{"id":411952,"date":"2026-01-14T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411952\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:02:07","slug":"callum-smith-david-morrell-wbo-interim-clash-stuck-in-a-holding-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411952\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Smith-David Morrell WBO interim clash stuck in a holding pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">Liverpool\u2019s Smith, 31-2 (22 KOs) holds the secondary version of the WBO 175lbs belt, while Morrell \u2013 a U.S.-based Cuban boxer \u2013 remains his mandatory challenger. The bout was ordered last July, shortly after Morrell rebounded from a loss to David Benavidez with a narrow victory over Imam Khataev via 10-round, split decision in their July 12 thriller in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s Smith, 31-2 (22 KOs) holds the secondary version of the WBO 175lbs belt, while Morrell \u2013 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,33554,33553,142629,217873,85,8941],"class_list":["post-411952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-callum-smith","tag-david-morrell","tag-interim-titles","tag-smith-morrell","tag-sports","tag-wbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411952","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=411952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}