{"id":377003,"date":"2025-12-30T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377003\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:30:09","slug":"gary-antuanne-russell-vs-andy-hiraoka-finds-another-date-for-wba-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377003\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Antuanne Russell vs. Andy Hiraoka finds another date for WBA title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gary Antuanne Russell<\/a>–Andy Hiraoka <\/a>junior welterweight title fight is being planned for the first quarter of 2026, sources tell The Ring.\u00a0
Russell-Hiraoka was set to take place Nov. 14 on the Jake Paul-Gervonta Davis undercard. Russell, like Davis, is with PBC. So when Paul went on to fight Joshua, a Matchroom boxer, Russell-Hiraoka needed a new home.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Russell, the younger brother of former titleholder Gary Russell Jr., won the title in March with a wide points victory over Jose Valenzuela in New York. That followed his first defeat, which came against Alberto Puello in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Russell, 29, is The Ring\u2019s No. 5 boxer at 140 pounds. He fights out of Capitol Heights, Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Hiraoka (24-0, 19 KOs) is The Ring\u2019s No. 10 junior welterweight. In his last fight, he stopped Ismael Barroso in Round 9 on September 2024.<\/p>\n

Mike Coppinger is The Ring\u2019s senior insider. He co-hosts \u201cInside the Ring\u201d on DAZN<\/a> every Monday with Max Kellerman. Follow him on X\/Instagram: @MikeCoppinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gary Antuanne Russell–Andy Hiraoka junior welterweight title fight is being planned for the first quarter of 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":{"0":"post-377003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-ca","21":"tag-canada","22":"tag-disqualification","23":"tag-draw","24":"tag-fight","25":"tag-fighter","26":"tag-fighter-news","27":"tag-knockout","28":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","29":"tag-ring","30":"tag-ring-magazine","31":"tag-split-decision","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-technical-knockout","34":"tag-the-ring","35":"tag-top-fighters","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}