{"id":21393,"date":"2025-04-15T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21393\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:32:08","slug":"andy-cruz-vs-hironori-mishiro-eliminator-planned-for-june-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21393\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Cruz vs Hironori Mishiro eliminator planned for June 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Eddie Hearn revealed over the past weekend<\/a> that an IBF lightweight eliminator between two-time Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz and no. 5 Hironori Mishiro is \u201cin play\u2019 for their planned June 14th Richardson Hitchins vs George Kambosos Jr show<\/a>. Carlos Linares adds<\/a> that the two are in \u201cadvanced discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The title situation is a bit of a mess at the moment with thanks to the ambiguity surrounding reigning champion Vasiliy Lomachenko\u2019s career; most expect him to retire after turning down a blockbuster unification with Gervonta \u201cTank\u201d Davis, but he\u2019s yet to commit to a course of action. Zaur Abdullaev will face Raymond Muratalla for the interim belt next month<\/a>, with the winner of this one likely next in line.<\/p>\n

That will almost certainly be Cruz (5-0, 2 KO), who\u2019s yet to fully convert his magnificent amateur pedigree into an overwhelming pro game but remains among the best in the business. While Japan\u2019s Mishiro (17-1-1, 6 KO) is the reigning Japanese champion and has a couple of solid domestic wins, he\u2019s taking a gargantuan step up in class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Eddie Hearn revealed over the past weekend that an IBF lightweight eliminator between two-time Olympic gold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[2954,10520,1935,4496,13784,13787,3576,163,13785,10522,13789,10521,13786,13788,79,16,15,6691],"class_list":{"0":"post-21393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-andy","9":"tag-bad","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-news","12":"tag-cruz","13":"tag-eliminator","14":"tag-for","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-hironori","17":"tag-hook","18":"tag-june","19":"tag-left","20":"tag-mishiro","21":"tag-planned","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-vs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114340819565608010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}