{"id":565083,"date":"2026-03-26T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565083\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:44:10","slug":"anthony-joshua-oleksandr-usyk-bring-out-the-best-in-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565083\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua, Oleksandr Usyk bring out the best in each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">It\u2019s different with Usyk and Joshua, however. Two fighters who entered their two-fight, 24-round, rivalry with complete respect for each other now have only more. Joshua, after seeing a proposed bout with Fury collapse in 2021, pluckily accepted the challenge from Usyk, unsuspecting of the boxing lesson he would endure over 12 rounds. There would be a return, one more competitive, but the Ukrainian would again prove superior over the championship distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s different with Usyk and Joshua, however. Two fighters who entered their two-fight, 24-round, rivalry with complete respect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[8075,64,63,802,1920,6653,168178,7704,85],"class_list":["post-565083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-matt-christie","tag-oleksandr-usyk","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565083","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=565083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}