{"id":947394,"date":"2026-10-26T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947394\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:58:30","slug":"lindolfo-delgado-withdraws-from-arthur-biyarslanov-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947394\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindolfo Delgado withdraws from Arthur Biyarslanov fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Saturday\u2019s Mexico vs The World show in Riyadh is falling apart at a remarkable rate. Days after Lorenzo Parra failed his pre-fight medical for a planned featherweight title shot against Rafael Espinoza, forcing no. 15 Ricardo Blandon to step in, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pugboxing\/status\/2114566957202907259\" rel=\"nofollow\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officialwalks\/status\/2114335182132011134\" rel=\"nofollow\">outlets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B2I0164Xy3c&amp;t=154s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> earlier today that super lightweight contender Lindolfo Delgado declined to travel for his vacant title bout against Arthur Biyarslanov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The IBF has yet to comment and no replacement opponent has yet been named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Frankly, he\u2019s right to not go. It\u2019s absolutely ludicrous that Turki is forcing this to go on; multiple other high-profile Saudi events, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/tennis\/sinner-set-return-postponed-six-kings-slam-2026-10-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six Kings Slam<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topspeed.com\/dakar-rally-2027-moves-out-of-saudi-arabia-amid-security-concerns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dakar Rally<\/a>, have already been postponed and\/or relocated. The State Department recently recalled its \u201cnon-emergency employees\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/en\/international-travel\/travel-advisories\/saudi-arabia.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">advises<\/a> that Americans \u201creconsider travel\u201d to the country. Dan Rafael recently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanRafael1\/status\/2113085338868486286\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> that commentary may be done remotely from London. All of these athletes are at serious risk for the sake of holding an event that would be exponentially safer, more convenient, and more lucrative in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s not going to get safer anytime soon, either. Recent reporting indicates that the United States and Israel have plans in place to potentially escalate hostilities against Iran either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/25\/centcom-reportedly-has-plans-for-iran-strikes-will-trump-approve-them\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/21\/us\/politics\/us-israel-renewed-iran-strikes.html?eafs_enabled=false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after<\/a> next week\u2019s midterm elections, which would prompt immediate retaliation against their Gulf allies. Everyone involved in this production could very easily wind up stranded or dead if things take a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But hey, they\u2019re saving boxing, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s Mexico vs The World show in Riyadh is falling apart at a remarkable rate. Days after Lorenzo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-947394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947394","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=947394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}