{"id":704689,"date":"2026-05-30T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704689\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:13:14","slug":"agit-kabayel-expects-oleksandr-usyk-to-vacate-wbc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704689\/","title":{"rendered":"Agit Kabayel Expects Oleksandr Usyk To Vacate WBC Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I think Oleksandr will vacate. I think Frank is talking about [the fight] with Usyk\u2019s team, and we will wait one week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have one week to see if Usyk says anything, after that we will see what [happens].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut my opinion is that Usyk will not want to make the fight for me. I want to fight with Usyk,\u201d said Kabayel to <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talkSPORT Boxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kabayel says he does not believe Usyk will move forward with the mandatory defense despite pressure from his team and promoter Frank Warren, who has repeatedly pushed for the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The unbeaten German strengthened his position as mandatory challenger with his knockout win over Zhilei Zhang last year. He later returned home for a headline event in Germany and has continued to campaign for a shot at the full WBC title.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk, 39, retained his WBC, WBA, and IBF belts when he stopped Verhoeven in the 11th round in Egypt. The victory kept him at the top of the heavyweight division, but questions remain about which direction he will take next.<\/p>\n<p>If Usyk vacates, Kabayel would move into position to fight for the vacant WBC heavyweight title. If he keeps the belt, negotiations for a mandatory defense could become the focus in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTo be honest, I think Oleksandr will vacate. I think Frank is talking about [the fight] with Usyk\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-704689","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\/704689","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=704689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}