{"id":130187,"date":"2025-09-09T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130187\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:25:07","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-to-promote-foundation-in-charity-football-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130187\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk to promote foundation in charity football match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Oleksandr Usyk beat Daniel Dubois with a knockout in Round 5 in July.\u00a0Bradley Collyer\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Undisputed heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk will play in a charity football match in Portugal on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The match, held at Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade in Lisbon, will feature ex-Premier League stars including Edwin van der Sar, Petr Cech, John Terry, and Michael Owen.<\/p>\n<p>Carles Puyol, Alessandro Del Piero, Henrik Larsson, Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Kaka are also set to play in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk will be promoting the Usyk Foundation, his charity which helps communities in Ukraine as well as the Ukrainian army.<\/p>\n<p>A source told ESPN Usyk plans to play at least the first 10 minutes of the match, but will be closely monitored as he returns to full fitness following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45777455\/usyk-knocks-dubois-become-undisputed-heavyweight-champion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">win over Daniel Dubois in July.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old has been given a 90-day medical extension by the WBO after being ordered to fight interim champion Joseph Parker following the win over Dubois.<\/p>\n<p>It means Usyk has more time to decide his next move.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk submitted medical evidence to the WBO outlining his inability to immediately return to training and was granted the extension earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>He will now fight either Parker or Fabio Wardley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46175781\/parker-wardley-set-heavyweight-fight-oct-25-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who fight in London on Oct. 25<\/a>, or vacate the WBO title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk beat Daniel Dubois with a knockout in Round 5 in July.\u00a0Bradley Collyer\/PA Images via Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-130187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}