{"id":391536,"date":"2026-01-06T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391536\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:37:14","slug":"floyd-schofield-wants-world-title-clash-with-abdullah-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391536\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Schofield wants world title clash with Abdullah Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t the most active year for Floyd Schofield<\/a>, but the 23-year-old made the most of his lone appearance in 2025.
It took Schofield just over a minute to stop Tevin Farmer<\/a> in the first round of their clash last June. Although he hasn\u2019t been in the ring since, Schofield believes that he\u2019s ready to go into a big-time fight next. <\/p>\n

The lightweight division has a ton of notable names, and while Schofield wouldn\u2019t mind lacing them up with just about anyone, his preference is to get his hands on a young fighter who\u2019s also coming off the best win of his career. <\/p>\n

\u201cI want that Abdullah Mason fight,\u201d Schofield told MillCity Boxing. \u201cI feel like in 2026, two young guys get it out the way so early in their career. Who don\u2019t wanna see that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mason (20-0, 17 KOs), 21, picked up a world title in his first attempt on November 22 at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, thanks to his victory over Sam Noakes<\/a>. It was a back-and-forth Fight of the Year contender, but getting that decision made the Ohioan the youngest world champion in boxing at the moment. Schofield (19-0, 13 KOs) hasn\u2019t reached that position yet.<\/p>\n

Seeing a world title fight between two men who have yet to reach their physical primes would be an unusual but welcome change of pace. <\/p>\n

Marinating it doesn’t interest Schofield. Fighting Mason is one of his top priorities and he believes he has enough to win the WBO lightweight title, likely by stoppage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want him now,\u201d Schofield continued. \u201cI\u2019m stopping him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn’t the most active year for Floyd Schofield, but the 23-year-old made the most of his lone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391537,"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-391536","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\/391536","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=391536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}