{"id":645059,"date":"2026-06-18T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645059\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:50:10","slug":"wbo-to-vote-on-replacing-sidelined-minimumweight-contender-joey-canoy-with-luis-castillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645059\/","title":{"rendered":"WBO to vote on replacing sidelined minimumweight contender Joey Canoy with Luis Castillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The WBO announced Tuesday it will convene a special meeting Wednesday to rule on a request to replace sidelined minimumweight title challenger Joey Canoy with Luis \u201cFlechita\u201d Castillo.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Canoy 25-5-2 (15 KOs), from the Philippines, is out of Saturday\u2019s title fight in Oceanside, California, due to \u201cthe unfortunate inability \u2026 to secure the necessary work visa to compete,\u201d WBO President Gustavo Olivieri posted on \u201cX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Unified champion Oscar Collazo 14-0 (11 KOs) was due to defend his belt against Canoy, who\u2019s the WBO No. 5-ranked 105lbs contender. In order to fight for the WBO belt, a contender must be ranked within the sanctioning body\u2019s top 15.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So Collazo co-promoter Miguel Cotto has submitted a written request to the WBO\u2019s Ratings and Championship Committee to provide sanction approval and allow Mexico\u2019s Sampson Lewkowicz-promoted Castillo 22-1-1 (14 KOs) to fight for the title at Frontwave Arena.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Golden Boy Promotions card, to be streamed by DAZN, is loaded with prospects from Oscar De La Hoya\u2019s company.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WBO announced Tuesday it will convene a special meeting Wednesday to rule on a request to replace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,217346,217347,217348,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-joey-canoy","tag-luis-castillo","tag-oscar-collazo","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645059","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=645059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}