{"id":662101,"date":"2025-12-30T08:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662101\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:43:13","slug":"gary-antuanne-russell-vs-andy-hiraoka-finds-another-date-for-wba-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662101\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Antuanne Russell vs. Andy Hiraoka finds another date for WBA title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/gary-antuanne-russell-2931467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gary Antuanne Russell<\/a>&#8211;<a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/andy-hiraoka-3120082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Hiraoka <\/a>junior welterweight title fight is being planned for the first quarter of 2026, sources tell The Ring.\u00a0<br \/>Russell-Hiraoka was set to take place Nov. 14 on the Jake Paul-Gervonta Davis undercard. Russell, like Davis, is with PBC. So when Paul went on to fight Joshua, a Matchroom boxer, <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/gary-russell-jr-reflects-on-career-inactivity-seeks-gervonta-davis-lamont-roach-jr-fights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russell-Hiraoka needed a new home.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russell, the younger brother of former titleholder Gary Russell Jr., won the title in  March with a wide points victory over Jose Valenzuela in New York. That followed his first defeat, which came against Alberto Puello in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russell, 29, is The Ring\u2019s No. 5 boxer at 140 pounds. He fights out of Capitol Heights, Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Hiraoka (24-0, 19 KOs) is The Ring\u2019s No. 10 junior welterweight. In his last fight, he stopped Ismael Barroso in Round 9 on September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Coppinger is The Ring\u2019s senior insider. He co-hosts \u201cInside the Ring\u201d on <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DAZN<\/a> every Monday with Max Kellerman. Follow him on X\/Instagram: @MikeCoppinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gary Antuanne Russell&#8211;Andy Hiraoka junior welterweight title fight is being planned for the first quarter of 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662102,"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-662101","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\/115807636908208641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662101","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=662101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}