{"id":318928,"date":"2025-12-01T18:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318928\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:48:20","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-expresses-desire-to-fight-deontay-wilder-who-would-be-open-to-world-title-clash-in-2026-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318928\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk expresses desire to fight Deontay Wilder who would be open to world title clash in 2026 | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk wants to defend his world heavyweight titles against Deontay Wilder, who has welcomed a fight against the unified world champion.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian has broken his silence about his next career move, confirming that he wants to put his WBC, WBA and IBF belts on the line against Wilder.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk&#8217;s second reign as undisputed champion ended last week after he vacated his WBO belt following his stoppage of Daniel Dubois in their July rematch at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the WBC convention in Thailand, Usyk told Boxing King Media: &#8220;I want to fight Deontay Wilder. I think it&#8217;s interesting.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skysports-deontay-wilder-boxing_6574136.jpg\"   alt=\"Is it time for Deontay Wilder to retire?\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Wilder is a former WBC heavyweight champion<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a world champion guy, this is a very famous guy, this is a strong guy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is one of the great heavyweights of the last 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wilder, who returned to the ring with a stoppage of Tyrrell Anthony Herndon in June, would be open to a fight against Usyk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Usyk is a great champion,&#8221; Wilder&#8217;s co-manager Shelly Finkel told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have plans for next year and we&#8217;d like Oleksandr Usyk to be part of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we receive the right offer, we would be open to that fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk wants to defend his world heavyweight titles against Deontay Wilder, who has welcomed a fight against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-318928","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\/318928","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=318928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}