{"id":461146,"date":"2023-09-29T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461146"},"modified":"2023-09-29T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:01:35","slug":"fury-usyk-ink-deal-for-winter-bout","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fury-usyk-ink-deal-for-winter-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury, Usyk ink deal for winter bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have inked deals for an undisputed heavyweight championship bout in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The fight is planned for December 23<sup>rd<\/sup> or sometime in January. Fury will fight 1<sup>st<\/sup> with ex-UFC champ Francis Ngannou on October 28<sup>th<\/sup> in the same country, and if Tyson finishes the clash without injury, the boxing championship bout can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Fury-Usyk will crown boxing&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> undisputed heavyweight champ in the 4-belt era and is a rare meeting between heavyweights recognized as 2 of the best pound-for-pound.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tyson_Fury?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Tyson_Fury<\/a> and Oleksandr <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usykaa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Usykaa<\/a> have signed contracts for an undisputed heavyweight championship fight in Saudi Arabia, multiple sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCoppinger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MikeCoppinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fight could take place Dec. 23 or sometime in January, sources said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QzIwFQOUW3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QzIwFQOUW3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN Ringside (@ESPNRingside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNRingside\/status\/1707772634057130351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tyson, the WBC title holder, and Oleksandr, the WBA, IBF, and WBO champion, discussed a clash earlier this year in April at London&#8217;s Wembley Stadium before negotiations collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>In the past month, the Ukrainian (21-0, 14 KOs) fulfilled his WBA mandatory defense with a 9th-round KO of Daniel Dubois in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The English (33-0-1, 24 KOs) is 1 of the most popular stars in the boxing world. Fury even has a reality show that Netflix shows and has also been in WWE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have inked deals for an undisputed heavyweight championship bout in Saudi Arabia. The fight is planned for December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":461147,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18144,17309,17440],"news_category":[20045,16715],"gn_keywords":[18146,18145,18117],"acf":{"announce":"Tyson and Oleksandr will face each other, most likely in December.","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\/461146"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461150,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461146\/revisions\/461150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461146"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461146"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}