{"id":437267,"date":"2023-06-04T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437267"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:11:59","slug":"usyk-signs-deal-with-saudi-arabia-promoter","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usyk-signs-deal-with-saudi-arabia-promoter\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk signs deal with Saudi Arabia promoter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight boxing champion Alexander Usyk has signed a long-term contract with the Saudi Arabian promotion company Skill Challenge Promotions.<\/p>\n<p>The company is headed by Prince Khaled bin Abdul Aziz and is engaged in organizing various entertainment events in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a great honor and joy for me to return to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It&#8217;s a great opportunity to work with His Highness Prince Khaled and win the WBC heavyweight title and become the undisputed world champion,&#8221; Usyk said at a press conference in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s capital, Riyadh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to the family <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usykaa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@usykaa<\/a>!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zS0lLHH5W8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zS0lLHH5W8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Skill Challenge Promotions (@scpbxng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scpbxng\/status\/1665060073951879168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight boxing champion Alexander Usyk has signed a long-term contract with the Saudi Arabian promotion company Skill Challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":292423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17309],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18145],"acf":{"announce":"\"It's a great opportunity to work with His Highness Prince Khaled\", he said","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\/437267"}],"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=437267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437267"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437267"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}