{"id":475766,"date":"2026-02-15T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:58:09","slug":"albert-bell-awaits-foe-for-ibf-eliminator-lucas-bahdi-eyes-wba-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475766\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Bell awaits foe for IBF eliminator; Lucas Bahdi eyes WBA title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Bahdi\u2019s departure from the process is not without merit \u2013 in fact, the suggested rumors indicate an instant upgrade for him. BoxingScene has learned that plans are in place for Bahdi, a 32-year-old from Niagara Falls, to next face Floyd Schofield, 19-0 (13 KOs), from Austin, Texas, for the vacant WBA lightweight title. Should the bout get finalized, tentative plans call for an April showdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bahdi\u2019s departure from the process is not without merit \u2013 in fact, the suggested rumors indicate an instant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[32391,193113,193111,703,49,48,167570,141363,193112,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-475766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-abdullah-mason","9":"tag-alan-abel-chaves","10":"tag-albert-bell","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-floyd-schofield","15":"tag-joe-cordina","16":"tag-lucas-bahdi","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475766","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=475766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}