{"id":777607,"date":"2026-07-04T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777607\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:47:14","slug":"deontay-wilder-open-to-oleksandr-usyk-fight-if-terms-align","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777607\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder open to Oleksandr Usyk fight if terms align"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/deontay-wilder\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deontay Wilder<\/a> would accept a fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/oleksandr-usyk\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> under the right financial terms, according to his co-manager Shelly Finkel.<\/p>\n<p>Finkel told Sky Sports that the former WBC <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/heavyweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavyweight<\/a> champion sees value in facing the Ukrainian, who recently gave up his WBC, IBF and WBA belts to escape mandatory obligations. &#8220;If the terms were right, Deontay would welcome the opportunity to fight Usyk,&#8221; Finkel said. &#8220;Usyk is a great champion and it would be an honour to fight him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why Wilder wants the Usyk fight<\/p>\n<p>Wilder previously told Sky Sports that Usyk remains critical to his legacy plans. &#8220;He&#8217;s one of the best in the era. I do need him to accomplish what I need to accomplish,&#8221; Wilder said. The American stressed his confidence the bout would materialize. &#8220;As long as I have the confidence to do what I have to do, it will happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Usyk&#8217;s promotional CEO Sergey Lapin suggested the former undisputed champion is unlikely to revisit a trilogy with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/tyson-fury\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a>, having already beaten the Englishman twice. That leaves Wilder as one of the marquee <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/heavyweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavyweight<\/a> names still on Usyk&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n<p>A Wilder-Usyk clash would likely land in the United States, though Lapin mentioned Ukraine as Usyk&#8217;s dream venue if security conditions ever permit a homecoming fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13560261\/deontay-wilder-would-welcome-fight-against-oleksandr-usyk-says-co-manager\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">skysports.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder would accept a fight against Oleksandr Usyk under the right financial terms, according to his co-manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-777607","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\/777607","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=777607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}