{"id":382484,"date":"2026-01-02T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:22:07","slug":"jose-armando-resendiz-now-full-champion-must-fight-bektemir-melikuziev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382484\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Armando Resendiz now full champion, must fight Bektemir Melikuziev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So long and good riddance to that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/112245\/jose-armando-resendiz-vs-edgar-berlanga-reportedly-leads-barrios-vs-garcia-undercard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlanga fight<\/a>, apparently. Fernando Sabatini <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FerSabatiniBox\/status\/2006773860511986005\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> that the WBA has officially elevated former interim super middleweight champion Jose Armando Resendiz to replace the departing Terence Crawford, ordering \u201cToro\u201d to take on mandatory challenger Bektemir Melikuziev in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Resendiz (16-2, 11 KO), a longtime middleweight whose best prior victory came over the shell of Jarrett Hurd, derailed PBC\u2019s long-percolating plan to pit Caleb Plant against Jermall Charlo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2025\/5\/31\/24440790\/armando-resendiz-stuns-caleb-plant-jermall-charlo-stops-lamanna-highlights-results-boxing-news-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outfoxing and overpowering \u201cSweethands\u201d for the belt in May<\/a>. He can now officially call himself a world champion, and while it\u2019s easy to write him off as a fluke, it\u2019s wroth remembering he\u2019s just 26 and less than 20 fights into his pro career. Every reason to believe he\u2019s a late bloomer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Neither of these guys are going to be challenging for the undisputed title anytime soon, but it\u2019s a well-matched scrap with Fight of the Year of the Week potential. I\u2019m here for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So long and good riddance to that Berlanga fight, apparently. Fernando Sabatini reports that the WBA has officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-382484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382484","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=382484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}