{"id":317073,"date":"2025-11-30T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/317073\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:47:11","slug":"clarke-vs-tkv-what-next-for-heavyweight-division-after-tkv-win-with-anthony-joshua-tyson-fury-itauma-futures-analysed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/317073\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke vs TKV: What next for heavyweight division after TKV win with Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury &#038; Itauma futures analysed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Usyk &#8211; an all-time great at 38 &#8211; still holds the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, but is running out of credible challengers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has beaten Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois &#8211; all twice. And he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cjek0jl4znvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled out facing Itauma<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IBF has ordered a final eliminator between American Richard Torrez Jr (14-0) and Cuba&#8217;s Frank Sanchez (25-0-1). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several heavyweights, including Dubois and Itauma, have turned down Sanchez in favour of other routes, but if Torrez accepts, the winner could be well-placed for a shot at Usyk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The one name purists believe could seriously test the champion is Germany&#8217;s Agit Kabayel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Undefeated in 26 with 18 stoppages, Kabayel is the WBC &#8216;interim&#8217; champion and faces Damian Knyba on 10 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After an impressive run of five stoppage wins &#8211; including against Zhilei Zhang and Sanchez &#8211; he is arguably the most deserving of a title shot outside of Wardley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usyk &#8211; an all-time great at 38 &#8211; still holds the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, but is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-317073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317073","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=317073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}