{"id":381119,"date":"2026-01-20T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381119\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:47:11","slug":"ricardo-sandoval-vs-anthony-olascuaga-reportedly-eyed-for-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381119\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Sandoval vs Anthony Olascuaga reportedly eyed for March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">ESPN\u2019s Salvador Rodriguez <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChavaESPN\/status\/2013416968146067961\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> \u201chigh interest\u201d in a three-belt flyweight unification between Ricardo Sandoval and Anthony Olascuaga, which could land in Japan this coming March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sandoval (27-2, 18 KO) was on the verge of a title shot when he dropped a majority decision to David Jimenez in 2022, but bounced back with six straight victories, including a stoppage of faded former titlist Angel Acosta. This earned him a crack at unified WBA\/WBC titlist Kenshiro Teraji, and despite fighting in hostile territory as a notable underdog, Sandoval <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2025\/7\/30\/24477202\/ricardo-sandoval-shocks-kenshiro-teraji-upset-win-for-wbc-and-wba-titles-boxing-news-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">battled his way to a razor-thin split decision to claim champion status at 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Olascuaga (11-1, 8 KO) has been on the warpath since falling to Teraji in a last-minute showdown three years back, racking up five knockouts in six wins. He\u2019s been among the more active titlists in boxing since blowing out Riku Kano for the vacant WBO belt, going 3-0 in 2025 with a noteworthy unanimous decision over former unified light flyweight champion Hiroto Kyoguchi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This would be a terrific scrap if it got over the finish line, so I\u2019m keeping my fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Salvador Rodriguez reports \u201chigh interest\u201d in a three-belt flyweight unification between Ricardo Sandoval and Anthony Olascuaga, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-381119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381119","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=381119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}