{"id":11900,"date":"2025-03-15T05:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fabio-wardley-vacates-british-heavyweight-belt-ahead-of-wba-regular-title-shot\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T05:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:34:57","slug":"fabio-wardley-vacates-british-heavyweight-belt-ahead-of-wba-regular-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fabio-wardley-vacates-british-heavyweight-belt-ahead-of-wba-regular-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley vacates British heavyweight belt ahead of WBA regular title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following formal notice that the 30-year-old had relinquished the title, he posted on X: &#8220;Thank you for the history.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WBA said the mandatory defence period for Pulev to meet Wardley will end on 4 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winner must then defend against American Michael Hunter, who has won 24 of his professional bouts, before 25 October of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wardley came into boxing without an amateur background, having previously been a recruitment consultant in the City of London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made his professional debut in April 2017, on the same night as fellow Briton and current IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois, albeit at different UK venues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c07zjkj2g05o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following formal notice that the 30-year-old had relinquished the title, he posted on X: &#8220;Thank you for the history.&#8221; The WBA said the mandatory defence period for Pulev to meet Wardley will end on 4 April. The winner must then defend against American Michael Hunter, who has won 24 of his professional bouts, before 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11902,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900\/revisions\/11902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}