{"id":483645,"date":"2024-05-29T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483645"},"modified":"2024-05-29T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:57:45","slug":"fury-usyk-rematch-set-for-end-of-december-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fury-usyk-rematch-set-for-end-of-december-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury-Usyk rematch set for end of December in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heavyweight rematch between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will be on December 21<sup>st<\/sup> in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh revealed today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oleksandr Usyk. Tyson Fury. The Rematch \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8<\/p>\n<p>Per His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, the rematch will go down December 21 \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A8HRMtjMvb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/A8HRMtjMvb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boxing on TNT Sports (@boxingontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boxingontnt\/status\/1795762724607078698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian became the undisputed heavyweight champ when he defeated his English opponent via a split decision win in their 1<sup>st<\/sup> highly anticipated bout at the beginning of May. One judge gave Tyson the victory as his decision was labeled scandalous by experts.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> unified heavyweight champ since Lennox Lewis beat Evander Holyfield in a 1999 rematch in Las Vegas. At the same time, it was Gypsy King\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> loss of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 boxers had inked a 2-fight contract that featured \u00a0a rematch on October 12<sup>th<\/sup>, but the two sides reached an agreement for the bout to happen at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Alalshikh confirmed on social media that Riyadh would welcome the rematch and that the world could prepare to watch another historical clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavyweight rematch between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will be on December 21st in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh revealed today. Oleksandr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483646,"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":"Tyson and Oleksandr's rematch is scheduled for December 21st.","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\/483645"}],"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=483645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483647,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483645\/revisions\/483647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483645"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483645"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}