{"id":433833,"date":"2023-04-23T04:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T08:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433833"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:10:22","slug":"tayson-fury-replaces-usyk-with-pulev-for-a-fight-in-uae","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tayson-fury-replaces-usyk-with-pulev-for-a-fight-in-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Tayson Fury replaces Usyk with Pulev for a fight in UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury and Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev finalize a deal to fight on June 17 in Abu Dhabi. The sensational news was announced in Twitter, but specifies that the negotiations have not yet ended.<\/p>\n<p>On April 29, Fury was supposed to meet Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk, negotiations had been going on since the fall of 2022. A month earlier, the Ukrainian&#8217;s manager Aegis Klimas announced the cancellation of the fight, as the two could not agree on the money distribution.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Tyson Fury and Kubrat Pulev are finalizing a deal for a WBC title fight on June 17, sources told ESPN. The site hasn\u2019t been finalized, but it&#8217;s expected to land in Abu Dhabi, UAE, which would deliver a first fight in the Middle East for boxing&#8217;s top star.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eh Jay (@PhilHay___) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilHay___\/status\/1649137131825033240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No matter how many compromises Usyk made, Fury still set new demands,&#8221; he emphasized at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Fury, 34, has 33 wins and one draw. Kubrat Pulev has two world-title fights under his belt, but lost both of them &#8211; against Vladimir Klitschko in 2015 and vs Anthony Joshua in 2020. The Bulgarian heavyweight star last fought Derek Chisora and lost on points last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury and Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev finalize a deal to fight on June 17 in Abu Dhabi. The sensational news was announced in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":433837,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18144,17440],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18146,18117],"acf":{"announce":"The Bulgarian boxer has two world-title fights under his belt in 2015 and 2020","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\/433833"}],"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=433833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433833"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433833"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}