{"id":658749,"date":"2026-06-26T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658749\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:00:08","slug":"jermall-charlo-names-the-world-champion-hes-targeting-ahead-of-comeback-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658749\/","title":{"rendered":"Jermall Charlo names the world champion he&#8217;s targeting ahead of comeback fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-division world champion <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/jermall-charlo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jermall Charlo<\/a> is set to return to action in Australia next month. Should he be victorious, there is one reigning champion that the Texan is hoping to take on.<\/p>\n<p>Charlo claimed world honours at both super-welterweight and middleweight but after almost three years without defending his WBC 160lb crown, the undefeated Charlo was stripped of his belt in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, \u2018Hit Man\u2019 has fought only once, knocking out Thomas \u2018Cornflake\u2019 LaManna on the Caleb Plant vs. Armabdo Resendiz card last May, where victory for him and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45414294\/armando-resendiz-spoils-caleb-plant-plans-split-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Plant was supposed to tee up a grudge match until Resendiz pulled off the upset in the main event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Resendiz was then elevated to WBA super-middleweight world champion, but he lost the belt in an attempted first defence against Jaime Munguia last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dRUsTY3yoK4?si=OSnGFHs75cSkm_Of\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FightHype<\/a>, 36-year-old Charlo confirmed that he is still pursuing that strap, targeting a shot at Munguia\u2019s title in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s get done with this fight in July and then I will try to fight before the end of the year to give you [fans] another fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I want to go and fight Munguia, Munguia sounds like a good fight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlo first makes his comeback on the Errol Spence vs. Tim Tszyu card in Sydney on Saturday, July 26, facing off with Australian super-welterweight champion Koen Mazoudier in the co-main event.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow American two-division ruler Stephen Fulton is also scheduled to appear on that <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/tworld-champions-on-spence-tszyu-card\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Australia vs. USA\u2019 card<\/a>, tasked with former super-featherweight world title challenger Liam Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-division world champion Jermall Charlo is set to return to action in Australia next month. Should he be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658749","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\/658749","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=658749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}