Anthony Cacace will have the opportunity to become a two-time world champion on Irish soil in March after confirmation he will face Liverpool’s WBA World Super-Featherweight kingpin Jazza Dickens in the 3Arena in Dublin.<\/p>\n
Cacace is a former IBO and IBF champion in the division.<\/p>\n
The Belfast boxer opted to give up the more valued IBF crown after he was mandated to take on Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez.<\/p>\n
Cacace went on to face England\u2019s Leigh Wood in Nottingham, which he won by technical knockout.<\/p>\n
Dickens (36-5, 15 KOs) makes the first defence of the belt on 14 March after a resurgence in his career, which culminated in beating Turkey\u2019s Albert Batyrgaziev last summer in an interim world title fight.<\/p>\n
Dickens was promoted to outright champion after Lamont Roach was stripped of the belt last month.<\/p>\n
Also on the card, Dublin\u2019s Pierce O\u2019Leary will put his undefeated record on the line against the formidable Mark Chamberlain.<\/p>\n
The pair will battle for the vacant IBO World Super-Lightweight championship.<\/p>\n
It is hoped it can be the first of many homecoming bouts for O\u2019Leary in his bid for world honours.<\/p>\n
“We are starting 2026 with a bang,” said the promoter of the event, Queensberry chairman Frank Warren.<\/p>\n
“Dublin has a rich boxing history, and there is no better time than St Patrick\u2019s Day weekend to bring world championship boxing back to the 3Arena.<\/p>\n
“Jazza Dickens vs. Anthony Cacace is a phenomenal match-up between two of the best in the division, and Pierce O\u2019Leary finally gets the big homecoming he deserves against a serious threat in Mark Chamberlain.”<\/p>\n
The full undercard to be announced in the coming weeks with more Irish fighters expected to feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Cacace will have the opportunity to become a two-time world champion on Irish soil in March after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-387144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387144","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=387144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}