{"id":233291,"date":"2025-07-03T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233291\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:05:10","slug":"jazza-dickens-batters-albert-batyrgaziev-for-interim-wba-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233291\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazza Dickens batters Albert Batyrgaziev for interim WBA belt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite turning 34 in April, Jazza Dickens is officially having the greatest year of his career. Five months after upsetting Zelfa Barrett<\/a>, Dickens knocked out Olympic gold medalist Albert Batyrgaziev in Istanbul (not Constantinople) today to claim the interim WBA super featherweight title.<\/p>\n

The IBA posted the full video on their official YouTube page<\/a> for those interested.<\/p>\n

Batyrgaziev (12-1, 8 KO) had long struggled with chin issues, most notably suffering two knockdowns against Neri Ariel Cruz Romero in March, but his craft and nasty body attack consistently bailed him out. That wasn\u2019t the case here, as Dickens (36-5, 15 KO) stayed aggressive and held his own in the pocket until a 1-2 took out Batyrgaziev\u2019s legs and allowed Dickens to hammer him to the mat. Batyrgaziev beat the count, but Dickens continued to tear up his compromised foe until a chopping left floored him again and forced his corner to throw in the towel.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a hell of a resurgence for Dickens, who\u2019d seemed destined for the scrap heap after a 2023 knockout loss to Hector Andres Sosa. He\u2019s now got what looks like a guaranteed crack at Lamont Roach Jr, but it\u2019s unclear how things will play out after Roach\u2019s upcoming rematch with Gervonta Davis.<\/p>\n

As for Batyrgaziev, this seems like the end of the road at just 27 years old. He\u2019s just got too many defensive liabilities and lacks both the power and durability needed to compensate. When you\u2019re getting scrambled by a light puncher like Jono Carroll and smashed by Dickens, whose most notable prior finish came over Andoni Gago, you might want to call it quits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite turning 34 in April, Jazza Dickens is officially having the greatest year of his career. Five months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[91460,10520,91459,91461,91463,1935,4496,10184,9270,3576,163,10522,91462,91458,10521,79,16,15,21854],"class_list":{"0":"post-233291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-albert","9":"tag-bad","10":"tag-batters","11":"tag-batyrgaziev","12":"tag-belt","13":"tag-boxing","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-results","16":"tag-dickens","17":"tag-for","18":"tag-front-page","19":"tag-hook","20":"tag-interim","21":"tag-jazza","22":"tag-left","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114786384221187006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233291","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=233291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}