{"id":113205,"date":"2026-03-12T14:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/torrez-jr-vs-sanchez-cancelled-ibf-eliminator-in-doubt-due-to-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:21:49","slug":"torrez-jr-vs-sanchez-cancelled-ibf-eliminator-in-doubt-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/torrez-jr-vs-sanchez-cancelled-ibf-eliminator-in-doubt-due-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrez Jr. vs. S\u00e1nchez Cancelled: IBF Eliminator in Doubt Due to Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Richard Torrez Jr. vs. Frank Sanchez: IBF Title Elimination Fight Cancelled<\/h2>\n\nThe expected IBF heavyweight title eliminator fight between the undefeated Richard Torrez Jr. and Frank S\u00e1nchez, scheduled for March 28, has been canceled. Sources close to the situation revealed that S\u00e1nchez suffered an injury that prevents his participation.\n\nTorrez Jr. (14-0, 12 KOs) was scheduled to face S\u00e1nchez (27-1, 18 KOs, 1 No Contest) on the pay-per-view event that will headline Sebastian Fundora&#8217;s WBC junior middleweight title defense against Keith Thurman at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. However, S\u00e1nchez, of Cuban nationality, was forced to withdraw from the fight due to a knee injury.\n\nThe inflammation in S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s right knee, which had already been operated on, will force the fight to be rescheduled for a later date.\n\nBoth Torrez Jr. and S\u00e1nchez are among the top ten heavyweights in the rankings. The winner of this matchup would become the mandatory challenger for Oleksandr Usyk, who currently holds the IBF, WBC, and WBA titles.\n\nUsyk will put the WBC title on the line against kickboxer Rico Verhoeven on May 23 at the Giza Pyramids, Egypt. Recently, Usyk stated that he has three fights left before retiring, and the winner of the fight between Torrez and S\u00e1nchez was not on his list of opponents.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>First, Rico [Verhoeven]. Second, whoever wins between [WBO champion Fabio] Wardley or [Daniel] Dubois, and the third fight, my friend, the greedy Tyson Fury.<\/p><cite>Oleksandr Usyk<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nTorrez Jr. is coming off a stoppage victory against Tomas Salek last November, while S\u00e1nchez defeated Ram\u00f3n Olivas Echeverr\u00eda by technical knockout in the third round in February.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Torrez Jr. vs. Frank Sanchez: IBF Title Elimination Fight Cancelled The expected IBF heavyweight title eliminator fight between the undefeated Richard Torrez Jr. and Frank S\u00e1nchez, scheduled for March 28, has been canceled. Sources close to the situation revealed that S\u00e1nchez suffered an injury that prevents his participation. Torrez Jr. (14-0, 12 KOs) was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,12243,290,12244],"class_list":{"0":"post-113205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boxing","7":"tag-boxing","8":"tag-frank-sanchez","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-richard-torrez-jr"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}