Britain’s Hamzah Sheeraz claimed his first world title with a second-round stoppage win against Alem Begic to claim the vacant WBO super-middleweight crown in Egypt.<\/p>\n
The Londoner, 26, imposed himself from the opening bell against the overmatched German, breaking him down with sharp straight jabs and uppercuts. <\/p>\n
Begic was out of his depth and had no answer to Sheeraz’s accuracy, with a left hook to the body eventually sending him down. <\/p>\n
The 39-year-old failed to beat the count as the referee waved the fight off.<\/p>\n
“It was simple – I saw he was very negative from when I landed the first punch,” Sheeraz said. <\/p>\n
“After that it was about walking him down and getting out of there. That is what we’ve done.”<\/p>\n
Sheeraz takes the WBO belt vacated by the retired Terence Crawford and edges closer to a dream match with Mexican superstar Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in 2027.<\/p>\n
Alvarez – who was ringside – is set to return to boxing with a fight against WBC super-middleweight champion Christian Mbilli on 12 September in Riyadh.<\/p>\n
“There is boxing royalty ringside and I want to follow in their footsteps,” Sheeraz added. <\/p>\n
“I am beating whoever is in front of me. If Canelo wins [against Mbilli], it’s up to him. <\/p>\n
“I believe he is one of the ‘goats’ of boxing, to share the ring with him would be an honour. If I got the opportunity I would get the win for sure.”<\/p>\n
Earlier, Englishman Jack Catterall, 32, moved closer to a full world title shot with a one-sided points win over unbeaten Shakhram Giyasov to claim the WBA ‘regular’ welterweight belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Hamzah Sheeraz claimed his first world title with a second-round stoppage win against Alem Begic to claim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600684","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\/600684","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=600684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}