{"id":305141,"date":"2025-12-08T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305141\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:28:07","slug":"briton-jazza-dickens-says-he-has-been-upgraded-to-wba-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305141\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton Jazza Dickens says he has been upgraded to WBA world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool&#8217;s Jazza Dickens said he has been upgraded to WBA super-featherweight champion after Lamont Roach was stripped of the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Roach was crowned champion in 2023 and defended once the following year but his last two fights, which have both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cqxqggrvwlxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended in majority draws<\/a>, have taken place at lightweight and light-welterweight respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dickens, 34, last fought in July, stopping Russia&#8217;s Albert Batyrgaziev in round four to win the WBA interim belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lifetime of hard work is starting to pay off. Huge thanks to all the people who&#8217;ve put me in this position,&#8221; Dickens told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has contacted the WBA for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dickens will become Britain&#8217;s fourth reigning male champion along with Nick Ball, Lewis Crocker and Fabio Wardley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Jazza Dickens said he has been upgraded to WBA super-featherweight champion after Lamont Roach was stripped of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-305141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305141","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=305141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}