{"id":1877,"date":"2023-10-17T15:07:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2023-10-17T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T15:15:35","slug":"joshua-buatsi-vs-dan-azeez-off-after-injury-in-final-training-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/joshua-buatsi-vs-dan-azeez-off-after-injury-in-final-training-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Buatsi vs Dan Azeez OFF after injury in final training session"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\" img-container shareable-item wp-caption\" style=\"max-width:540px\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"wp-image-19678771 lazyload\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" alt=\"Azeez suffered a back injury in training (Picture: Getty)\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1385159912.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\"><\/div><figcaption>Azeez suffered a back injury in training (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">The eagerly anticipated light-heavyweight showdown between Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez has been postponed after the latter suffered a back injury in his final training session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The two south Londoners, with Buatsi from Croydon and Azeez representing Lewisham, were set to meet in a final eliminator for the WBA title currently held by Dmitry Bivol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2018I\u2019m devastated for this to happen on fight week,\u2019 said Azeez. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2018It still hasn\u2019t sunk in. I\u2019ve never had to withdraw from a fight in my career before. I want to apologise to all the fans, especially those travelling to the fight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2018I am also extremely sorry to my opponent Joshua Buatsi, to my promoter and to everyone involved who has worked so hard on this date. I hope this fight can be rescheduled as soon as possible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><em>More to follow<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azeez suffered a back injury in training (Picture: Getty) The eagerly anticipated light-heavyweight showdown between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.winedrinker.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}