{"id":4599,"date":"2025-12-17T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:15:14","slug":"jazza-dickens-liverpool-fighters-title-defence-called-off-after-injury-to-hayato-tsutsumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"Jazza Dickens: Liverpool fighter’s title defence called off after injury to Hayato Tsutsumi"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jazza Dickens’ first defence of his WBA super-featherweight world title has been called off because of a facial injury to opponent Hayato Tsutsumi. <\/b><\/p>\n

The fight was scheduled to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 27 December.<\/p>\n

But Japanese prospect Tsutsumi, who is unbeaten in eight bouts, sustained an orbital floor fracture – an injury to the bone beneath the eye socket – during training, according to the Ring magazine, external<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Liverpool’s Dickens was recently upgraded to super-featherweight world champion<\/a> after American Lamont Roach Jr was stripped of the title.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old has won 36 of his 41 fights but last fought in July when he stopped Russia’s Albert Batyrgaziev in round four to win the WBA interim belt.<\/p>\n

“This morning, as soon as I opened my eyes and when I looked at my messages, I got a body shot,” Dickens said in a video on his YouTube channel. <\/p>\n

“That’s what if feels like when you get bad news. Yeah, fight’s off.<\/p>\n

“Experience teaches you along the way that these things happen. But I would say the worst time this has happened is obviously now because for whatever is on the line – world title fight, first defence.”<\/p>\n

Dickens is Britain’s fourth reigning male champion, along with Nick Ball, Lewis Crocker and Fabio Wardley.<\/p>\n

He has competed across three weight classes and was British champion at super-bantamweight and European champion at featherweight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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