Brandon Adams will face Caoimhin Agyarko in an IBF junior middleweight eliminator on April 11 at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas.
Adams-Agyarko, a scheduled 12-round bout atop a card promoted by DMG Promotions, was believed to have originally been set for April 18 at the Toyota Center in Ontario, California.
Adams, 26-4 (16 KOs), won a 10-round unanimous decision over Serhii Bohachuk in September in a rematch of their 2021 clash, in which Bohachuk was stopped. Adams, a 36-year-old from Watts, California, will now seek to put himself in position to fight for a world title for the second time in his career. His only other title shot came against Jermall Charlo for the WBC middleweight title in 2019.
Agyarko, 18-0 (7 KOs), won a split decision over Ishmael Davis in September. A 29-year-old from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Agyarko will be fighting in the United States for the first time in his career.
The winner will be the mandatory challenger for the current IBF junior middleweight titleholder, Josh Kelly, 18-1-1 (9 KOs). Kelly, a 31-year-old from Sunderland, England, upset Bakhram Murtazaliev on January 31, winning a majority decision. Murtazaliev’s team has petitioned for an immediate rematch, given the scoring of a 10-10 round in the 12th frame of that fight.
Lucas Ketelle is the author of “Inside the Ropes of Boxing,” a guide for young fighters, a writer for BoxingScene and a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. Find him on X at @BigDogLukie.
