{"id":443939,"date":"2026-01-30T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:55:07","slug":"illness-bounces-adames-from-lopez-vs-stevenson-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443939\/","title":{"rendered":"Illness Bounces Adames From \u2018Lopez vs. Stevenson\u2019 Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">WBC Middleweight champion, Carlos Adames, has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled title defense against Austin Williams, which was set to go down this weekend (Sat., Jan. 31, 2026) inside Madison Square Garden in New York City due to illness, per a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ringmagazine\/status\/2017268815462322603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2017268815462322603%7Ctwgr%5E134ea2fe4d2f30650c088e931de6c2a4cb0b7cbb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmamania.com%2Fboxing%2F418660%2Fillness-forces-carlos-adames-to-withdraw-from-lopez-vs-stevenson-event-the-ring-vi\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Adames (24-1) hasn\u2019t competed since his split draw with Hamzah Sheeraz (22-0-1) in Feb. 2025. He was on a six-fight win streak prior to that setback. As for Williams, he is on a three-fight win streak and has a record of 19-1 with 13 knockouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, he will have to wait a bit longer before he can claim WBC gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/411854\/teofimo-lopez-vs-shakur-stevenson-full-fight-card-dazn-start-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ring VI<\/a> main event see Teofimo Lopez defend his WBO and The Ring Light Welterweight titles against Shakur Stevenson, who is undefeated (24-0) and is WBC\u2019s current Lightweight champion of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The DAZN-streamed main card will now feature five fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC Middleweight champion, Carlos Adames, has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled title defense against Austin Williams,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,82],"class_list":["post-443939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443939","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=443939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}