{"id":776558,"date":"2026-07-02T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:48:08","slug":"back-injury-forces-tony-yoka-withdrawal-from-murat-gassiev-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776558\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Injury forces Tony Yoka withdrawal from Murat Gassiev challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A back injury has reportedly forced Tony Yoka to withdraw from his scheduled Saturday, July 11, title challenge against WBA heavyweight champion Murat Gassiev at the VTB Arena in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The injury and withdrawal, first reported on by boxing writer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanRafael1\/status\/2072729232363433996?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dan Rafael<\/a>, spoil Yoka\u2019s attempt to become France\u2019s first-ever professional heavyweight world champion. Yoka, (15-3, 12 KOs), was already the country\u2019s first super heavyweight gold medalist, a distinction he won at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, ironically, against British boxer Joe Joyce, who is to appear in the night\u2019s co-featured event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A back injury has reportedly forced Tony Yoka to withdraw from his scheduled Saturday, July 11, title challenge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,111760,126018,82,23373],"class_list":["post-776558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-joe-joyce","tag-murat-gassiev","tag-sports","tag-tony-yoka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776558","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=776558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}