Dickens v Cacace: Jazza Dickens And Cacace Finely Poised For Dublin World Title Bout
jazza dickens will put his WBA super-featherweight crown on the line at Dublin’s 3Arena on Saturday in a showdown against Anthony Cacace after both men scaled the weights at Friday’s official weigh-in.
Jazza Dickens Set To Defend WBA Title In Dublin
The champion arrives in Dublin as a 34-year-old who has enjoyed a late-career resurgence after moving up to super-featherweight and linking up with Dubai-based coach Albert Aryrapetyan. At the Friday weigh-in Dickens scaled 9st 3. 14lb (58. 57kg) while his challenger registered 9st 3. 5lb (58. 74kg), leaving both men within the required limit for the world title clash.
Dickens’ revival included a 10-round decision over Zelfa Barrett in February 2025 and a stoppage of Olympic gold medallist Albert Batyrgaziev five months later to claim the interim WBA title, moving his record to 36 wins with five defeats. His elevation to full world champion followed when Lamont Roach was stripped of the belt in December. The champion arrives on the back of a four-fight winning run since the switch in weight and looks to capitalise on that momentum in Dublin.
Cacace’s Form And The Southpaw Question
At 37, Anthony Cacace brings experience and a 24-1 record into the contest, having exploded into title contention when he took the IBF belt from Joe Cordina in 2024. Cacace noted the stylistic challenge posed by facing a southpaw, saying: “Yeah, he’s a southpaw and it’s been over 10 years since I’ve fought a southpaw but I’m not really thinking like that. I’m just thinking about what I can do. “
Cacace also watched Dickens’ recent bouts and warned of his own power, saying he will need to see “how Jazza can deal with my power and accuracy. ” That blend of confidence and caution frames the contest: can jazza dickens impose his tempo and technique, or will Cacace’s power and physical advantages decide the night?
Styles, Stakes And What Changed
The pairing is strikingly similar in narrative: two veterans who have enjoyed late-career success and who have vowed to give everything in pursuit of world honours. Physically Cacace is seen as holding advantages that could prompt him to force a higher-pace, inside battle, a plan made more intriguing by Dickens’ recent work crouching and landing a stiff right jab, as shown in his fight with Batyrgaziev where he overcame a reach deficit and absorbed looping overhand shots.
The stakes are clear for both men: Dickens seeks to validate a career renaissance and keep the WBA crown, while Cacace aims to add another world title to his record. With both fighters having ticked the weight boxes and exchanged public assessments of one another’s strengths, the contest at Dublin’s 3Arena is set as a finely poised encounter where styles, experience and late-career form should decide the outcome.
What changed most recently was Dickens’ elevation to full champion status and the agreement at the weigh-in that confirms this meeting will determine the WBA super-featherweight title, leaving fans and the fighters to await the bell on Saturday.
