{"id":800056,"date":"2026-07-13T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800056\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:54:10","slug":"despite-faceoff-murat-gassiev-prefers-title-unification-to-derek-chisora-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800056\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite faceoff, Murat Gassiev prefers title unification to Derek Chisora showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though WBA heavyweight belt holder Murat Gassiev and longtime UK-based heavyweight contender Derek Chisora went face-to-face in the ring after Gassiev&#8217;s successful defense against Peter Kadiru in Moscow on Saturday, representatives for Team Gassiev made it clear to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/Phil%20Jay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Jay of World Boxing News<\/a> that title unification is their priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The charismatic Chisora, 36-14 (23 KOs), climbed through the ropes to face off with Gassiev, 34-2 (27 KOs), after his sixth-round stoppage of Peter Kadiru over the weekend, raising speculation Chisora may be next in line for a shot at the belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though WBA heavyweight belt holder Murat Gassiev and longtime UK-based heavyweight contender Derek Chisora went face-to-face in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,111492,126018,280640,82],"class_list":["post-800056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-derek-chisora","tag-murat-gassiev","tag-peter-kadiru","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800056","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=800056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}