{"id":213571,"date":"2025-10-20T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213571\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:03:07","slug":"lewis-edmondson-v-ezra-taylor-edmondson-pulls-out-of-fight-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213571\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Edmondson v Ezra Taylor: Edmondson pulls out of fight with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Light-heavyweight Lewis Edmondson has withdrawn from Saturday&#8217;s fight against Nottingham&#8217;s Ezra Taylor due to injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British and Commonwealth champion Edmondson suffered a hip injury in the final stages of his training camp that has forced him to pull out of the bout at the O2 Arena in London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair were due to meet and settle a long-standing feud on the undercard of Joseph Parker against Fabio Wardley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Minor setback, we&#8217;ll be back soon,&#8221; Edmondson posted on his instagram story as the news was announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Saint&#8221; &#8211; who is from Southampton &#8211; won his domestic titles a year ago in London when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/czxgxrkvg0lo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he beat Dan Azeez<\/a> by majority decision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then he cruised to a unanimous decision win over Oluwatosin Kejawa in early 2025 before suffering a first career loss in July to Ukrainian Daniel Lapin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unbeaten Taylor is still set to fight on Saturday&#8217;s bill in London despite the late change in opponent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old has 12 wins to his name with eight knockouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Light-heavyweight Lewis Edmondson has withdrawn from Saturday&#8217;s fight against Nottingham&#8217;s Ezra Taylor due to injury. British and Commonwealth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-213571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}