{"id":207066,"date":"2025-10-17T18:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207066\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:09:13","slug":"chris-billam-smith-vs-roman-fress-in-doubt-as-ses-promotions-win-wbo-purse-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207066\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Billam-Smith vs. Roman Fress in doubt as SES Promotions win WBO purse bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

SES Promotions have won the right to stage Chris Billam-Smith<\/a>–Roman Fress<\/a>, who have been ordered to clash for the WBO’s ‘interim’ cruiserweight belt.<\/p>\n

Ulf Steinforth’s German outfit were the sole bidder putting up $156,921.00, which will be split 60-40 in favor of Billam-Smith. Both parties have 48 hours to confirm their participation.<\/p>\n

According to the WBO President, Gustavo Olivieri, who took to X to announce that SES intend to host the fight in Germany at one of three sites, Magdeburg, Chemnitz or Vechta, on January 14, 2026.<\/p>\n

A week ago, the WBO called for a purse bid for the fight, but nobody offered the $300,000.00 required to stage the fight and so the WBO dropped the terms to $150,000.00.<\/p>\n

No word at the time of writing on whether Billam-Smith, who is promoted by Boxxer, will accept the opportunity which would see him make $94,152.60. If he doesn’t accept, per WBO rules, he will be declared unavailable, and the sanctioning body will move to the next fighter in their ratings. The No. 3 rated Umar Salamov is the next rated fighter.<\/p>\n

The WBO champion Gilberto Ramirez<\/a> is currently on the sidelines having undergone shoulder surgery<\/a> which means he won’t fight until next year, with no specific date tabbed for a return.
Questions\/comments can be sent to Anson at elraincoat@live.co.uk and you can follow him on X @AnsonWainwr1ght<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SES Promotions have won the right to stage Chris Billam-Smith–Roman Fress, who have been ordered to clash for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-207066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}