{"id":371798,"date":"2024-03-01T00:39:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T01:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=371798"},"modified":"2024-03-01T04:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T04:02:46","slug":"shock-twist-as-tszyus-world-title-put-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=371798","title":{"rendered":"Shock twist as Tszyu's world title put in jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\ufeffim Tszyu<\/a> could be stripped of his WBO world title, should the Australian boxer lose his non-title bout with Keith Thurman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old will square off with the American later this month in Las Vegas, but his junior middleweight crown will not be up for grabs for Thurman.<\/p>\n

However in a shock twist, the organisation has reportedly threatened Tszyu, despite the bout not being sanctioned for the belt.<\/p>\n

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Tszyu (24-0) was awarded the WBO title last year after former champ Jermell Charlo<\/a> was stripped, before the Aussie went on to defeat Brian Castano and retain it in October.<\/p>\n

\"Keith<\/p>\n

Main Event presenter and boxing insider Ben Damon tweeted\ufeff the news on Friday.<\/p>\n

"The WBO has raised the stakes," Damon said.<\/p>\n

"With the decision that Tszyu will be stripped of his world title if he loses the 155 (pound) non-title fight with Thurman."<\/p>\n

The WBO is yet to confirm that claim.\ufeff<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/ben_damon\/status\/1763370903126286508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

Thurman (30-1-1) has fought just once in the past four years, ruling him out of title contention, but poses one of the biggest threats to Tszyu's unbeaten career record.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, WBO president Paco Valcarcel revealed plans for Tszyu to defend against Terence Crawford\ufeff – but the new stakes for his March 31 fight could place those plans in danger.<\/p>\n

Tszyu and No Limit are yet to address the new stipulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T\ufeffim Tszyu could be stripped of his WBO world title, should the Australian boxer lose his non-title bout with Keith Thurman. The 29-year-old will square […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364464,"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\/371798"}],"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=371798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371800,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371798\/revisions\/371800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/364464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}