{"id":723709,"date":"2026-06-08T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723709\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:34:10","slug":"joe-joyce-briton-set-for-return-against-undefeated-artem-suslenkov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723709\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Joyce: Briton set for return against undefeated Artem Suslenkov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Joe Joyce will return to the ring for the first time in more than a year when he challenges undefeated Russian heavyweight Artem Suslenkov for the WBA Continental title in Moscow on 11 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joyce, 40, has been out of action since he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/czd3llvqqevo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost to Filip Hrgovic by unanimous decision<\/a> for the vacant WBO international heavyweight title in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2016 Olympic silver medallist has lost four of his past five fights, with his last victory coming against Kash Ali in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the Hrgovic defeat, Joyce&#8217;s promoter Frank Warren said he needed to have a &#8220;real serious think about the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But despite the setbacks, Joyce &#8211; who has a professional record of 16 wins and four losses &#8211; says he has spent the past 12 months &#8220;preparing, training and wanting to be back in the ring&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited for the opportunity to travel to Russia and challenge for the WBA Continental heavyweight title on July 11,&#8221; added Joyce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thank you to IBA Pro for the opportunity. My team and I are locked in and Moscow should get ready for a big performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Joe Joyce will return to the ring for the first time in more than a year when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-723709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723709","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=723709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}