Stephen Fulton will still have the opportunity to become a three-division world champion Saturday night. Just not in the way he expected.
The current WBC featherweight champion missed weight at Friday’s official weigh-in for his challenge of WBC super featherweight champion O’Shaquie Foster, Uncrowned confirmed.
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Fulton tipped the scales at 132 pounds, two pounds over the 130-pound super featherweight limit for the co-feature of this weekend’s Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz vs. Lamont Roach Prime Video pay-per-view.
Ironically, it was Fulton who was moving up in weight for the fight but still couldn’t make the championship limit.
The fight will still proceed as planned at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio — and in a shocking last-minute move, it will now be for the WBC interim lightweight title (135 pounds).
The victor of the Foster vs. Fulton bout will be the mandatory challenger to three-division champion Shakur Stevenson, who challenges Teofimo Lopez for the WBO super lightweight strap on Jan. 31.
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The WBC previously upgraded the Jadier Herrera vs. Ricardo Nunez lightweight title final eliminator to an interim title fight at its annual conversation on Wednesday in Bangkok. Now, just two days later, that decision appears to have been reversed.
Foster and Fulton are both expected to retain their world titles at 130 pounds and 126 pounds, respectively, regardless of the result on Saturday.
Fulton previously held the WBC and WBO super bantamweight titles. He lost the belts to Naoya Inoue in July 2023. Fulton dethroned Brandon Figueroa of the WBC featherweight title this past February and was looking to win a world title in a third successive weight class on Saturday.
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The fight between Fulton and Foster has been scheduled on at least three occasions in the past six months. The pair finally entered fight week with a firm date, but their anticipated title clash has now lost some of its allure.
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