Especially considering how he obtained the belt in the first place.<\/p>\n
When Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> vacated his IBF, WBA and WBC heavyweight titles in June, Gassiev<\/a>, who won the WBA secondary crown against Kubrat Pulev<\/a> in December 2025, was elevated to full titleholder.Gassiev\u2019s status as the WBA\u2019s lone champion ended Thursday, however, as the sanctioning body announced it will place its \u201csuper\u201d title on the line for Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua on December 11 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales<\/a>.Miller<\/a>, who is ranked No. 1 by the WBA, is still hoping to land a fight against Gassiev.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s an email champion,\u201d Miller told The Ring. \u201cI’m a take that title off his hands real soon.\u201d<\/p>\n The 32-year-old champion from Vladikavkaz, Russia, has acknowledged in the past that talks between his camp and Miller\u2019s are ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In terms of momentum, Gassiev (34-2, 27 KOs) seemingly has the edge. Since losing to Otto Wallin by split decision in September 2023, The Ring\u2019s ninth-ranked heavyweight<\/a> has won four straight fights, all by stoppage.Those wins haven\u2019t impressed Brooklyn\u2019s Miller, who\u2019s on a two-fight win streak of his own, the latest coming against Lenier Pero via unanimous decision April 25 in Las Vegas<\/a>. Miller sees Gassiev\u2019s past as one of the main reasons why he\u2019ll beat him.<\/p>\n Gassiev started his career as a cruiserweight in 2011. He won the IBF and WBA titles in that division before losing those straps to Usyk in a four-belt unification bout in 2018. <\/p>\n What\u2019s also eye-catching to Miller is Gassiev\u2019s level of opposition since moving up in 2020. He has beaten Kem Ljungquist, Jeremiah Milton, Pulev, and Peter Kadiru.<\/p>\n The combination of Gassiev once campaigning in a lower weight class, along with his relatively thin heavyweight resume, has Miller (28-1-2, 22 KOs) believing that if they do fight he\u2019ll take care of business with relative ease.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s nothing that I have to worry about with him,\u201d Miller said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a real heavyweight. To me, he\u2019s still a cruiserweight. He\u2019s also never been in there with a guy like me. I\u2019m a big guy and my gas tank is tremendous. I’m a whoop his ass. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m not overlooking the guy. I don\u2019t overlook any fighter. But I just know when I\u2019m at my best, these guys can\u2019t beat me, Gassiev included.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Especially considering how he obtained the belt in the first place. When Oleksandr Usyk vacated his IBF, WBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,1000,85,2974],"class_list":["post-908703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-interview","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908703","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=908703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}