{"id":403037,"date":"2026-01-10T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403037\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:05:09","slug":"kabayel-and-knyba-heavy-weight-and-weighty-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403037\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabayel and Knyba- heavy weight and weighty responsibility\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabayel and Knyba- heavy weight and weighty responsibility\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Agit Kabayel will defend the WBC interim heavyweight title this Saturday, marking his first title defense on German soil.<\/p>\n<p>Agit Kabayel weighed in at 240.3 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Damian Knyba weighed in at 257.9 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Agit Kabayel<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In 2014, the German fighter challenged Gbenga Olokun for the WBC Mediterranean heavyweight title, winning the bout by split decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0After capturing and defending two EBU titles, Kabayel claimed the WBC Continental Americas heavyweight title in 2024 by defeating Frank S\u00e1nchez. Nearly a year later, in February 2025, he scored a knockout victory over Chinese heavyweight Zhilei Zhang.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Agit Kabayel remains undefeated with a record of 26 wins, including 18 by knockout.<\/p>\n<p>Damien Knyba<\/p>\n<p>The Polish heavyweight made his professional debut in 2021<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This will be the first title fight of his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Knyba enters the bout undefeated with a record of 17 wins, 11 of them by knockout.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_173608\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"173608\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764343693_289_ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kabayel and Knyba- heavy weight and weighty responsibility\u00a0 Agit Kabayel will defend the WBC interim heavyweight title this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-403037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403037","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=403037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}