The WBC middleweight title fight between Carlos Adames and Austin Williams has been rescheduled for March 21st according to The Ring Magazine’s Mike Coppinger.
Adames (24-1-1, 18 KOs) will collide with ‘Ammo’ Williams (20-1, 13 KOs) to defend his belt in Orlando, Florida. Adames cited illness as the reason for him cancelling the originally planned bout on the undercard of Shakur Stevenson-Teofimo Lopez a day before the event at Madison Square Garden in New York on January 31st.
Williams instead faced late replacement Wendy Toussaint, winning a clear unanimous-decision. Adames was elevated to WBC champion in May 2024 having held the interim version of the belt. The Dominican would defend his title with a unanimous-decision victory over Terrell Gausha a month after being elevated to champion and would share a majority draw with England’s Hamzah Sheeraz last February.
Williams was due to fight for his first world title in New York. The 29-year-old southpaw’s only defeat coincidently came against Sheeraz on June 1st, 2024, losing by an 11th round stoppage.