Catterall (32-2, 14 KOs) is coming off a knockout win over Ekow Essuman in November, putting in a stylish performance on the Conor Benn vs. Chris Eubank Jr. undercard.<\/p>\n
Rolly Romero is the full WBA champion at 147 pounds.<\/p>\n
Hamzah Sheeraz will get another crack at a middleweight title in Egypt.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n
Sheeraz (22-0-1, 18 KOs) positioned himself for a world title fight after beating Edgar Berlanga with a Round 5 knockout in July last year.<\/p>\n
The Brit had fought for the middleweight title in February 2025 but drew with defending champion Carlos Adames in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, before moving up a weight class.<\/p>\n
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Also on the card is Cuban heavyweight Frank Sanchez who will face American prospect Richard Torrez Jr.<\/p>\n
Torrez (14-0, 12 KOs), 26, won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics and is considered one of America’s most promising young fighters. But he faces a tough step up against Sanchez (25-1, 18 KOs), whose only defeat came against German Agit Kabayel, the WBC interim titleholder, in May 2024.<\/p>\n
Usyk will defend his WBC heavyweight title against Verhoeven in front of the Pyramids of Giza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamzah Sheeraz will face Alem Begic for the WBO super middleweight title on the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Rico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-583211","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583211","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=583211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}