{"id":765655,"date":"2026-06-27T23:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765655\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:04:17","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-announces-hes-vacating-all-3-titles-in-shocking-career-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765655\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk announces he\u2019s vacating all 3 titles in shocking career update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Oleksandr Usyk is no longer carrying heavyweight championship gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The now former unified champion announced on social media Friday that he has made the decision to vacate all three of his world titles \u2014 WBA, IBF and WBC heavyweight belts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt\u2019s a good time to say that I want to vacate all the belts I currently hold,\u201d Usyk said. \u201cI want to make them available so the guys who are next in line can fight for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Usyk, a former undisputed champion in two different weight classes, has had an incredible run at heavyweight following his successful cruiserweight career. Since bumping up to his current class, Usyk holds multiple wins over Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Daniel Dubois \u2014 knocking out the latter in both victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In his most recent bout, Usyk came away with a controversial stoppage win over former GLORY heavyweight champ Rico Verhoeven in May in a matchup that was wildly more competitive than anyone expected it to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Along with his announcement to vacate the belts, Usyk also revealed he\u2019s not retiring from the sport of boxing \u2014 at least, not yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cFriends, I\u2019m leaving the belts, but I\u2019m not leaving the sport because I still have my last dance,\u201d Usyk explained. \u201cI want to thank everyone. I have great respect for all organizations. I want to thank everyone and say there\u2019s more to come. Glory to God for everything. Glory to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk is no longer carrying heavyweight championship gold. The now former unified champion announced on social media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82],"class_list":["post-765655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765655","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=765655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}