{"id":480807,"date":"2026-03-17T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480807\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:41:07","slug":"usyks-team-reveal-the-real-reason-they-arent-fighting-deontay-wilder-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480807\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk’s team reveal the real reason they aren’t fighting Deontay Wilder next"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago, a showdown between Oleksandr Usyk and Deontay Wilder seemed imminent. However, Usyk has since moved on from those plans, and his team has now revealed why the fight was abandoned.<\/p>\n

Usyk publicly stated his intentions to take on \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019<\/a>, keen to add the name of a another long-standing world champion to his impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9, even despite the decline of Wilder \u2013 who has won just twice since 2019.<\/p>\n

However, Wilder is instead set to take on Derek Chisora<\/a> next month, whilst the Ukrainian has moved onto an unexpected clash with kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven, that being the first fight of a three-bout plan that does not involve Wilder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Casinostugan<\/a>, Usyk\u2019s manager Sergey Lapin confirmed that plans were in place for his fighter to compete in the United States for the first time since his heavyweight debut, but that \u2018longer than expected\u2019 negotiations was the reason Wilder turned his attention to Chisora.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe negotiations for \u2018Wilder vs Usyk\u2019 took too long \u2013 they chose Chisora instead. We did discuss the possibility of a fight with Wilder, and initially the plan was that the fight could take place in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the negotiations took longer than expected, and Wilder eventually reached an agreement to fight Chisora. This sometimes happens in boxing \u2014 while negotiations are ongoing, different opportunities appear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilder-Chisora takes place on Saturday, April 4, at the O2 Arena<\/a>, whilst Usyk-Verhoeven heads to The Pyramids of Giza on Saturday, May 23, with the WBC heavyweight crown at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of months ago, a showdown between Oleksandr Usyk and Deontay Wilder seemed imminent. However, Usyk has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480807","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=480807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}