{"id":81731,"date":"2025-08-21T04:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81731\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:06:07","slug":"chris-billam-smith-vs-roman-fress-ordered-for-interim-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81731\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Billam-Smith vs Roman Fress ordered for interim title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The two have 20 days to negotiate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Billam-Smith (21-2, 13 KO) took the belt from Lawrence Okolie in a 2023 upset and successfully defended against Mateusz Masternak and Richard Riakporhe before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2024\/11\/16\/24298170\/zurdo-ramirez-unifies-with-win-over-chris-billam-smith-more-results-boxing-news-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">running afoul of Ramirez last November<\/a>. He kept his stock high despite the loss with a decision over the always-dangerous Brandon Glanton in April, putting himself right back in the title picture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fress (23-1, 13 KO) has spent his six-year pro career mulching weak competition on the European scene, almost exclusively in his native Germany. His biggest fight to date saw him drop a 2022 split decision to Armend Xhoxhaj, who went on to get sparked by Billam-Smith seven months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not a good fight by any stretch of the imagination, but the WBO\u2019s cruiserweight rankings are <a href=\"https:\/\/box.live\/boxing-rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pretty dire at the moment<\/a>; hell, they\u2019ve still got Sergey Kovalev at no. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two have 20 days to negotiate. Billam-Smith (21-2, 13 KO) took the belt from Lawrence Okolie in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-81731","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\/81731","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=81731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}