{"id":524661,"date":"2026-04-11T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524661\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:38:10","slug":"osleys-iglesias-stops-pavel-silyagin-to-win-ibf-super-middleweight-title-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524661\/","title":{"rendered":"Osleys Iglesias stops Pavel Silyagin to win IBF super middleweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Osleys Iglesias stopped Pavel Silyagin in the eighth round to secure the vacant IBF super-middleweight title in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cuban, who is unbeaten in 15 professional bouts, claimed the belt previously held by undisputed champion Terence Crawford before his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cj01v4z6107o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retirement in December.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iglesias, 29, landed an uppercut on Silyagin in the first round, causing the Russian&#8217;s right eye to swell up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight was stopped when Iglesias inflicted further damage in the eighth round, leading to the 32-year-old retreating to his corner with damage to both eyes and a bloody nose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three of Crawford&#8217;s belts now have new holders, with Christian Mbilli in possession of the WBC title and Armando Resendiz holding the WBA version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Hamzah Sheeraz and Alem Begic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cp8d60zjr12o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will fight for the WBO title<\/a> on 23 May, on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s defence of the WBC heavyweight title against Rico Verhoeven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osleys Iglesias stopped Pavel Silyagin in the eighth round to secure the vacant IBF super-middleweight title in Montreal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-524661","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\/524661","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=524661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}