Bantamweight contender Avril Mathie suffered an undisclosed injury and is out of her title fight against IBF champion Ebanie Bridges, a source told ESPN’s Mike Rothstein on Friday.
According to the source, promoter Matchroom is looking for a replacement opponent for Bridges.
The fight between the fellow Australians was scheduled for Dec. 9, on the Regis Prograis-Devin Haney DAZN PPV at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California.
Bridges (9-1, 4 KO), 37, ESPN’s No. 2 ranked bantamweight, won the title by defeating Maria Cecilia Roman by unanimous decision in March 2022. She made one successful defense, an eighth-round stoppage of Shannon O’Connell last December.
Mathie (8-1-1, 3 KO), 36, started he career by winning her first eight fights, with one draw, but lost a 10-round decision to Ramla Ali in her most recent outing in February at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. This was supposed to be Mathie’s first title fight on her career.
Information from Michael Rotshtein was used on this report.