{"id":99127,"date":"2026-08-07T03:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/irish-boxer-reeves-making-progress-in-hospital\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:23:25","slug":"irish-boxer-reeves-making-progress-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/irish-boxer-reeves-making-progress-in-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish boxer Reeves &#039;making progress&#039; in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A head and shoulders image of Michael Reeves in the ring\" height=\"1911\" src=\"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/bbc_us_articles_995\/f56eea53be1f9ae328f3a380457bd6ac\" width=\"3396\" data-uuid=\"2706be75-9f1e-3531-a398-44f0736bbca9\"><figcaption>Lee Reeves was hospitalised after his knockout defeat by Gary Cully on Saturday night [Getty Images]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Queensberry promoter Frank Warren has said that Irish boxer Lee Reeves is &quot;making progress&quot; after being hospitalised following his fight in Dublin on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old&#39;s condition was described as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/czxqwp57pvvo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\">&quot;critical but stable&quot;<\/a> after he was admitted for treatment following his defeat to Gary Cully.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves was fighting for the vacant BUI Celtic super-lightweight title but was knocked out in the 10th round at the 3Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Limerick southpaw was stretchered out of the ring after the fight.<\/p>\n<p>An update provided by Warren on Thursday struck a positive note.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My team have been in touch with Lee Reeves&#39; team and he is making progress. That is what we&#39;re hearing and thank the Lord for that,&quot; Warren said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;With Lee it&#39;s all about time. Time hopefully can be a healer.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Warren added that his hope was that Reeves would be able to &quot;get back to his family as soon as possible&quot;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cz0prxzlpgxo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\">Boxing schedule and results 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/crgy3zy4meyo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\">Watch every Born to Brawl episode<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>         More boxing from the BBC       <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/cl5q9dk9jl3o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\">Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"tracking-img\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?s=646754&amp;p=sport.boxing.articles.cx2dp2lgw1do.page&amp;x1=%5Burn%3Abbc%3Aoptimo%3Aasset%3Acx2dp2lgw1do%5D&amp;x4=%5Ben-gb%5D&amp;x5=%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fsport%2Fboxing%2Farticles%2Fcx2dp2lgw1do%5D&amp;x7=%5Barticle%5D&amp;x8=%5Bsynd_nojs_ISAPI%5D&amp;x9=%5BIrish+boxer+Reeves+%27making+progress%27+in+hospital%5D&amp;x11=%5B2026-08-06T20%3A47%3A36.621Z%5D&amp;x12=%5B2026-08-06T22%3A33%3A17.278Z%5D&amp;x19=%5Byahoo.north.america%5D\" width=\"1\" data-uuid=\"86da17d5-cfdb-3728-b43b-7240ed1cf798\"><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/irish-boxer-reeves-making-progress-204741833.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Reeves was hospitalised after his knockout defeat by Gary Cully on Saturday night [Getty Images] Queensberry promoter Frank Warren has said that Irish boxer Lee Reeves is &quot;making progress&quot; after being hospitalised following his fight in Dublin on Saturday night. The 31-year-old&#39;s condition was described as &quot;critical but stable&quot; after he was admitted for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30130,6538,2861,3804,30131,6795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}