{"id":441865,"date":"2026-01-28T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441865\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:26:07","slug":"christian-mbilli-elevated-to-wbc-super-middleweight-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441865\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Mbilli elevated to WBC super middleweight champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They had previously ordered Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KO), who ran over Maciej Sulecki for the belt last June before defending it in a punishing draw with Lester Martinez, to face Hamzah Sheeraz for the belt Terence Crawford left behind. Sheeraz instead elected to go the WBO route and challenge Diego Pacheco, which hypothetically should have led the WBC ro re-order a rematch between Mbilli and Martinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As is, Martinez\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wbc-official-mandatory-status-updated-as-of-january-27th-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">case will be evaluated by the Board of Governors<\/a>,\u201d per their latest update. Said update also names Conor Benn the new mandatory challenger at 147 despite Souleymane Cissokho winning a final eliminator, so if I were Martinez, I wouldn\u2019t get my hopes up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mbilli marks the second elevated secondary champion after the WBA gave Jose Armando Resendiz the honor earlier this month. Sheeraz and Pacheco have a looming purse bid for the WBO belt, while Pavel Silyagin reportedly agreed to fight Osleys Iglesias for the IBF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They had previously ordered Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KO), who ran over Maciej Sulecki for the belt last June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-441865","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\/441865","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=441865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}