{"id":491954,"date":"2026-02-20T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491954\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:58:07","slug":"albert-bell-andy-cruz-ibf-135lbs-title-eliminator-formally-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491954\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Bell-Andy Cruz IBF 135lbs title eliminator formally ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">It says a lot about Cruz that he is taking on this tough assignment shortly after his first pro defeat. A 2020 Olympic gold medalist, Cruz came up short in his title challenge of IBF 135lbs beltholder Raymond Muratalla, 24-0 (17 KOs), on January 24 in Las Vegas. Cruz now has a chance to avenge that defeat, as a win over Bell would put him directly in line for a rematch with the undefeated titlist Muratalla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It says a lot about Cruz that he is taking on this tough assignment shortly after his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[244115,227602,64,63,802,57278,67268,227601,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-491954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-albert-bell","9":"tag-andy-cruz","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-boxing","13":"tag-floyd-schofield","14":"tag-lucas-bahdi","15":"tag-raymond-muratalla","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491954","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=491954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}