{"id":494474,"date":"2025-07-19T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=494474"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:34:16","slug":"usyk-defeats-dubois-to-become-undisputed-heavyweight-champ","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usyk-defeats-dubois-to-become-undisputed-heavyweight-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk defeats Dubois to become undisputed heavyweight champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk left no doubt who is the best in the world and knocked out Daniel Dubois in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> round to become undisputed world heavyweight champ once again.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr became the 1<sup>st<\/sup> men&#8217;s boxer to become an undisputed champion for a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time, after previous reigns at cruiserweight (2018) and heavyweight (2024), as he knocked out Daniel in front of almost 100,000 at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian won Dubois&#8217; IBF title, to add to his WBC, WBA, and WBO belts, in his 5<sup>th<\/sup> title defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Oleksandr Usyk defeats Daniel Dubois via KO and is once again the undisputed heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking at one of the greatest boxers of our modern era:<\/p>\n<p>24-0<br \/>Undisputed cruiserweight champion<br \/>Two-time undisputed heavyweight champion<br \/>Defeated Tyson Fury x2<br \/>Defeated\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rdOgf5Oj89\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rdOgf5Oj89<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Home_of_Fight\/status\/1946686457139339673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Usyk has already defeated both Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury twice, and nobody can doubt that he is the best heavyweight of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Oleksandr shared that he doesn\u2019t know who will be his next opponent as he doesn\u2019t care about his name and is ready to face anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Fury claimed recently that he is ready to fight again next spring and that he wants to fight Oleksandr Usyk, as the last time that the 2 met was at the end of 2024, when the Ukrainian won the bout on points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk left no doubt who is the best in the world and knocked out Daniel Dubois in the 5th round to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":494475,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21105,17309],"news_category":[20045,16715],"gn_keywords":[21106,18145],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Ukrainian knocked out his British opponent.","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\/494474"}],"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=494474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494478,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494474\/revisions\/494478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494474"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=494474"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=494474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}