{"id":879515,"date":"2026-09-01T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879515\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:46:09","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-sets-sights-on-one-man-for-final-fight-with-date-and-location-lined-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879515\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk sets sights on one man for final fight with date and location lined up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The professional career of Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> is approaching its final chapter, and the targeted opponent and date for his finale has been revealed.<\/p>\n

Usyk almost suffered a shock defeat when defending his heavyweight crown against Dutch kickboxer Rico Verhoeven<\/a> at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt back in May, before rallying to a much-needed round 11 stoppage \u2013 albeit a controversial one.<\/p>\n

During the aftermath, the reality that Father Time may have caught up with the 39-year-old seemed to convince him that he needed to preserve his legacy and hang up the gloves; hoping to do so with his undefeated record intact.<\/p>\n

Although, despite the desire to remain unbeaten, the Ukrainian has been linked to a showdown with former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, who has underwhelmed in recent fights but remains heralded as one of the most fearsome knockout artists in boxing history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, Usyk\u2019s advisor Serhii Lapin has confirmed the truth of those reports and informed The Ring\u2019s Mike Coppinger that a fight with Wilder is being planned for a United States card next March, as per Inside Ring Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRing Magazine heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is targeting a fight with Deontay Wilder in March 2027 in the United States, Usyk\u2019s advisor, Serhii Lapin told The Ring\u2019s @MikeCoppinger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usyk has not fought stateside since his heavyweight debut against Chazz Witherspoon in 2019, but the veteran has previously expressed his desire to fight in New York<\/a>; which must now be considered as the frontrunner to host \u2018The Last Dance\u2019 of the two-division undisputed world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The professional career of Oleksandr Usyk is approaching its final chapter, and the targeted opponent and date for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-879515","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\/879515","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=879515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}