Former super-featherweight world champion, Joe Cordina, will fight Abdullah Mason for the American’s WBO lightweight title on Saturday, July 4.
Cordina lost his IBF 130lb world title in May 2024, a shock defeat by Anthony Cacace the only loss in the Welsh boxer’s 19-fight professional career.
The 34-year-old from Cardiff has since beaten Jaret Gonzalez Quiroz to claim the vacant WBO global lightweight title before dominating Gabriel Flores Jr in California on the way to a unanimous victory on points in December 2025.
Mason will have home advantage for the first defence of the belt he won in an epic encounter with Sam Noakes in November 2025, with Cordina’s challenge to be staged at CSU Wolstein Centre in Cleveland.
Cordina said: “This is a massive test for me, but this it’s one that I’m more than capable of coming through with flying colours. Abdullah Mason is a very good fighter, and he’s going to do big things in boxing, but I’m going to mess up the homecoming.
Cordina’s promoter, Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn, said: “Abdullah is a tremendous talent and a real star for the future, but Joe has been there, done it and got the t-shirt.
Cordina won British and Commonwealth titles at lightweight earlier in his career, having been a decorated amateur boxer who fought at an Olympics and in the same Team GB programme as his friend Anthony Joshua.-BBC
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