June 2024 loss<\/a> to Gervonta Davis to face former two-division champion Rances Barthelemy (30-3-1, 15 KOs) on the undercard of Sebastian Fundora’s WBC super welterweight title defense against Keith Thurman on Oct. 25 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\nMartin and Barthelemy will meet in a 10-round super lightweight fight as the main preliminary bout on a three-fight PBC on Prime Video lineup ahead of the Fundora-Thurman PPV card.<\/p>\n
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“I’m excited to be back after people tried to bash me for taking one loss,” said Martin in a statement. “I took it as a lesson learned and I’m back mentally and physically at the top of my game. Rances is gonna have to deal with everything I went through, and he’s gonna feel it on every punch. I’m back and I’m pissed off and dangerous.”<\/p>\n
Martin, 30, started his pro career winning eighteen consecutive fights before being stopped in the 8th round by Davis last year in a WBA lightweight title fight. Standing in his way will be Barthelemy, 39, who hasn’t fought since dropping a unanimous decision to Jose Ramirez in April 2024. Barthelemy is a former junior lightweight and lightweight IBF champion but has been relatively inactive over the past three years with a 1-2 record.<\/p>\n
“October 25 is the night I remind everyone who Rances Barthelemy is,” Barthelemy said. “Frank Martin is a talented fighter, but I’ve been in deep waters before, and experience counts when the lights are brightest. I’m coming with new hunger, sharper focus and the fire of a man chasing one more world title run. Fans tuning in are going to see me determined to leave everything in the ring. I’m not here to survive; I’m here to dominate and make sure my name is back on everyone’s radar.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas HaleOct 8, 2025, 03:09 PM ET CloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-198977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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