{"id":652970,"date":"2026-05-06T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652970\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:07:16","slug":"boxing-live-nikita-tszyu-v-oscar-diaz-blog-results-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/652970\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing live: Nikita Tszyu v Oscar Diaz blog, results, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikita Tszyu can become a world champion and is being lined up for blockbuster bouts with American superstars Keith Thurman and Tony Harrison if he wins on Wednesday night in Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the view of Tszyu\u2019s promoter George Rose, who revealed \u201cbig announcements are coming up\u201d as the \u2018Butcher\u2019 says he wants to hurt spicy Spaniard Oscar Diaz at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed \u2018The Bull\u2019 or \u2018El Toro\u2019, Diaz (16-0, 6KO) has promised to knockout Nikita in a big-time boilover before forcing \u2018Tszyucastle\u2019 to be renamed \u2018Diaz-castle\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the action in our live blog below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikita Tszyu can become a world champion and is being lined up for blockbuster bouts with American superstars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[38999,315812,64,63,689,802,28350,315809,11862,2105,259986,12412,673,10668,11876,677,289570,315811,264201,315806,315808,284116,85,315807,294779,315810,226889],"class_list":["post-652970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-abdullah-mason","tag-american-raider","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-boxing","tag-brendan-bradford","tag-confident-american","tag-george-rose","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-handshake-snub","tag-matt-king","tag-new-south-wales","tag-newcastle","tag-nikita-tszyu","tag-oceania","tag-oscar-diaz","tag-professional-fighting-debut","tag-punching-bag","tag-rising-australian-star","tag-sliding-doors-fight","tag-sparring-partners","tag-sports","tag-super-middleweight-bout","tag-toughest-test","tag-young-career","tag-young-prospect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652970","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=652970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}