{"id":398204,"date":"2026-01-09T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398204\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:31:07","slug":"cacace-to-challenge-for-title-in-dublin-on-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398204\/","title":{"rendered":"Cacace to challenge for title in Dublin on St Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BELFAST&#8217;S Anthony Cacace is set to face England\u2019s Jazza Dickens on St Patrick&#8217;s weekend in Dublin\u2019s 3Arena.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Dickens&#8217; first defence of the WBA super featherweight world title that he gained by default in December as the American Lamont Roach was forced to vacate following a move to the lightweight division. The bout is set to be the main event in a stacked card where fellow Irishman Pierce O\u2019Leary is expected to face Mark Chamberlain as chief support.<\/p>\n<p>Cacace\u2019s last outing came in May 2025 in an impressive ninth round TKO win over Leigh Wood to retain his IBO super-feather title. The Belfast man was then scheduled to fight former world champion Ray Ford in Saudi Arabia in August but this was cancelled due to a back injury sustained in training.<\/p>\n<p>With only one fight in 2025 Anto will be keen to get going build upon an impressive 24-1 record.<\/p>\n<p>  Do you have something to say on this issue? If so, submit a letter for publication to Conor McParland at <a href=\"https:\/\/belfastmedia.com\/mailto:c.mcparland@belfastmedia.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">c.mcparland@belfastmedia.com<\/a> or write to Editor Anthony Neeson at Belfast Media Group 43-47 Falls Road, Belfast BT12 4PD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELFAST&#8217;S Anthony Cacace is set to face England\u2019s Jazza Dickens on St Patrick&#8217;s weekend in Dublin\u2019s 3Arena. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[32598,32601,32602,703,49,48,8515,44,32596,32599,32597,6987,32600,457,82],"class_list":["post-398204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-andersonstown-news","tag-andytown-news","tag-belfast-media-group","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-comment","tag-news","tag-news-belfast","tag-north-belfast-news","tag-north-of-ireland","tag-northern-ireland","tag-south-belfast-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398204","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=398204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}