{"id":401668,"date":"2026-02-01T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/401668\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:16:10","slug":"carlos-adames-botches-weight-cut-withdraws-from-austin-williams-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/401668\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Adames botches weight cut, withdraws from Austin Williams fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Idecboxing\/status\/2017260432977784847\" rel=\"nofollow\">As first reported by Keith Idec<\/a>, WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames is out of tomorrow\u2019s title defense against Austin \u201cAmmo\u201d Williams after falling ill before weigh-ins. Williams\u2019 team is on the hunt for a last-minute replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/carlos-adames-treated-for-dehydration-austin-williams-fight-is-cancelled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per Lance Pugmire<\/a>, Adames (24-1-1, 18 KO) was hospitalized due to dehydration. The Dominican slugger has fought just once in the last 19 months, a controversial draw with Hamzah Sheeraz last February that saw him take over down the stretch and arguably deserve an upset victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Williams (19-1, 13 KO) is 3-0 since a significantly less successful effort against Sheeraz in 2024, the best win a hard-fought decision over veteran Patrice Volny last March. While the obvious move on paper would be to reschedule this matchup once Adames recovers, that\u2019s not guaranteed, as Adames is long overdue for a mandatory defense against Meiirim Nursultanov. We recently saw a similar sequence of events play out with the IBF when super flyweight champ Willibaldo Garcia withdrew from a planned voluntary defense against Kenshiro Teraji, only to get slapped with an order to battle Andrew Moloney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of course, that\u2019s the IBF and this is the WBC, so who knows. We\u2019ll let you know if \u201cAmmo\u201d finds a new dance partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As first reported by Keith Idec, WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames is out of tomorrow\u2019s title defense against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-401668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401668","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=401668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}