{"id":711764,"date":"2026-06-03T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711764\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:17:10","slug":"wba-orders-anthony-cacace-to-make-mandatory-title-defense-against-interim-champion-elnur-samedov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711764\/","title":{"rendered":"WBA orders Anthony Cacace to make mandatory title defense against interim champion Elnur Samedov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The \u2060World Boxing Association\u2019s Championships Committee has officially ordered their super featherweight champion, Anthony Cacace 25-1 (9 KOs) to make a mandatory title defense against interim champion and mandatory challenger Elnur Samedov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The camps have until July 14 to reach a deal. If they can\u2019t reach an agreement, the bout will be sent to a purse bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cacace captured the WBA\u2019s super featherweight title in March, via a unanimous 12-round decision over Jazza Dickens in Dublin, Ireland. Samedov became their interim champion by defeating John Lenon Guti\u00e9rrez of Colombia via TKO 11 in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Under WBA Championship Rule C.10, \u201c\u2026a champion is required to defend the title against the highest-ranked available contender within 120 days of winning the championship, provided that no official challenger has been designated.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2060World Boxing Association\u2019s Championships Committee has officially ordered their super featherweight champion, Anthony Cacace 25-1 (9 KOs)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[258231,703,49,48,258230,82],"class_list":["post-711764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-cacace","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-elnur-samedov","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711764","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=711764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}