{"id":554061,"date":"2026-03-22T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554061\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:20:12","slug":"viktor-jurk-is-a-heavyweight-sparring-star-but-seeks-more-for-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554061\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Jurk is a heavyweight sparring star \u2013 but seeks more for himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cBefore I sparred Usyk, I knew he\u2019s good. But when you step in the ring and see him fighting with you, you understand how good he is,\u201d Jurk said. \u201cHe\u2019s not about hitting hard or, when you think about Joshua, you say, or he\u2019s a big puncher with the right hand. You wouldn\u2019t say that about Usyk. But Usyk is very technical and tactical. He\u2019s like a cowboy, he\u2019s looking at you, see the targets and it just goes with six-, seven-punch combinations, and they\u2019re very precise. He\u2019s very accurate.\u00a0 I\u2019ll say his experience is quite big, like he has a big amateur background. He has like nearly 400 amateur fights. Then he fought in the pros, almost all the best guys of the world in every weight class [cruiserweight and heavyweight]. When you spar Usyk, I would say he\u2019s like a master. You are a student, and he is a master. Sometimes you\u2019re good, but he\u2019s better. You have a good idea how to go the rounds with him, but he\u2019s better the next day or he analyzes you and says, \u2018OK, next day I\u2019ll give you this work.\u2019 You give him good work, he gives you better work. This is Usyk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBefore I sparred Usyk, I knew he\u2019s good. But when you step in the ring and see him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[86450,5276,703,49,48,58616,111492,27930,86589,104185,5384,82,214909],"class_list":["post-554061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-agit-kabayel","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-david-adeleye","tag-derek-chisora","tag-dillian-whyte","tag-frazer-clarke","tag-jeamie-tkv","tag-oleksandr-usyk","tag-sports","tag-viktor-jurk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554061","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=554061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}