{"id":723228,"date":"2026-06-08T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:48:14","slug":"adrian-roach-boxing-bout-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723228\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Roach Boxing Bout Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professional boxer Adrian Roach had his bout cancelled after American opponent Jerrell Mayweather withdrew from their welterweight contest on Saturday [June 6].<\/p>\n<p>Roach [2-0] was scheduled to face Mayweather [5-0] on the undercard of compatriot Andre Lambe\u2019s welterweight clash with American Pryce Sparrow at the Galveston Island Convention Centre in Galveston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy opponent weighed in and everything \u2013 he came in overweight \u2013 but ended up pulling out,\u201d Roach told Bernews.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time Roach has been affected by a late withdrawal. <\/p>\n<p>In March, a scheduled bout in Greensboro, North Carolina, was cancelled at the last minute after his opponent pulled out shortly before the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bernews.com\/2026\/06\/june8-adrian-roach-boxing-bout-cancelled\/\" data-via=\"bernewsdotcom\" data-text=\"Adrian Roach Boxing Bout Cancelled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a class=\"mr_social_share_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/bernews.com\/2026\/06\/june8-adrian-roach-boxing-bout-cancelled\/whatsapp:\/\/send?text=Adrian+Roach+Boxing+Bout+Cancelled%20https%3A%2F%2Fbernews.com%2F2026%2F06%2Fjune8-adrian-roach-boxing-bout-cancelled%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/whatsapp.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Share on WhatsApp\" title=\"Share on WhatsApp\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bernews.com\/2026\/06\/june8-adrian-roach-boxing-bout-cancelled\/\" data-text=\"Adrian Roach Boxing Bout Cancelled\" data-desc=\"Professional boxer Adrian Roach had his bout cancelled after American opponent Jerrell Mayweather withdrew from their welterweight contest on Saturday . Roach was scheduled to face Mayweather on the undercard of compatriot Andre Lambe&#039;s welterweight clash with American Pryce Sparrow at the Galveston\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"icon_small\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_icon_small.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read More About<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bernews.com\/tag\/boxing\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Boxing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"cats\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/bernews.com\/category\/all\/\" title=\"View all posts in All\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bernews.com\/category\/sports\/\" title=\"View all posts in Sports\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professional boxer Adrian Roach had his bout cancelled after American opponent Jerrell Mayweather withdrew from their welterweight contest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-723228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723228","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=723228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}