{"id":798591,"date":"2026-07-14T00:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798591\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:07:11","slug":"despite-faceoff-murat-gassiev-prefers-title-unification-to-derek-chisora-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798591\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite faceoff, Murat Gassiev prefers title unification to Derek Chisora showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though WBA heavyweight belt holder Murat Gassiev and longtime UK-based heavyweight contender Derek Chisora went face-to-face in the ring after Gassiev&#8217;s successful defense against Peter Kadiru in Moscow on Saturday, representatives for Team Gassiev made it clear to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldboxingnews.com\/gassiev-team-looks-beyond-chisora-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phil Jay of World Boxing News <\/a>that title unification is their priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The charismatic Chisora, 36-14 (23 KOs), climbed through the ropes to face off with Gassiev, 34-2 (27 KOs), after the Russian&#8217;s sixth-round stoppage of Peter Kadiru over the weekend, raising speculation Chisora may be next in line for a shot at the belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though WBA heavyweight belt holder Murat Gassiev and longtime UK-based heavyweight contender Derek Chisora went face-to-face in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,137158,189474,375082,85],"class_list":["post-798591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-derek-chisora","tag-murat-gassiev","tag-peter-kadiru","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798591","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=798591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}