{"id":428632,"date":"2023-03-07T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T06:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428632"},"modified":"2023-03-07T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T06:09:08","slug":"furys-big-belly-will-be-under-attack-says-usyk","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/furys-big-belly-will-be-under-attack-says-usyk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury\u2019s \u201cbig belly\u201d will be under attack, says Usyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk says he&#8217;s not afraid of Tyson Fury and he\u2019s going to be punching his \u201cbig belly\u201d many times if the two boxers fight for the undisputed championship on April 29.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd4a Don&#39;t miss out on this exclusive interview with Oleksandr Usyk.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GNev2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GNev2<\/a> travelled to Usyk\u2019s training camp; where he opens up about the Ukraine war, losing his Father and talks Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n<p>Watch now \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EroQxp6UIJ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/EroQxp6UIJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QUDcnpxiv5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QUDcnpxiv5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Overlap (@WeAreTheOverlap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreTheOverlap\/status\/1632773043050401794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyson Fury is belly, big belly. Yes, of course [I\u2019m going to punch his big belly], every time,\u201d Usyk said in an interview with The Overlap.<\/p>\n<p>The IBF\/WBA\/WBO champion Usyk (20-0, 13 KOs) made it clear that he and WBC champ Fury need this fight because it\u2019s been 30 years since the titles have been held by one person.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-428634 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fury-usyk11.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>However, at this point, it\u2019s still up in the air if the Usyk-Fury fight will get made because the perception is Fury could negotiate himself out of the match as he did with Anthony Joshua last year.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s talk that Fury blew the deal to have the Usyk fight staged in Saudi Arabia by asking for too much money from the Saudis, leaving the two fighters having to go to the UK and potentially making less.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk is totally unafraid of Fury (33-0-1, 24 KOs) and doesn\u2019t seem worried about giving away so much size to the big 6\u20199\u2033 British fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk says he&#8217;s not afraid of Tyson Fury and he\u2019s going to be punching his \u201cbig belly\u201d many times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428633,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17307,17309,17440],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The two are expected to fight on April 29","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428632"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428632"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}