{"id":603869,"date":"2026-04-14T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603869\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:40:08","slug":"live-oleksandr-usyk-vs-rico-verhoeven-kickoff-press-conference-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603869\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven kickoff press conference video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Watch their kickoff press conference video LIVE in the embedded video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI spent twelve years as the undisputed heavyweight kickboxing champion and accomplished everything I set out to accomplish,\u201d the 36 year-old Verhoeven said. \u201cBut staying at the top for that long didn\u2019t take away from the hunger, it strengthened it. Usyk is the undisputed in boxing. That\u2019s the kind of challenge that motivated me. Undisputed versus undisputed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI truly respect people who reach the very top in their sport,\u201d the 39 year-old Usyk added. \u201cRico is one of them. A powerful athlete and a great champion. Being a champion isn\u2019t just about belts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch their kickoff press conference video LIVE in the embedded video above. \u201cI spent twelve years as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-603869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-boxing-news-results","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603869","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=603869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}