{"id":116767,"date":"2025-09-05T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116767\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:55:11","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-targeting-unlikely-opponent-for-final-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116767\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk Targeting Unlikely Opponent For Final Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> is edging towards the end of what has been a remarkable career in boxing.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian southpaw is 38-years-old and in just 24 professional fights has pretty much completed the sport. After turning over following his Olympic gold medal, he cleaned out the cruiserweight division to become undisputed, then moved up to heavyweight.<\/p>\n

Usyk soon settled in with a win over Derek Chisora, and has since gone on an unbelievable run of wins, with two each over Anthony Joshua<\/a>, Daniel Dubois<\/a> and Tyson Fury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That has made him an unprecedented two-time undisputed heavyweight champion in the four-belt era, and he has never been down legitimately, nor ever really looked hurt.<\/p>\n

Usyk has admitted he has only one or two fights left, and has so far shown little interest in one of those being his WBO mandatory challenger, Joseph Parker.<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead, speaking to Fruity King<\/a>, Director of Team Usyk, Sergey Lapin, said that the champ might make a debut in MMA next year and take on a much-talked-about American.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cJake Paul and his team are playing boxing right now. Then we\u2019ll see. I think next year we might play with them in MMA.\u201d<\/p>\n

YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul has fought and beaten the likes of Mike Tyson<\/a> and Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Jr. with one loss against Tommy Fury on his way to 12 wins from 13 fights in the squared circle.<\/p>\n

Next up he takes on Gervonta Davis<\/a> in November, but he has long chased a fight with Usyk, and it seems as though he could now get his man in the most unlikely of settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk is edging towards the end of what has been a remarkable career in boxing. The Ukrainian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-116767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}