Belfast’s Caoimhin Agyarko says he will need to produce the “performance of my life” when he faces Brandon Adams in an IBF light-middleweight final eliminator in California on Saturday, 18 April.<\/p>\n
An agreement was struck between the respective teams before a purse bid was required, with the fight set to take place at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, east of Los Angeles, hosted by Adams promoter DMG.<\/p>\n
The winner will move on to fight for the title which is currently held by Russia’s Bakhram Murtazaliev, who defends against Sunderland’s Josh Kelly in Newcastle on 31 January.<\/p>\n
Agyarko improved his perfect record to 18 wins from as many contests with a narrow points victory over Ishmael Davis at Windsor Park on 13 September, 2025, the same day 36-year-old Adams improved to 26-4 with a points victory over Serhii Bohachuk in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
“I took a coupe of risks last year, stayed active and it’s paid off ,” 29-year-old Agyarko told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got my opportunity for a world title eliminator and this is where the hard work starts. It’s going to have to be the performance of my life going into his back yard against a really good opponent.<\/p>\n
“He’s coming off a really good win against Bohachuk who he has beaten twice, been in with [then WBC middleweight champion Jermall] Charlo, so he is high-level and I don’t think his age will play into it at all.<\/p>\n
“I may be younger and fresher, but I know what I’m up against in a tough fighter with experience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belfast’s Caoimhin Agyarko says he will need to produce the “performance of my life” when he faces Brandon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-360184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360184","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=360184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}