{"id":16661,"date":"2025-07-04T18:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/noakes-vs-mason-briton-to-fight-for-vacant-wbo-lightweight-world-title\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:40:58","slug":"noakes-vs-mason-briton-to-fight-for-vacant-wbo-lightweight-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/noakes-vs-mason-briton-to-fight-for-vacant-wbo-lightweight-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Noakes vs Mason: Briton to fight for vacant WBO lightweight world title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Briton Sam Noakes will fight fellow unbeaten contender Abdullah Mason for the vacant WBO lightweight world title in Saudi Arabia this November.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old from Maidstone has won all 17 of his professional bouts, stopping 15 opponents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Mason, 21, also boasts a perfect record, with 17 knockouts from 19 victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WBO ordered the bout after stripping former champion Keyshawn Davis, who failed to make weight for a cancelled fight against Edwin De Los Santos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight will take place during Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Riyadh Season, with the exact date and venue yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The undercard will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cdjx20023xvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">London&#8217;s Anthony Yarde challenging WBC light-heavyweight champion David Benavidez,<\/a> and a welterweight main event between WBO champion Brian Norman Jr and Devin Haney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cvg1q1z4x48o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briton Sam Noakes will fight fellow unbeaten contender Abdullah Mason for the vacant WBO lightweight world title in Saudi Arabia this November. The 27-year-old from Maidstone has won all 17 of his professional bouts, stopping 15 opponents. American Mason, 21, also boasts a perfect record, with 17 knockouts from 19 victories. The WBO ordered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16663,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions\/16663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}