{"id":954322,"date":"2026-11-01T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954322\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:28:09","slug":"wbo-officially-strips-denzel-bentley-of-middleweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954322\/","title":{"rendered":"WBO officially strips Denzel Bentley of middleweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/4SsSMFt4kV1xdCOCNe3Xop\">Denzel Bentley <\/a>was officially stripped of his 160-pound title for failing to notify the sanctioning body that he would fight <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/3rbrOc2w6dy4EhC3TsWPOh\">Yoenli Hernandez<\/a>, his mandatory challenger and No. 1 contender.<\/p>\n<p>The WBO gave Bentley and Hernandez 24 hours to inform them of their decision on October 22.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley&#8217;s problem is his current obligation. The 31-year-old from London is scheduled to face <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/2FIexgHu9fAZDGlmEDaXYF\">Shane Mosley Jr<\/a>. on a Zuffa Boxing show on November 7 at Copper Box Arena at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. However, prior to that announcement, the WBO ordered a purse bid for Bentley vs. Hernandez on September 29.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors Boxing Promotions, the lone participant, won the rights to that bout with a $200,000 bid. Bentley was entitled to at least 75%, or $150,000, while Hernandez would\u2019ve earned $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>In the immediate aftermath, Hernandez (11-0, 9 KOs) will face the highest-rated contender. Right now, <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/2hU1n2wdEqMDQhk6wKxrso\">Vito Mielnicki,<\/a> slotted at No. 2 in the sanctioning body, would likely get the call. The 24-year-old from Belleville, New Jersey, is coming off a one-sided victory over former titleholder challenger Austin \u201cAmmo\u201d Williams.<\/p>\n<p>In Hernandez\u2019s last appearance, on August 22 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, he eked out a majority decision against Francisco Veron.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denzel Bentley was officially stripped of his 160-pound title for failing to notify the sanctioning body that he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[72640,703,184736,711,49,48,82,1134,2939],"class_list":["post-954322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-the-ring","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954322","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=954322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}