{"id":126849,"date":"2025-03-19T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=126849"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:42:11","slug":"ryan-the-bruiser-rozicki-challenges-wbc-cruiserweight-world-champion-badou-jack-on-may-3-in-saudi-arabia-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=126849","title":{"rendered":"Ryan \u201cThe Bruiser\u201d Rozicki Challenges WBC Cruiserweight World Champion  Badou Jack on May 3 in Saudi Arabia &#8211; Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=126849\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=126849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126850 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mail-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mail-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mail-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mail-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mail.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian cruiserweight challenger Ryan \u201cThe Bruiser\u201d Rozicki (20-1-1, 19 KOs) will finally get his World Boxing Council (WBC) Cruiserweight World title shot against defending champion Badou \u201cThe Ripper\u201d Jack (20-1-1, 19 KOs) on May 3rd on the Riyadh Season\u2019s high-profile card headlined by the Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs) versus William Scull (23-0, 9 KOs) for the Unified Super Middleweight World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>All the action will be stream live on DAZN PPV.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Proudly channeling his boxing idol, Hall of Famer Jack Dempsey, Rozicki is the WBC No. 1 mandatory challenger for the third time, but he will now get his long-awaited shot. His promoter, Three Lions Promotions, won the purse bid and had originally secured a date and venue, April 26 at Centre 200 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Negotiations led to Jack vs. Rozicki being added to the May 3rd show in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to thank his excellency Turki Al-Sheikh, David Ghansa from 258 Management, and WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman for making this fight possible. Ryan is fighting on the biggest stage possible, and he is more than ready. Come May 3 there will be a new WBC World Cruiserweight Champion,\u201d Rozicki\u2019s promoter Daniel Otter (Three Lions Promotions) proclaimed. \u201cThe world is going to witness the hardest puncher in boxing today. Rozicki is going to walk right through Jack and get him out of there early, mark my words!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rozicki, 30, has been the WBC\u2019s mandatory challenger since 2023, first for then-WBC Cruiserweight World Champion Noel Mikaelyan (27-2, 12 KOs), who failed to make his ordered title defense with Rozicki. The WBC named Mikaelyan its \u201cChampion In Recess,\u201d elevating Jack to its World Cruiserweight Champion from his position as the WBC \u201cChampion In Recess.\u201d Three-division world champion Jack, 41, hasn\u2019t fought since he captured the crown on February 26, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Rozicki\u2019s aggressive, powerful style of fighting (\u201cThe Bruiser\u201d) has been modeled after Dempsey and the two, despite Ryan being born nearly 100 years to the day after Dempsey, even look similar. Known as a modern-day Jack Dempsey, Rozicki is dedicated to honoring Dempsey\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy style of fighting hasn\u2019t been seen in Saudi Arabia,\u201d Rozicki said. I\u2019m going to knock him (Jack) out and end his boxing career. It\u2019s that simple. These other fighters have been ducking and dodging me for long enough; I\u2019m putting the whole division on blast, after I\u2019m finished with Jack, I want Jai (Opetaia \u2013 IBF, Ring Magazine, and lineal champion) and (Gilberto \u2018Zurdo\u2019 \u2013 WBA and WBO champion) next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The May 3rd card is absolutely loaded, arguably \u201cThe Event of the Year\u201d from top to bottom. In addition to Canelo vs. Scully and Jack vs. Rozicki, other fights include middleweight Jaime Munguia (44-2, 35 KOs) vs. Bruno Surace (26-0-2, 5 KOs) in a rematch of their fight which was won by the latter in a major upset, as well as heavyweight hopeful Martin Bakole (21-2, 16 KOs) vs. Efe Ajagba (20-1, 16 KOs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian cruiserweight challenger Ryan \u201cThe Bruiser\u201d Rozicki (20-1-1, 19 KOs) will finally get his World Boxing Council (WBC) Cruiserweight World title shot against defending champion Badou \u201cThe Ripper\u201d Jack (20-1-1, 19 KOs) on May 3rd on the Riyadh Season\u2019s high-profile card headlined by the Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs) versus William Scull (23-0, 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32621],"class_list":["post-126849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ryan-the-bruiser-rozicki-challenges-wbc-cruiserweight-world-champion-badou-jack-on-may-3-in-saudi-arabia-breaking-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126849"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}