{"id":352076,"date":"2025-12-17T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352076\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:15:07","slug":"jazza-dickens-liverpool-fighters-title-defence-called-off-after-injury-to-hayato-tsutsumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352076\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazza Dickens: Liverpool fighter’s title defence called off after injury to Hayato Tsutsumi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jazza Dickens’ first defence of his WBA super-featherweight world title has been called off because of a facial injury to opponent Hayato Tsutsumi. <\/p>\n

The fight was scheduled to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 27 December.<\/p>\n

But Japanese prospect Tsutsumi, who is unbeaten in eight bouts, sustained an orbital floor fracture – an injury to the bone beneath the eye socket – during training, according to the Ring magazine, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Liverpool’s Dickens was recently upgraded to super-featherweight world champion<\/a> after American Lamont Roach Jr was stripped of the title.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old has won 36 of his 41 fights but last fought in July when he stopped Russia’s Albert Batyrgaziev in round four to win the WBA interim belt.<\/p>\n

“This morning, as soon as I opened my eyes and when I looked at my messages, I got a body shot,” Dickens said in a video on his YouTube channel. <\/p>\n

“That’s what if feels like when you get bad news. Yeah, fight’s off.<\/p>\n

“Experience teaches you along the way that these things happen. But I would say the worst time this has happened is obviously now because for whatever is on the line – world title fight, first defence.”<\/p>\n

Dickens is Britain’s fourth reigning male champion, along with Nick Ball, Lewis Crocker and Fabio Wardley.<\/p>\n

He has competed across three weight classes and was British champion at super-bantamweight and European champion at featherweight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazza Dickens’ first defence of his WBA super-featherweight world title has been called off because of a facial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-352076","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\/352076","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=352076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}