{"id":740252,"date":"2026-08-16T23:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740252\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:26:23","slug":"emmanuel-tagoe-danielle-perkins-off-shields-scott-card-after-missing-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740252\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Tagoe, Danielle Perkins off Shields-Scott card after missing weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A double withdrawal thanks to missed-weight cuts occurred in Atlanta Friday when Ghana\u2019s Emmanuel Tagoe was more than nine pounds heavy for his co-main event versus unbeaten 140lbs contender Ernesto \u201cTito\u201d Mercado and former title challenger Danielle Perkins also was scratched.<br \/>Perkins, 6-1 (3 KOs), missed weight for her planned light-heavyweight bout against Olivia Curry, 7-3-2 (2 KOs). Perkins lost to Claressa Shields by unanimous decision for the undisputed heavyweight title last year.<br \/>Shields, 18-0 (3 KOs), headlines Saturday\u2019s DAZN card at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, meeting Kaye Scott for the WBC middleweight title.<br \/>Mercado, 19-0 (18 KOs), of Pomona, California, was to make his debut for promoter Dmitriy Salita Saturday, and the promoter is actively seeking a replacement fighter for Tagoe, a Ghana fighter who met current WBC welterweight Ryan Garcia in 2022.<br \/>Georgia commission officials would\u2019ve let Tagoe fight if he could\u2019ve got within seven pounds, but after a two-hour period following his first weigh-in, he was still 9.2 pounds over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A double withdrawal thanks to missed-weight cuts occurred in Atlanta Friday when Ghana\u2019s Emmanuel Tagoe was more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,244950,244949,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-danielle-perkins-off-shields-scott-card-after-missing-weight","tag-emmanuel-tagoe","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740252","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=740252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}