregoals\/status\/1757858828761354517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-England and Red Devils forward Wayne Rooney has discussed fighting with a boxing promoter at 1 of their future events. Wayne (38) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478349,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18144,21695],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18146,21696],"acf":{"announce":"The former Manchester United striker can fight in a boxing event.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478364,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478348\/revisions\/478364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478348"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478348"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}