middleweight<\/a>\/” class=”internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2″>super middleweight and a shot at WBA champion Jaime Munguia.<\/p>\n“I think that’s a good fight for me,” Charlo <\/p>\n
Charlo has fought twice since June 2021 \u2014 a unanimous decision over Jose Benavidez Jr. in November 2023 and a win over Thomas LaManna in May 2025. The inactivity has left his standing in the elite picture genuinely uncertain.<\/p>\n
The appeal of a move to 168 pounds makes sense contextually. The middleweight division has evolved significantly during Charlo’s absences, and re-establishing himself there would require beating fighters who have stayed active and improved. Super middleweight, where Munguia is establishing himself as a credible champion, offers a title opportunity. <\/p>\n
The timing of the Mazoudier fight places Charlo on the Spence-Tszyu undercard in Australia, now the first major event under PBC’s new deal with DAZN. The platform gives him a meaningful audience for a return that might otherwise struggle to generate attention given the inactivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jermall Charlo is fighting for the first time in over a year, as he faces Koen Mazoudier on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-792311","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\/792311","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=792311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}