{"id":424217,"date":"2026-01-21T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:19:07","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-makes-contact-with-dana-white-there-is-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424217\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk makes contact with Dana White \u2014 \u2018There is dialogue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Like undefeated heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist, Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere is contact, there is dialogue, and interest exists,\u201d Team Usyk director, Sergey Lapin, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talksportbet.com\/en-gb\/casino\/category\/slots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TalkSPORT Bet Slot Site<\/a>. \u201cDetails aren\u2019t for the public right now. Let\u2019s say a few doors are open and if format, numbers, and timing align, the market could see a move nobody expects. Everyone has seen what [White] did. He turned old MMA into a global UFC machine. His real power is packaging not just a fight, but an event. If he gets involved, the scale and attention immediately become different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe\u2019re moving calmly and professionally,\u201d Lapin added. \u201cWhen everything is agreed, it will be announced officially. We are only considering the biggest and most logical options, fights that truly create an event, not just another name. There are several top heavyweights in the conversation, but the shortlist changes depending on belts, timing, dates, and broadcast structures. Our position is simple: if it\u2019s a fight, it has to be a big one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like undefeated heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist, Oleksandr Usyk. \u201cThere is contact, there is dialogue, and interest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,33601,82,75400],"class_list":["post-424217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424217","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=424217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}