{"id":43890,"date":"2025-08-04T05:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43890\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:35:09","slug":"josh-padley-reece-bellotti-trio-of-unbeaten-prospects-added-to-oct-11-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43890\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Padley-Reece Bellotti, trio of unbeaten prospects added to Oct. 11 undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former lightweight world title challenger Josh Padley<\/a> will make his junior lightweight debut against recently-defeated former British and Commonwealth divisional champion Reece Bellotti<\/a>.
That is the eye-catching headline from Matchroom’s announcement this afternoon, unveiling more undercard information to fill out the Dave Allen-Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a> undercard on October 11.
Concerns have been raised about the timing of Bellotti’s return, which will come just two-and-a-half months removed from a gruelling 12-round main event matchup against an in-form Ryan Garner<\/a> on July 26.
Garner (18-0, 9 KOs) finished with a flourish and scored a stoppage over the Watford man, 34, to inflict his sixth career loss – and first since former WBA featherweight champion Raymond Ford<\/a> needed three rounds to do the same, four years ago this month. <\/p>\n

Afterwards, Bellotti joked with the media that he’d be paid significantly less and lose opportunities with Eddie Hearn after being the latest to come unstuck against a Frank Warren-backed Queensberry fighter, though many critics were uncomfortable with the news he’d be back so soon. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Padley responded to one in particular on X, saying: “Sometimes, best way to get over something is to get right back to it. I was back in the ring 8 weeks after taking my beating from Shakur, Reece got 10. He’ll be ready to go, I’m sure.” <\/p>\n

Padley was thrust into the Saudi spotlight on short-notice and exceeded expectations during a courageous display against reigning WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson (24-0, 11 KOs) on February 22, earning himself a Matchroom contract despite a ninth-round stoppage defeat<\/a>.
The Yorkshireman (16-1, 5 KOs) was given a hero’s reception on his in-ring return two months later, scoring a fifth-round stoppage win over Marko Cvetanovic on the Dalton Smith-Mathieu Germain undercard<\/a> before admitting he was open to moving down in weight – provided his team deemed he could do so healthily. Now, he gets an opportune chance. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Manchester light-heavyweight Conner Tudsbury (2-0, 1 KO) returns in his third six-round contest. After a pair of eight-round decision wins in Nottingham and his native Birmingham, junior lightweight Ibraheem Sulaimaan (8-0, 4 KOs) has another assignment as he gradually steps towards title level while Walsall flyweight Hamza Uddin (5-0, 2 KOs) is also back on the schedule. <\/p>\n

Unbeaten talent Junaid Bostan’s wish for a home game was granted, as he’ll rematch Bilal Fawaz for the vacant English junior middleweight title after their contentious 10-round split draw on January 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former lightweight world title challenger Josh Padley will make his junior lightweight debut against recently-defeated former British and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43891,"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":["post-43890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890","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=43890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}