{"id":650550,"date":"2026-05-06T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650550\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:48:10","slug":"cleveland-native-to-headline-boxing-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650550\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland native to headline boxing fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cleveland-native fighter is coming home to defend his title this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The undefeated World Boxing Organization Lightweight Champion, Abdullah Mason, is headlining at the Wolstein Center as he takes on former world champion Joe Cordina on July 4.<\/p>\n<p>We introduced you to Mason back in 2025 after he became the youngest world champion in men&#8217;s boxing.<\/p>\n<p>How Cleveland&#8217;s Abdullah Mason became the youngest world champ in men&#8217;s boxing<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/sports\/local-sports\/from-a-basement-to-a-title-belt-how-clevelands-abdullah-mason-became-the-youngest-world-champion-in-mens-boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From a basement to a title belt, how CLE&#8217;s Abdullah Mason became the youngest world champion in men&#8217;s boxing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At that time, he was only 19 years old and getting ready to make his pro debut.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he will be in the first boxing match to air on TNT.<\/p>\n<p>Other Cleveland-based fighters, including Tiger Johnson, are expected to be a part of the event as well.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets will go on sale on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>We Follow Through<\/p>\n<p>Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cleveland-native fighter is coming home to defend his title this summer. The undefeated World Boxing Organization Lightweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,98252,98253,82],"class_list":["post-650550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news5cleveland","tag-northeast-ohio-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650550","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=650550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}