{"id":230935,"date":"2025-10-28T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230935\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:53:09","slug":"foster-fulton-title-bout-added-to-cruz-roach-card-on-dec-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230935\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster-Fulton title bout added to Cruz-Roach card on Dec. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andreas HaleOct 28, 2025, 02:35 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z’s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film “Bridges” in 2024.<\/p>\n

O’Shaquie Foster will finally defend his WBC junior lightweight title against Stephen Fulton Jr. on Dec. 6 in San Antonio as part of the undercard for a PBC Pay-Per-View on Prime event headlined by Lamont Roach Jr. vs. Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz, ESPN confirmed with Premier Boxing Champions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Ring Magazine originally reported that the fight was moved to Dec. 6 several weeks back after the Oct. 25 fight card headlined by Sebastian Fundora vs. Keith Thurman was postponed due to Fundora suffering a hand injury.<\/a> However, a deal for the fight to be rescheduled was not complete at the time. ESPN learned that a deal for the fight finally came together over the past few days and will finally happen after their two previous dates fell through.<\/p>\n

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Foster and Fulton were originally penciled in for August as part of a rumored rematch between Gervonta Davis and Lamont Roach Jr. That fight never came together and Davis has instead opted to face Jake Paul in November<\/a>. The fight was then moved to Oct. 25 but Fundora’s hand injury caused the entire card to be cancelled, leaving Foster-Fulton searching for a new date.<\/p>\n

This will be Foster’s first defense of the 130-pound title in his second championship reign after beating Robson Conceicao in November 2024<\/a>. Foster (23-3, 12 KOs) reclaimed the title after dropping a controversial split decision to Conceicao in July 2024.<\/p>\n

Fulton will move up to super featherweight a fight after beating Brandon Figueroa back in February<\/a> for the WBC featherweight title. Fulton (23-1, 8 KOs), whose only loss<\/a> is to Naoya Inoue, is aiming to become a three-division champion by beating Foster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas HaleOct 28, 2025, 02:35 PM ET CloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230935","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\/230935","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=230935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}