{"id":325346,"date":"2025-12-04T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325346\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:26:08","slug":"usyk-next-fight-oleksandr-usyk-can-defend-wbc-title-against-deontay-wilder-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325346\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk next fight: Oleksandr Usyk can defend WBC title against Deontay Wilder next"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usyk last fought in July when he stopped Londoner Daniel Dubois<\/a> in round five to become two-time undisputed heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

But in November, the 38-year-old decided to relinquish his WBO title<\/a>, elevating Britain’s Fabio Wardley to heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

At the time, Usyk informed the WBO he would not be proceeding with a mandatory title defence against Wardley.<\/p>\n

Usyk remains the WBA, IBF and WBC heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

The WBC also confirmed that a potential fight between British boxers Lawrence Okolie and Moses Itauma would determine the next mandatory challenger for the WBC belt.<\/p>\n

Both fighters already have bouts scheduled, with Itauma fighting Jermaine Franklin on 24 January in Manchester and Okolie boxing in Nigeria later this month against a yet-to-be announced opponent.<\/p>\n

Several other Britons could also put themselves into world title contention next year, with a potential bout between Joshua Buatsi and Ben Whittaker expected to determine the next mandatory challenger at light heavyweight.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Conor Benn was also named the number one challenger<\/a> for Mario Barrios’ WBC welterweight world title.<\/p>\n

The WBC has stripped Terrence Crawford of his super-middleweight belt<\/a>, saying the American hasn’t paid his past two sanctioning fees and calling it a “slap in the face”.<\/p>\n

Crawford remains the WBA ‘Super’, WBO and IBF super-middleweight champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usyk last fought in July when he stopped Londoner Daniel Dubois in round five to become two-time undisputed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-325346","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\/325346","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=325346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}