{"id":535233,"date":"2026-03-14T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535233\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:09:09","slug":"dickens-v-cacace-dublin-world-title-bout-between-veterans-finely-poised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535233\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickens v Cacace: Dublin world title bout between veterans finely poised"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the champion, it was a case of third time being a charm as previous title shots at super-bantamweight in 2016 against Guillermo Rigondeaux and featherweight in 2021 against Kid Galahad<\/a> came up short.<\/p>\n

However, the move up in weight and switch to Dubai-based coach Albert Aryrapetyan has resulted in a remarkable upturn in fortunes.<\/p>\n

After boxing his way to an eye-catching 10-round decision over Zelfa Barrett in February 2025, he showed a spiteful side when stopping 2020 Olympics gold medallist Albert Batyrgaziev to take the ‘interim’ WBA title five months later, improving to 36 wins with five defeats.<\/p>\n

The Merseysider boxed superbly in a battle of southpaws, crouching and thudding home the right jab despite conceding the reach advantage with the Russian’s looping overhand shots whistling off target.<\/p>\n

It’s somewhat similar on Saturday with Cacace holding the physical advantages, so perhaps forcing a high-pace battle on the inside will be his plan, posing a different challenge as the first southpaw Cacace has faced since a Celtic title win over Ronnie Clark in 2015.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, he’s a southpaw and it’s been over 10 years since I’ve fought a southpaw but I’m not really thinking like that. I’m just thinking about what I can do,” Cacace – whose record stands at 24-1 – said of that conundrum.<\/p>\n

“I watched a bit of the Barrett fight. You can look into all these things, but styles make fights and I can punch hard.<\/p>\n

“I’m just going to have to see how Jazza can deal with my power and accuracy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the champion, it was a case of third time being a charm as previous title shots at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-535233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535233","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=535233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}