{"id":278112,"date":"2025-11-11T17:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278112\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:47:07","slug":"christian-mbilli-reportedly-pursuing-jaime-munguia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278112\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Mbilli reportedly pursuing Jaime Munguia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yesterday, Mike Coppinger <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/christian-mbilli-jaime-mungia-fight-early-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that super middleweight contenders Christian Mbilli and Jaime Munguia were negotiating a clash \u201cin the first quarter of 2026.\u201d Lance Pugmire later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/lester-martinez-moves-to-probox-tv-main-event-as-mbilli-opts-for-munguia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expanded on the news<\/a>, confirming it with Eye of the Tiger Management\u2019s Camille Estephan, ProBox\u2019s Garry Jonas, and Lester Martinez, whom the WBC ordered Mbilli to rematch after their brutal draw in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This left Mbilli to brutalize Maciej Sulecki for the interim belt while Munguia Surace, only for Munguia to fail a drug test and leave his future once again in doubt. Mbilli instead faced the aforementioned Martinez, starting strong but fading late to settle for a draw in one of the year\u2019s best action fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Martinez was supposed to get another crack at Mbilli, but here we are. Per Pugmire, Martinez will look to headline a ProBox show in March before targeting whoever wins this alliterative showdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for the fight itself, it still looks like pure fireworks between offensive powerhouses. It\u2019s just dumb for the WBC to allow this without stripping Mbilli of the belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, Mike Coppinger reported that super middleweight contenders Christian Mbilli and Jaime Munguia were negotiating a clash \u201cin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}