{"id":313254,"date":"2025-12-13T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313254\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T03:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:42:10","slug":"stephen-fulton-vacates-title-carrington-vs-castro-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313254\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fulton vacates title, Carrington vs Castro upgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After grievously missing weight in last Saturday\u2019s super featherweight debut against O\u2019Shaquie Foster, Stephen Fulton has predictably <a href=\"https:\/\/danrafael.substack.com\/p\/notebook-foster-keeps-130-title-vacates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vacated<\/a> his WBC featherweight belt. What was originally an interim title defense between titlist Bruce Carrington and challenger Carlos Castro, the co-feature for Teofimo Lopez vs Shakur Stevenson on January 31st, will now have the full title on the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fulton (23-2, 8 KO) took the belt from Brandon Figueroa in their February rematch and immediately made a beeline for Foster, only to hit the scales at 132 and lethargically stagger his way to a wide decision loss. We\u2019ll see where he ends up in the WBC\u2019s next rankings update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The WBC\u2019s alleged plan was to hold a sort of mini-tournament to determine the next mandatory challenger at 126, pitting Carrington (16-0, 9 KO) against Mateus Heita and Castro (30-3, 14 KO) against wayward former champ Rey Vargas in the semis. \u201cShu Shu\u201d did his part, but the Vargas fight never materialized; Castro hasn\u2019t seen action since flooring Fulton in a split decision loss two Septembers ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Still, good fight. Castro has only ever lost to quality operators and two of his three defeats came via split decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After grievously missing weight in last Saturday\u2019s super featherweight debut against O\u2019Shaquie Foster, Stephen Fulton has predictably vacated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-313254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313254","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=313254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}