{"id":775068,"date":"2026-07-02T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775068\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:24:10","slug":"tim-tszyu-designated-wbo-no-1-at-junior-middleweight-in-newest-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775068\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tszyu designated WBO No. 1 at junior middleweight in newest rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the wake of the ratings shift necessary to accommodate former champion Xander Zayas losing his unified belts to Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis last weekend, the World Boxing Organization has elected to elevate former champion Tim Tszyu to the No. 1 contender position in this month\u2019s new\u00a0\u00a0junior middleweight rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">31-year-old Tszyu, 27-3 (18 KOs), is set to face 36-year-old former unified world champion Errol \u201cThe Truth\u201d Spence Jnr, 28-1 (22 KOs), on Saturday, July 25, in the main event of a PBC Pay-Per-View broadcast, live on Prime Video from Afterpay Arena in Tszyu\u2019s hometown of Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of the ratings shift necessary to accommodate former champion Xander Zayas losing his unified belts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,76463,49,48,274970,82,5154],"class_list":["post-775068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-brandon-adams","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-errol-spence-jnr","tag-sports","tag-tim-tszyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775068","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=775068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}