{"id":337241,"date":"2025-12-26T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337241\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:14:07","slug":"willibaldo-garcia-falls-ill-title-fight-vs-kenshiro-teraji-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337241\/","title":{"rendered":"Willibaldo Garc\u00eda falls ill, title fight vs. Kenshiro Teraji off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 26, 2025, 03:21 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Willibaldo Garc\u00eda&#8217;s junior bantamweight title clash against Kenshiro Teraji was cancelled on Friday after Garc\u00eda fell ill in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda (23-6-2, 13 KOs) was set to defend his IBF title on Saturday on the undercard of Naoya Inoue and Alan Picasso&#8217;s undisputed junior featherweight bout.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/44976150\/naoya-inoue-boxing-see-here-12-reasons-why\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/0503\/r1487318_1286x1286_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47389043\/naoya-inoue-stands-tall-worrying-problem-lurking\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/1222\/r1592657_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old had made weight and faced off against Teraji (25-2, 16 KOs) for the last time at the ceremonial weigh-in in Riyadh earlier on Friday, before it was confirmed he was not cleared to fight, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/willibaldo-garcia-drops-out-of-title-defense-against-kenshiro-teraji-at-ring-v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ring Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sean Gibbons, who manages Garc\u00eda, told Ring Magazine the fighter had a stomach problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything was great,&#8221; Gibbons said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This morning, Willibaldo made weight fantastic. Then did the second day ceremony, [and] everything was great. I don&#8217;t know what he had, but his stomach wasn&#8217;t feeling good. So I went to have his stomach checked, and he&#8217;s just not feeling great. That&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 26, 2025, 03:21 PM ET Willibaldo Garc\u00eda&#8217;s junior bantamweight title clash against Kenshiro Teraji was cancelled on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-337241","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\/337241","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=337241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}