{"id":21494,"date":"2024-08-22T17:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boxing-fabio-wardley-v-frazer-clarke-shakur-stevenson-v-joe-cordina-and-skye-nicolson-v-raven-chapman-added-to-undercard\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T17:37:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:37:31","slug":"boxing-fabio-wardley-v-frazer-clarke-shakur-stevenson-v-joe-cordina-and-skye-nicolson-v-raven-chapman-added-to-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boxing-fabio-wardley-v-frazer-clarke-shakur-stevenson-v-joe-cordina-and-skye-nicolson-v-raven-chapman-added-to-undercard\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Fabio Wardley v Frazer Clarke, Shakur Stevenson v Joe Cordina and Skye Nicolson v Raven Chapman added to undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British trio Joe Cordina, Raven Chapman and Jack Massey will all challenge for world titles on 12 October in Saudi Arabia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welshman Cordina faces WBC champion Shakur Stevenson in an ambitious step up to lightweight to take on one of the world&#8217;s most talented undefeated fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chapman will faces fellow undefeated fighter and defending champion Skye Nicolson for the WBC featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Massey, 31, will face Australian IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bouts will take place on the undercard of the undisputed light-heavyweight world-title fight between Russians Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also on the undercard is the highly anticipated heavyweight rematch between Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wardley, 29, will defend his title against Olympian Clarke, 33, after their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/68693947\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">thrilling first fight ended in a split-decision<\/a> draw in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the second time a British heavyweight title fight takes place in the Saudi capital, after Wardley beat David Adeleye in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ipswich&#8217;s Wardley has won 19 fights having competed just four times on the unlicensed white-collar scene before turning pro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clarke, from Burton-upon-Trent, captured bronze at Tokyo 2020 and has won eight pro bouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also in action on the night is Chris Eubank Jr, who takes on Kamil Szeremeta in a middleweight bout, and light-heavyweight prospect Ben Whittaker against Liam Cameron.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cnd064ng0nwo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British trio Joe Cordina, Raven Chapman and Jack Massey will all challenge for world titles on 12 October in Saudi Arabia. Welshman Cordina faces WBC champion Shakur Stevenson in an ambitious step up to lightweight to take on one of the world&#8217;s most talented undefeated fighters. Chapman will faces fellow undefeated fighter and defending champion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21496,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21494\/revisions\/21496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}