{"id":785472,"date":"2026-07-07T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785472\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:14:08","slug":"mason-open-to-lightweight-unification-im-definitely-open-to-making-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785472\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason open to lightweight unification: &#8216;I&#8217;m definitely open to making it happen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdullah Mason says he is ready to fight for all the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> belts. The unbeaten American told Ring Magazine he wants to prove himself against the division&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m very interested. In boxing, you&#8217;ve got to prove that you&#8217;re the best in the sport, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m open to doing. I&#8217;m open to proving that, and whoever I step in the ring with, I&#8217;m definitely open to making it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 Abdullah Mason, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/6MbaFjcMkQ4RIlpIrHXLOH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ring Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What Abdullah Mason said<\/p>\n<p>Mason competes at <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a>, where several world titles remain split across multiple sanctioning bodies. A unification bout would settle the pecking order and establish a clear champion. Mason has made his willingness to face any available titleholder public.<\/p>\n<p>What it moves<\/p>\n<p>The statement puts pressure on rival <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> champions to accept a challenge. Mason&#8217;s camp will now wait to see whether the other belt-holders respond or whether promotional hurdles block a unification from taking shape.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/6MbaFjcMkQ4RIlpIrHXLOH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ringmagazine.com<\/a>. Full <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/abdullah-mason\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abdullah Mason<\/a> fight history and recent news at boxingnews.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abdullah Mason says he is ready to fight for all the lightweight belts. The unbeaten American told Ring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-785472","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\/785472","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=785472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}