Fight Week: Adames vs. Warburton Headlines Zuffa Boxing 13 in Riyadh

WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames meets Gerome Warburton in the 10-round main event of Riyadh Season Zuffa Boxing 13 on Saturday at The Venue in Riyadh. The fight is set for a 165-pound contract weight, so Adames' title is not on the line.

Zuffa's Nov. 10 official card lists a seven-bout program, with the first fight at 8 a.m. ET / 5 a.m. PT. The show streams on Paramount+ in the United States and Canada and airs on Sky Sports in the U.K. and Ireland. BBC described it as Zuffa Boxing's first event in Saudi Arabia. A separate main-event start time has not been published on the official card.

Adames (25-1-1, 18 KOs) is making his first start since a third title defense against Austin Williams. Zuffa's Oct. 30 release placed that fight at "less than eight months" ago and did not name the month. The Ring, in a post this week, said February; BBC said March.

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Warburton (18-2-2, 2 KOs), a southpaw from Colwyn Bay, Wales, is coming off back-to-back decision wins over former British middleweight champion Nathan Heaney.

The 10-round bantamweight co-feature is former world champion Jason Moloney (29-4, 20 KOs) against Mexico's Andres Teran (19-2, 14 KOs). Bruno Surace meets unbeaten Kamil Bednarek at super middleweight over 10 rounds. The official prelims are Jakhongir Zokirov vs. Brandon Colantonio (heavyweight, six rounds), Radzhab Butaev vs. Alexander Castro (middleweight, 10), Ivan Ortiz vs. Dariial Kuchmenov (lightweight, eight) and Tullo Boymatov vs. Moro Kanla (light heavyweight, eight).

Zuffa's October release set the main event at 165 pounds — five pounds over the middleweight limit — while the official card lists that bout under super middleweight. Either way, the WBC title is not at stake, as BBC also reported. We covered the announcement when it was made official on Oct. 30. The card follows last week's Zuffa Boxing 12 in London, where Clarke stopped Chris Billam-Smith in the seventh round.

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