{"id":818941,"date":"2026-10-30T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818941\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:42:09","slug":"wbc-middleweight-champions-adames-to-face-warburton-in-non-title-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818941\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC middleweight champions Adames to face Warburton in non-title bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WBC middleweight world champion Carlos Adames will make his Zuffa Boxing debut against Welshman Gerome Warburton on Saturday, 14 November, but his title will not be at stake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adames is to face Warburton in a headline 165-pound (11st 11lb, 74.8kg) catchweight bout in Zuffa Boxing&#8217;s first event held in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old, whose record is 25-1-1, will step into the ring for the first fight since defending his title against Austin &#8216;Ammo&#8217; Williams in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warburton, who boasts an 18-2-2 professional record, takes on the once-beaten Dominican after a decision win <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cm0e301gwg19o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Nathan Heaney&#8217;s retirement match<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Colwyn Bay middleweight defended his WBA continental title by beating Heaney and has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ce8l6y8e7l0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated his desire for a world title fight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warburton will have to wait longer for that opportunity, as Adames will not put his WBC strap on the line in Riyadh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian boxer Jason Moloney will also make his Zuffa debut against Mexico&#8217;s Andres Teran in a 10-round bantamweight co-main event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC middleweight world champion Carlos Adames will make his Zuffa Boxing debut against Welshman Gerome Warburton on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818941","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\/818941","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=818941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}