{"id":322835,"date":"2025-12-03T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322835\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:34:08","slug":"boxing-wbc-bout-for-hamzah-sheeraz-as-terence-crawford-stripped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322835\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: WBC bout for Hamzah Sheeraz as Terence Crawford stripped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Briton Hamzah Sheeraz will fight for the vacant WBC super-middleweight world title after Terence Crawford was stripped of the belt.<\/p>\n

Crawford won the belt from Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez<\/a> in September after jumping up three weights to beat the Mexican and become the undisputed champion.<\/p>\n

The WBC have now stripped Crawford with president Mauricio Sulaiman claiming the American didn’t pay his sanctioning fees.<\/p>\n

Sheeraz, 26, will take on Canada’s Christian Mbilli for the vacant title in what will be his second world title bout and first at super-middleweight.<\/p>\n

The Slough fighter drew with WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames<\/a> last February, in an underwhelming performance over 12 rounds.<\/p>\n

Sheeraz is unbeaten in 23 fights while 30-year-old Mbilli is also undefeated, with 29 wins and one draw on his record.<\/p>\n

A date for the contest has not been confirmed. Mbilli fought in September while in July Sheeraz moved up to super-middleweight for the first time, knocking out Edgar Berlanga<\/a> in five rounds.<\/p>\n

Crawford remains the WBA ‘Super’, WBO and IBF super-middleweight champion, but is yet to confirm his next move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Briton Hamzah Sheeraz will fight for the vacant WBC super-middleweight world title after Terence Crawford was stripped of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-322835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}