{"id":36332,"date":"2025-12-09T01:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/briton-jazza-dickens-says-he-has-been-upgraded-to-wba-world-champion\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:20:31","slug":"briton-jazza-dickens-says-he-has-been-upgraded-to-wba-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/briton-jazza-dickens-says-he-has-been-upgraded-to-wba-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton Jazza Dickens says he has been upgraded to WBA world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Liverpool&#8217;s Jazza Dickens said he has been upgraded to WBA super-featherweight champion after Lamont Roach was stripped of the title.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Roach was crowned champion in 2023 and defended once the following year but his last two fights, which have both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cqxqggrvwlxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">ended in majority draws<\/a>, have taken place at lightweight and light-welterweight respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dickens, 34, last fought in July, stopping Russia&#8217;s Albert Batyrgaziev in round four to win the WBA interim belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lifetime of hard work is starting to pay off. Huge thanks to all the people who&#8217;ve put me in this position,&#8221; Dickens told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has contacted the WBA for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dickens will become Britain&#8217;s fourth reigning male champion along with Nick Ball, Lewis Crocker and Fabio Wardley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c741d4vdjdlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s Jazza Dickens said he has been upgraded to WBA super-featherweight champion after Lamont Roach was stripped of the title. American Roach was crowned champion in 2023 and defended once the following year but his last two fights, which have both ended in majority draws, have taken place at lightweight and light-welterweight respectively. Dickens, 34, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36334,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36332\/revisions\/36334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}