{"id":788013,"date":"2026-07-08T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788013\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:54:09","slug":"sam-noakes-denys-berinchyk-likely-for-moses-itauma-filip-hrgovic-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788013\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Noakes-Denys Berinchyk likely for Moses Itauma-Filip Hrgovic undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Sam Noakes is set to return to big-fight action as the co-main event at London\u2019s O2 Arena on August 29.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The bill is headlined by the heavyweight fight between Moses Itauma and Filip Hrgovic and the front-runner to face the heavy-handed 18-1 (16 KOs) Kent lightweight is Ukraine veteran Denys Berinchyk.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Noakes, 28, last boxed in a rust-shedding exercise in May when he fought on a Top Tier promotion at York Hall, Bethnal Green, in London\u2019s East End, stopping the 17-19-2 Mexican Benito Sanchez Garcia in two rounds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Before that, in November, Noakes shared a Fight of the Year contender with Abdullah Mason in Saudi Arabia, losing on the cards by 117-111 and twice by 115-113.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Berinchyk turned pro in 2015 and was the former WBO champion, having defeated Emanuel Navarrete for the vacant title before losing it in his first defense to Keyshawn Davis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Berinchyk, 38, is 19-1 (9 KOs) and boxed in the UK in 2022 when defeating Yvan Mendy on points in London in 2022. His last fight was against Davis, in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There is speculation that a Noakes win could lead him to a fight against Welshman Joe Cordina who was recently ruled out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/joe-cordina-charged-with-assault-and-threatening-a-person-with-an-offensive-weapon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a shot at Mason due to US visa issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Noakes is set to return to big-fight action as the co-main event at London\u2019s O2 Arena on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,371811,371810,85],"class_list":["post-788013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-moses-itauma-filip-hrgovic-undercard","tag-sam-noakes-denys-berinchyk","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788013","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=788013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}