{"id":851363,"date":"2026-08-11T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851363\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:30:10","slug":"osleys-iglesias-vs-oliver-zaren-reportedly-set-for-october-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851363\/","title":{"rendered":"Osleys Iglesias vs Oliver Zaren reportedly set for October 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Christian Mbilli\u2019s Halloween showdown with Canelo Alvarez won\u2019t be that month\u2019s only October title defense, as Julius Julianis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/julianisjulius\/status\/2086966072310186364\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> that IBF super middleweight champion Osleys Iglesias will meet no. 5 Oliver Zaren on October 8th in the former\u2019s eternal stomping grounds of Quebec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A losing record against atmospheric phenomena bodes ill for his chances against a Cuban \u201cTornado.\u201d Iglesias (15-0, 14 KO) has looked like a potential vanguard of the post-Canelo era, demolishing all comers and only rarely deigning to lose a round. His last two efforts have seen him run over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/109909\/osleys-iglesias-smashes-vladimir-shishkin-in-ibf-eliminator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Shishkin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/109909\/osleys-iglesias-smashes-vladimir-shishkin-in-ibf-eliminator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavel Silyagin<\/a>, the latter victory earning Iglesias his belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Not the most stirring matchup, but Zaren is reasonably high up in the rankings, Iglesias doesn\u2019t have a mandatory challenger yet, and the other champions aren\u2019t going to touch him with a 10-foot pole, so I suppose we\u2019ve got to take what we can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Mbilli\u2019s Halloween showdown with Canelo Alvarez won\u2019t be that month\u2019s only October title defense, as Julius Julianis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-851363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851363","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=851363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}