{"id":18945,"date":"2026-02-01T01:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=18945"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:34:07","slug":"adames-illness-withdraws-from-wbc-title-defense-vs-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=18945","title":{"rendered":"Adames (illness) withdraws from WBC title defense vs. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"byline-wrap\">\n<ul class=\"authors byline-authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Andreas Hale<span class=\"timestamp \">Jan 30, 2026, 11:29 AM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\"><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas&#8217; free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM&#8217;s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z&#8217;s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film &#8220;Bridges&#8221; in 2024.<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames has withdrawn from his title defense Saturday against Austin &#8220;Ammo&#8221; Williams due to an illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Ring reported that Adames (24-1-1, 18 KOs) was unable to hit the scale and weigh in Friday morning due to the illness and had been pulled from the bout. The fight was part of &#8220;The Ring 6&#8221; card at Madison Square Garden, headlined by WBO 140-pound champion Teofimo Lopez defending his title against three-division titleholder Shakur Stevenson.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47755426\/teofimo-lopez-jr-vs-shakur-stevenson-picks-predictions-stylistic-breakdown\" class=\"img-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/r1606829_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Adames, 31, hasn&#8217;t fought since last February when he battled Hamzah Sheeraz to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/43966449\/hamzah-sheeraz-settles-draw-carlos-adames\" target=\"_blank\">controversial split draw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217; manager, Sam Katkovski, confirmed to ESPN that his fighter will stay on the card and face short-notice replacement Wendy Toussaint (17-3, 7 KOs) in what will now be a super middleweight bout at 168 pounds. According to BoxRec, Toussaint was scheduled to fight Feb. 28 against an opponent to be determined. He last fought in June when he beat Joseph Hicks by split decision.<\/p>\n<p>Williams (19-1, 13 KOs) last fought in July when he recorded a ninth-round TKO of Ivan Vazquez in Frisco, Texas.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47779064\/adames-illness-withdraws-wbc-title-defense-vs-williams\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreas HaleJan 30, 2026, 11:29 AM ET Close Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas&#8217; free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM&#8217;s Fight Nation. 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