{"id":931724,"date":"2026-10-13T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931724\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:38:16","slug":"anthony-olascuaga-joins-matchroom-fights-olympian-yuberjen-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931724\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Olascuaga joins Matchroom, fights Olympian Yuberjen Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Matchroom Boxing has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MatchroomBoxing\/status\/2109751185234334168\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> the signing of long-reigning WBO flyweight champ Anthony Olascuaga, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sammy_rrrr\/status\/2108130988349894684\" rel=\"nofollow\">with<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChavaESPN\/status\/2108664351749996998\" rel=\"nofollow\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanRafael1\/status\/2108700654093164842\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> alleging that \u201cPrincesa\u2019s\u201d promotional debut will pit him against Olympic silver medalist Yuberjen Martinez on their November 14th Diego Pacheco vs Darius Fulghum show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Olascuaga (12-1, 9 KO) first made his name by stepping up on short notice to shoot it out with Kenshiro Teraji in 2023, then following up with a comeback knockout of Giemel Magramo five months later. He\u2019s been on a tear since, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NFov8G-WvCc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taking the WBO belt with a sensational knockout of Riku Kano<\/a> and following up with wins over the likes of \u201cBomba\u201d Gonzalez and Hiroto Kyoguchi among his five title defenses. He\u2019s young, he\u2019s capable, and he\u2019s hugely entertaining; all he\u2019s been missing so far is a platform, which this spot on TNT should provide in spades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Colombia\u2019s Martinez (7-0, 7 KO) was as legit an amateur as they come, reaching the 2016 finals before falling to the excellent Hasanboy Dusmatov and picking up two wins at Tokyo 2020 before a hometown robbery loss at the hands of Ryomei Tanaka in the quarterfinals. That said, the 34-year-old hasn\u2019t put together the sort of professional r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that merits a title shot; his first six wins came over no-hopers in his home country and his latest, which somehow featured a WBO trinket, saw him travel to Panama to beat unheralded can-crusher Angel Bethancourt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Still, he\u2019s got the pedigree, so maybe he\u2019ll make it interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchroom Boxing has announced the signing of long-reigning WBO flyweight champ Anthony Olascuaga, with multiple reports alleging that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-931724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931724","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=931724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}