{"id":481963,"date":"2024-04-15T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481963"},"modified":"2024-04-15T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:47:13","slug":"wilder-reveals-zhangs-bout-could-be-his-last-dance","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wilder-reveals-zhangs-bout-could-be-his-last-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilder reveals Zhang&#8217;s bout could be his &#8216;last dance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder has revealed his clash vs. Zhilei Zhang on the undercard of Dmitry Bivol, and Artur Beterbiev&#8217;s undisputed light heavyweight world title in the Middle East could be the last time we see him in the ring.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first face off between Zhilei Zhang and Deontay Wilder ahead of huge fight on June 1st \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WilderZhang?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WilderZhang<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Boxing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Boxing<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BeterbievBivol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BeterbievBivol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e0CidGAtVK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/e0CidGAtVK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BoxingEnthusiast (@BoxingEnth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoxingEnth\/status\/1779939417014128929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Deontay was defeated very badly by Joseph Parker at the end of the last year, while his Chinese opponent also suffered a defeat from Parker in his last time that he stepped on the ring in the past month.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming match between the American and Zhang was confirmed in London today.<\/p>\n<p>The American boxer revealed he treats the upcoming bout as &#8220;his last dance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the time comes to step on the ring, we see if I got it or not. I&#8217;m holding it as my last dance, my last opportunity,&#8221; Deontay shared with the media.<\/p>\n<p>Both boxers will need the victory after the losses against Joseph as they want to be among the contenders in the heavyweight division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder has revealed his clash vs. Zhilei Zhang on the undercard of Dmitry Bivol, and Artur Beterbiev&#8217;s undisputed light heavyweight world title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481964,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18144,21331,18830],"news_category":[20045,14084],"gn_keywords":[18146,21332,22799],"acf":{"announce":"Deontay hinted that the fight with Zhilei could be his last.","video":["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\/481963"}],"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=481963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481965,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481963\/revisions\/481965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481963"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481963"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}