{"id":694702,"date":"2026-01-14T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:18:08","slug":"callum-smith-david-morrell-wbo-interim-clash-stuck-in-a-holding-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694702\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Smith-David Morrell WBO interim clash stuck in a holding pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">Liverpool\u2019s Smith, 31-2 (22 KOs) holds the secondary version of the WBO 175lbs belt, while Morrell \u2013 a U.S.-based Cuban boxer \u2013 remains his mandatory challenger. The bout was ordered last July, shortly after Morrell rebounded from a loss to David Benavidez with a narrow victory over Imam Khataev via 10-round, split decision in their July 12 thriller in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s Smith, 31-2 (22 KOs) holds the secondary version of the WBO 175lbs belt, while Morrell \u2013 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,22403,20755,209629,209628,79,16,15,9842],"class_list":{"0":"post-694702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-callum-smith","10":"tag-david-morrell","11":"tag-interim-titles","12":"tag-smith-morrell","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wbo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115891765444396910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694702","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=694702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}