WBC Interim heavyweight champion,\u00a0Agit Kabayel<\/a>.<\/p>\nFury was quoted saying, “F— that, f— fighting him. Agit’s taking over now, it’s takeover time.”<\/p>\n
Agit Kabayel’s last three fights has seen him defeat unbeaten Russian Arslanbek Makhmudov, undefeated American Frank Sanchez, and Chinese powerhouse Zhilei Zhang, all by knockout.<\/p>\n
As the WBC Interim champion, he is in line for a shot at the undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk soon.<\/p>\n
Who is Agit Kabayel?<\/p>\n
Born 23 September 1992 in Leverkusen, Germany, Agit is currently 32-years-old.<\/p>\n
His parents are of Kurdish origin, from Pazarcik, Turkey.<\/p>\n
His cousin, KC Rebell, is a famous rapper with four number one albums.<\/p>\n
Kabayel’s professional debut was way back in June 2011, so he has been a pro for over 14 years now.<\/p>\n
He won his first title in 2014 when he edged Olympian Gbenga Oloukun via split decision to win the WBC Mediterranean heavyweight title.<\/p>\n
He went on to win European Union, European, WBA Continental, WBA Inter-Continental NABF, WBC Continental Americas, WBO-NABO and WBC Interim heavyweight titles.<\/p>\n
He has many notable scalps against Derek Chisora, Andriy Rudenko, Kevin Johnson, Arslanbek Makhmudov, Frank Sanchez, Zhilei Zhang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury picked who he believes will be the future of heavyweight boxing. Fury is currently enjoying some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-17883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}