{"id":429647,"date":"2023-03-11T04:46:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T09:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429647"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:09:42","slug":"usyk-fury-fight-is-close-to-be-agreed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usyk-fury-fight-is-close-to-be-agreed\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk &#8211; Fury fight is close to be agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WBA says it has received confirmation of an &#8220;agreement&#8221; between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s teams for their highly anticipated undisputed heavyweight fight.<\/p>\n<p>The clash was due to take place on April 29 at Wembley Stadium, but on Friday, Usyk&#8217;s promoter said the fight was &#8220;unlikely to happen next&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are closing in on a deal for an undisputed heavyweight championship fight on April 29 at London&#8217;s Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides notified the WBA that they have agreed to terms, president Gilberto Mendoza told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCoppinger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MikeCoppinger<\/a> on Friday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LrR0GkEFli\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LrR0GkEFli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN Ringside (@ESPNRingside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNRingside\/status\/1634324374470930433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the WBA says an agreement was made before Friday&#8217;s 22:00 GMT deadline. A\u00a0lawyer for Ukrainian Usyk told news agency Reuters the parties had agreed terms that will see Britain&#8217;s Fury take a 70% split to Usyk&#8217;s 30%.<\/p>\n<p>Fury, 34, is the WBC champion while 36-year-old Usyk holds the WBO, WBA and IBF belts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WBA says it has received confirmation of an &#8220;agreement&#8221; between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s teams for their highly anticipated undisputed heavyweight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":429648,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18144,17309,17440],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18146,18145,18117],"acf":{"announce":"Both parties found an agreement in the last possible moments before the Friday deadline ","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\/429647"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429647"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429647"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}