{"id":814793,"date":"2026-07-21T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814793\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:28:13","slug":"agit-kabayel-linked-with-new-heavyweight-champion-to-win-another-of-usyks-old-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814793\/","title":{"rendered":"Agit Kabayel linked with new heavyweight champion to win another of Usyk’s old titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agit Kabayel<\/a> could be about to land an opportunity to add another world title to his collection.<\/p>\n

The German star has been a slow-burner in the heavyweight division, having first come to prominence back in 2017 when he retained his European heavyweight title against Derek Chisora.<\/p>\n

After several years treading water, he finally kicked on over the last 18 months with a number of standout wins, claiming stoppage victories over Arslanbek Makhmudov, Frank Sanchez and Zhilei Zhang, the latter of those earning him the WBC interim title.<\/p>\n

After heavyweight king Oleksandr Usyk vacated his belts last month<\/a>, Kabayel was elevated to full champion, with the unbeaten star now looking to compete in just his second fight since February 2025.<\/p>\n

His last outing came back in January when he dispatched of Damian Knyba inside three rounds, but a unification battle could now be on the horizion for Kabayel, after The Ring reported<\/a> that there is talk of a showdown with WBA champion Murat Gassiev.<\/p>\n

\u201cA heavyweight unification bout between WBC champ Agit Kabayel and WBA champ Murat Gassiev is being explored for later this year, Kabayel\u2019s promoter, Spencer Brown told The Ring\u2019s @MikeCoppinger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gassiev is another who has benefitted from Usyk\u2019s decision to relinquish the belts, after initially winning the WBA (Regular) title in December with a stoppage win over Kubrat Pulev.<\/a><\/p>\n

He now finds himself in sole possession of the full WBA crown, making a defence of that belt with a sixth round stoppage over Peter Kadiru in July, and a win over Kabayel would see him become a two-weight unified world champion after his success at cruiserweight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agit Kabayel could be about to land an opportunity to add another world title to his collection. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-814793","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\/814793","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=814793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}