{"id":342409,"date":"2025-12-30T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342409\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:48:08","slug":"gary-antuanne-russell-vs-andy-hiraoka-finds-another-date-for-wba-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342409\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Antuanne Russell vs. Andy Hiraoka finds another date for WBA title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gary Antuanne Russell<\/a>–Andy Hiraoka <\/a>junior welterweight title fight is being planned for the first quarter of 2026, sources tell The Ring.\u00a0
Russell-Hiraoka was set to take place Nov. 14 on the Jake Paul-Gervonta Davis undercard. Russell, like Davis, is with PBC. So when Paul went on to fight Joshua, a Matchroom boxer, Russell-Hiraoka needed a new home.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Russell, the younger brother of former titleholder Gary Russell Jr., won the title in March with a wide points victory over Jose Valenzuela in New York. That followed his first defeat, which came against Alberto Puello in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Russell, 29, is The Ring\u2019s No. 5 boxer at 140 pounds. He fights out of Capitol Heights, Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Hiraoka (24-0, 19 KOs) is The Ring\u2019s No. 10 junior welterweight. In his last fight, he stopped Ismael Barroso in Round 9 on September 2024.<\/p>\n

Mike Coppinger is The Ring\u2019s senior insider. He co-hosts \u201cInside the Ring\u201d on DAZN<\/a> every Monday with Max Kellerman. Follow him on X\/Instagram: @MikeCoppinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gary Antuanne Russell–Andy Hiraoka junior welterweight title fight is being planned for the first quarter of 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-342409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342409","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=342409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}