{"id":551715,"date":"2026-04-26T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:03:09","slug":"jarrell-miller-targets-long-awaited-heavyweight-fight-after-pero-win-lets-make-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551715\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarrell Miller targets long awaited heavyweight fight after Pero win: “Let’s make it happen”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jarrell Miller beat Lenier Pero this weekend in Las Vega to keep his dreams of a world champion alive, though he may first look to settle a long-running feud outside of the title picture<\/p>\n

The controversial American heavyweight beat Olympian Pero over the distance<\/a>, throwing an incredible amount of punches on his way to a clear unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n

Though the final eliminator win puts him well in line for a shot at champion Oleksandr Usyk, post-fight Miller recognised the appeal of an all-American dust-up with Deontay Wilder.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, \u2018Big Baby\u2019 called the fight on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if the fans call him out enough, they\u2019re gonna want to make that fight happen. Everybody\u2019s saying Deontay\u2019s gonna beat me up, knock me out \u2013 there\u2019s only one way to find out. He\u2019s been knocked out plenty of times, I haven\u2019t. Let\u2019s make the fight happen. We\u2019re the two top American heavyweights. We both can make people tune in. Me and my slick talking, him and his weird, dramatic speeches and entrances\u2026 I think it\u2019d be entertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Miller unlikely to be on Usyk\u2019s radar, as the Ukrainian only has a limited number of fights left before retirement<\/a>, Wilder presents an opportunity to settle a beef \u2013 including big sparring claims and personal grievances \u2013 that has been brewing for years.<\/p>\n

Wilder revived his career earlier this year with a hard fought win over Derek Chisora, and will likely miss out on an opportunity to fight Anthony Joshua as the Brit focuses on a warm-up fight before facing Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarrell Miller beat Lenier Pero this weekend in Las Vega to keep his dreams of a world champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-551715","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\/551715","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=551715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}