{"id":937618,"date":"2026-10-23T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937618\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:48:10","slug":"wbo-denies-denzel-bentleys-appeal-orders-him-to-face-yoenli-hernandez-or-vacate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937618\/","title":{"rendered":"WBO denies Denzel Bentley\u2019s appeal, orders him to face Yoenli Hernandez or vacate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Another day, another Zuffa signee losing his belt for shirking his responsibilities. WBO president Gustavo Olivieri <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OlivieriLaw\/status\/2113371192962712011\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that the sanctioning body has denied middleweight champion Denzel Bentley\u2019s appeal for a voluntary defense, giving him 24 hours to commit to facing mandatory challenger Yoenli Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bentley (22-3-1, 18 KO) was the beneficiary of Janibek Alimkhanuly\u2019s failed drug test and subsequent emigration to the super middleweight division, as the move elevated the interim belt he\u2019d claimed against Endry Saavendra in April to the real deal. That came with conditions, namely a mandated showdown with Hernandez (11-0, 9 KO) that failed to produce a a contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As for who\u2019ll fight Hernandez for it, Vito Mielnicki Jr sits behind him at no. 2, followed by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/119504\/erislandy-lara-vs-tim-tszyu-set-planned-for-late-november\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">otherwise-occupied Tim Tszyu<\/a>, Michael Zerafa (lmao), and Fiodor Czerkaszyn. We\u2019ll let you know as soon as an enterprising bachelor steps up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another day, another Zuffa signee losing his belt for shirking his responsibilities. WBO president Gustavo Olivieri announced that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-937618","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\/937618","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=937618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}