{"id":321028,"date":"2023-08-03T07:07:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T07:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=321028"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:58:35","slug":"tszyu-set-for-promotion-in-stunning-power-ranks-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=321028","title":{"rendered":"Tszyu set for promotion in stunning power-ranks twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\ufeffim Tszyu<\/a> is poised to become the WBO super-welterweight world champion on September 30, taking hold of the mantle from Jermell Charlo<\/a> when the American sets foot in the ring to meet Mexico's Canelo Alvarez.<\/p>\n

The WBO announced on Thursday that Charlo would be stripped of the title when he takes on Alvarez in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

It means Tszyu, being the interim WBO champion, will be promoted to full champion status.<\/p>\n

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It also means the Australian's next fight shapes as a world-title defence, likely against interim WBC champion Brian Mendoza of America.<\/p>\n

Tszyu's last three bouts have seen him defeat American Terrell Gausha<\/a> on his US debut, American Tony Harrison<\/a> in Sydney and Mexican Carlos Ocampo<\/a> on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

He overcame Ocampo via KO on June 18 in his most recent clash.<\/p>\n

It was announced on Thursday that his younger brother Nikita Tszyu would square off with Jack Brubaker<\/a> in a super-welterweight battle at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion on August 23.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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T\ufeffim Tszyu is poised to become the WBO super-welterweight world champion on September 30, taking hold of the mantle from Jermell Charlo when the American […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321030,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321028\/revisions\/321030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}