{"id":169152,"date":"2025-06-09T02:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169152\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:40:08","slug":"wbo-set-to-order-sam-noakes-abdullah-mason-for-vacant-lightweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169152\/","title":{"rendered":"WBO Set To Order Sam Noakes-Abdullah Mason For Vacant Lightweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORFOLK, Virginia \u2014 Abdullah Mason <\/a>came to Keyshawn Davis\u2019 hometown hopeful that beating Jeremia Nakathila would lead to a shot at his WBO lightweight title in his following fight.
Mason remains optimistic about fighting for the WBO 135-pound championship next, but the undefeated southpaw\u2019s probable opponent obviously has changed. Davis gave up his title when he weighed 4.3 pounds above the limit <\/a>Friday afternoon for his canceled fight with Edwin De Los Santos on Saturday night<\/p>\n

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The Ring has confirmed that the WBO is therefore expected to order a bout between Sam Noakes (17-0, 15 KOs)<\/a>, its No. 1 contender from Maidstone, England, and Mason (19-0, 17 KOs), ranked No. 2, for its vacant lightweight title.
Mason, of Cleveland, Ohio, still hopes to fight Davis (13-0, 9 KOs, 1 NC) one day, but he sent a message to Noakes and the British contender\u2019s team following his fifth-round TKO victory over Namibia\u2019s Nakathila (26-5, 21 KOs)<\/a> in a 10-round main event ESPN aired Saturday night from Scope Arena.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s make it happen,\u201d Mason told a group of reporters. \u201cLet\u2019s have a great fight and it\u2019ll be amazing. That\u2019s something that people wanna see. I feel like Sam Noakes is definitely a worthy opponent. He let his hands go. Great offense as well. But it\u2019ll be something amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The heavy-handed Noakes, 27, is The Ring\u2019s No. 10-rated lightweight contender<\/a>. Mason, 21, has displayed plenty of maturity for his age, power and skill, but he is not ranked among The Ring\u2019s top 10 at 135.<\/p>\n

Putting together a Noakes-Mason match shouldn\u2019t be too troublesome. Noakes\u2019 promoter, Frank Warren, and Mason\u2019s promoter, Bob Arum, have worked closely together in recent years, most notably with former WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

An ambitious Mason is willing to travel to England for an opportunity to become a world champion as well. Mason appreciates boxing\u2019s intense fan base there and is intrigued by fighting in Noakes\u2019 home country.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing out to the UK, that\u2019d be crazy,\u201d Mason told The Ring. \u201cI\u2019m definitely all for the idea, if everything is right to go out there, show out there. The one thing about the UK, me and my team actually been talking about it, how the experience would be going out there, just wanting to be out there period because the fan base is so crazy. It\u2019s even crazier than it is here.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey stadiums be packed \u2014 70,000, 80,000 people. Here you get some crazy packed fights, but it\u2019s not getting up there. You get 20 [thousand], 30,000 over here. But going out there, it wouldn\u2019t only be big for me, but I\u2019ll say probably big for boxing to showcase my talents in a country where they love boxing. And I feel like I do have those talents, to where if I go out there, they\u2019ll love me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORFOLK, Virginia \u2014 Abdullah Mason came to Keyshawn Davis\u2019 hometown hopeful that beating Jeremia Nakathila would lead to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-169152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114651098492665190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}