{"id":673476,"date":"2026-07-04T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673476\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:47:13","slug":"abdullah-mason-albert-bell-bruce-carrington-and-rene-palacios-make-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673476\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdullah Mason, Albert Bell, Bruce Carrington and Rene Palacios make weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdullah Mason has the belt, and now he\u2019s on to the challenge of staying power.<br \/>The 22-year-old WBO lightweight champion from Cleveland weighed in at the limit 135lbs Friday for his first title defense headlining TNT\u2019s new monthly series, \u201cThe Fight,\u201d when he\u2019ll meet No. 6-ranked contender Albert Bell at Cleveland State\u2019s Wolstein Center.<br \/>DAZN will also stream the action.<br \/>\u201cThis is gonna be big for Cleveland,\u201d Mason said after weighing in. \u201cI\u2019ve got an appetite for smoke.\u201d<br \/>Bell weighed in at 134.9lbs after replacing Joe Cordina as the opponent last month when Cordina was denied a travel visa from the U.K.<br \/>For the co-main, new WBC featherweight champion Bruce \u201cShuShu\u201d Carrington is also making his first title defense, meeting ProBoxTV product Rene Palacios of Mexico, a hard-hitting southpaw who elbowed Carrington as they posed for photos after weighing in.<br \/>Carrington weighed 124.9 and Palacios was at 125.7.\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI\u2019m gonna smoke him. He\u2019s getting knocked out,\u201d Carrington said.<br \/>U.S. Olympian Delante \u201cTiger\u201d Johnson was also on weight at 147lbs for his meeting with unbeaten Christopher Guerrero, who was 146.6lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abdullah Mason has the belt, and now he\u2019s on to the challenge of staying power.The 22-year-old WBO lightweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[25416,225249,2560,6102,10078,18648,225250,104565,225251,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-abdullah-mason","tag-albert-bell","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-bruce-carrington","tag-christopher-guerrero","tag-delante-johnson","tag-rene-palacios","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673476","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=673476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}