{"id":211152,"date":"2025-10-19T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211152\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:33:11","slug":"hamzah-sheeraz-wants-u-s-return-for-next-fight-targeting-big-big-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/211152\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamzah Sheeraz Wants U.S. Return For Next Fight, Targeting ‘Big, Big Names’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamzah Sheeraz<\/a> enjoyed his American coming-out party so much that he has set his sights on doing more damage across the pond in 2026.
Sheeraz (22-0-1, 18 KOs) announced himself in a big way at super middleweight by stopping Edgar Berlanga in five rounds<\/a> on July 12 in the main event of The Ring III at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Flushing, New York.
The fight was Sheeraz’s first in the U.S. and came five months after his controversial split draw<\/a> with WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames.<\/p>\n

The pressure and the stakes were high, but the Ilford man rose to the occasion and now he wants to do it all over again.<\/p>\n

“A million percent,” he told The Ring<\/a>‘s Louis Hart when asked about returning to the States for a big fight. “It’d be an honour to share the ring with those guys.<\/p>\n

“Don’t get me wrong, I’ll go in there with every intention to completely destroy that person, but at the same time these names you just mentioned [Jermall Charlo, Caleb Plant, Jaime Munguia, Jose Armando Resendiz], they’re great fighters, big fighters in America and an honour for myself to go in there and continue to prove what I can do in the 168-pound division.<\/p>\n

“My mindset is I want to fight these fighters from America or these big, big, big names. Fighters who, when you put my name with them, I’m down as an underdog.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old still wants to return to the ring in the next four months, however, and could do so with a super middleweight title on the line, if Crawford vacates a belt or two.<\/p>\n

For now, he has to wait.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully February,” he added. “It’ll be nice to get out again, we’ll see what Frank Warren and His Excellency [Turki Alalshikh] say, we’ll see what the team says and I’ll just continue to keep working hard.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamzah Sheeraz enjoyed his American coming-out party so much that he has set his sights on doing more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211153,"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-211152","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\/211152","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=211152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}