{"id":248632,"date":"2025-11-07T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248632\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:04:09","slug":"joshua-buatsi-zach-parker-immediate-rematch-request-rejected-by-wba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248632\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Buatsi-Zach Parker Immediate Rematch Request Rejected By WBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ring has learned that the WBA have rejected Zach Parker\u2019s request for an immediate rematch with Joshua Buatsi<\/a>.
Last Saturday night, Buatsi (20-1, 13 KOs) was awarded a disputed majority decision over Parker<\/a> (26-2, 18 KOs) after their scrappy 10-round light heavyweight fight at Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live Arena.
Although the fight failed to catch fire, Parker<\/a> followed his gameplan to a tee and Buatsi struggled mightily to track him down. At the final bell, the vast majority of observers expected Parker to have his hand raised.<\/p>\n

The decision in Buatsi\u2019s favour generated a huge amount of controversy and Parker\u2019s team lodged an immediate appeal with the WBA.<\/p>\n

On Thursday the sanctioning body informed Parker\u2019s team and Queensberry Promotions that, having evaluated the appeal, they have decided not to impose an immediate rematch.<\/p>\n

Despite the win, Buatsi dropped from No. 5 to No. 8 in The Ring\u2019s latest ratings<\/a>. He will now target a 2026 world title shot and will be an interested observer when David Benavidez defends his WBC title against Anthony Yarde<\/a> on Ring IV which takes place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 22. <\/p>\n

Although Parker has received a huge amount of public support, he will now want to plot a route back into contention as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

It is believed that he could target the popular Liam Cameron<\/a> (24-7-1, 10 KOs) who won a controversial decision of his own over Troy Jones on Saturday\u2019s card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ring has learned that the WBA have rejected Zach Parker\u2019s request for an immediate rematch with Joshua…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248633,"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-248632","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\/248632","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=248632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}