{"id":349688,"date":"2026-01-03T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:29:13","slug":"new-world-champion-crowned-after-terence-crawford-stripped-of-final-title-following-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349688\/","title":{"rendered":"New world champion crowned after Terence Crawford stripped of final title following retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jose Armando Resendiz has been crowned WBA super middleweight champion in the wake of Terence Crawford’s retirement.<\/p>\n

The Mexican boxer picked up the interim strap in May with an upset win over Caleb Plant.<\/p>\n

\"Resendiz<\/a><\/p>\n

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Resendiz is the new WBA super middleweight championCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Resendiz (16-2) opened up as a sizeable 11\/1 underdog with the bookies, but overcame the former IBF 168lbs champion via split decision in a high octane display.<\/p>\n

Uzbekistan’s Bektemir Melikuziev has been boosted to the No.1 spot in the WBA rankings.<\/p>\n

And while a mandatory fight between the pair could be ordered, Resendiz is currently locked into negotiations with Edgar Berlanga.<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rican is currently ranked No.12 by the WBA and has lost two of his last three fights.<\/p>\n

READ MORE ON BOXING Slap yourself’ – Terence Crawford tears into WBC in expletive rant after world title stripped<\/p>\n

In September 2024, he dropped a lopsided unanimous decision to Canelo Alvarez<\/a> before rebounding with a one-round blowout of the unheralded Jonathan Gonzalez-Ortiz.<\/p>\n

Berlanga was then dispatched in five rounds by Hamzah Sheeraz<\/a> last July in a performance hardly worthy of a world title shot.<\/p>\n

What happened to Terence Crawford’s other super middleweight titles?<\/p>\n

Resendiz becomes the latest boxer to benefit from Crawford’s undisputed titles fragmenting.<\/p>\n

The IBF has ordered heavy-handed Cuban Osleys Iglesias and Canelo to duke it out for their version of the super middleweight world title.<\/p>\n

The WBC has called for a fight between Christian Mbilli and Sheeraz for the green and gold strap.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sheeraz has also been offered a vacant world title shot against Diego Pacheco by the WBO.<\/p>\n

\"'Bud'<\/a><\/p>\n

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Crawford has now been stripped of all four of his super middleweight world titlesCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Whilst the IBF, WBO and WBA’s decision to strip Crawford of their respective world titles came after he hung up his gloves on December<\/a> 16, ‘Bud’ lost his recognition as WBC champion two weeks prior for not coughing up sanctioning fees for his lucrative clash with Canelo.<\/a><\/p>\n

WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman declared that Crawford failed to hand over $300,000 – 0.6 per cent of his $50million purse.<\/p>\n

Sulaiman branded Crawford’s actions “a slap in the face” of the WBC.<\/p>\n

“The WBC was instrumental in making Crawford-Canelo,” said Sulaiman.<\/p>\n

“For making an event with multi-million dollars at stake.<\/p>\n

“For both fighters’ life-changing money for their families and their next generations.<\/p>\n

\"Crawford<\/a><\/p>\n

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Crawford announced his retirement in DecemberCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

“We did many things, that ring that made news all over the world, made statues… just to receive a slap in the face, it is sad.<\/p>\n

“But the WBC and boxing is about everyone. Boxing is about any organisation, any promoter, any fighter.<\/p>\n

“As long as we honour and we respect, we will go on.<\/p>\n

Read More on talkSPORT<\/p>\n

“And then the next champion will be as good or better than the champion that had it.<\/p>\n

“The championship is now vacant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Armando Resendiz has been crowned WBA super middleweight champion in the wake of Terence Crawford’s retirement. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,135045,6102,135044,101,9553,56,54,55,84821,42403],"class_list":["post-349688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-champions","tag-boxing-news","tag-jose-armando-resendiz","tag-sports","tag-terence-crawford","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wba","tag-world-champions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349688","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=349688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}