{"id":589754,"date":"2026-04-06T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:02:08","slug":"callum-smith-out-of-david-morrell-fight-ben-whittaker-to-headline-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589754\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Smith out of David Morrell fight, Ben Whittaker to headline card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smith (31-2, 22 KOs) was supposed to defend his WBO interim light heavyweight title against the Cuban in his hometown of Liverpool at M&amp;S Bank Arena. <\/p>\n<p>Smith hasn&#8217;t fought since February 2025 and it&#8217;s not clear if the bout will be rescheduled. The specifics regarding his injury are unknown. <\/p>\n<p>Morrell (12-1, 9 KOs) was set to box outside of the United States for the first time as a pro. <\/p>\n<p>Smith is ranked No. 3 by The Ring at 175 pounds while Morrell sits at No. 6. <\/p>\n<p>Ben Whittaker&#8217;s light heavyweight clash with Braian Suarez will now headline the event. <\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith (31-2, 22 KOs) was supposed to defend his WBO interim light heavyweight title against the Cuban in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,44,85,2974],"class_list":{"0":"post-589754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-object-object","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-boxing-articles","13":"tag-boxing-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-the-ring"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589754","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=589754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}