{"id":835077,"date":"2026-11-15T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/835077\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:22:09","slug":"world-champion-adames-beats-welshman-warburton-by-unanimous-decision-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/835077\/","title":{"rendered":"World champion Adames beats Welshman Warburton by unanimous decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames beat Gerome Warburton by unanimous decision in a non-title super middleweight bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warburton, who holds the WBC continental title, climbed the ropes in the corner after the final round to celebrate going the distance against top-ranked Adames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welshman raised his gloves in pride, but surely knew the referee would raise Adames&#8217; hand, with all three judges scoring the fight in the Dominican&#8217;s favour (100-90, 98-92, 99-91).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adames, who was making his Zuffa Boxing debut, dominated the fight from the first bell until the last as Warburton, now 18-2-3 as a professional, adopted a defensive approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It served the Colwyn Bay fighter well as he withstood some strong shots from Adames, who now boasts a 26-1-1 professional record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most of Adames success came with shots to the body, but he never threatened to claim a 19th career knockout victory against an opponent who showed flashes of danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having stayed in the fight, Warburton&#8217;s best offence came in the later rounds, with the eighth and 10th being awarded to him by one of the judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames beat Gerome Warburton by unanimous decision in a non-title super middleweight bout in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-835077","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\/835077","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=835077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}