{"id":500431,"date":"2026-03-28T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:16:42","slug":"anthony-joshua-and-oleksandr-usyk-bring-out-the-best-in-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500431\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk bring out the best in each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">It\u2019s different with Usyk and Joshua, however. Two fighters who entered their two-fight, 24-round, rivalry with complete respect for each other now have only more. Joshua, after seeing a proposed bout with Fury collapse in 2021, pluckily accepted the challenge from Usyk, unsuspecting of the boxing lesson he would endure over 12 rounds. There would be a return, one more competitive, but the Ukrainian would again prove superior over the championship distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s different with Usyk and Joshua, however. Two fighters who entered their two-fight, 24-round, rivalry with complete respect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,2560,6102,10078,111082,4036,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-500431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-boxingscene","12":"tag-matt-christie","13":"tag-oleksandr-usyk","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500431","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=500431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}