{"id":562604,"date":"2026-05-02T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562604\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:32:10","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-helping-anthony-joshua-before-tyson-fury-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562604\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk helping Anthony Joshua before Tyson Fury meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usyk does not foresee Joshua encountering any issues against Prenga in what he calls “official sparring”, but has been advising him on how to overcome Fury.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian is preparing to defend his WBC title against Rico Verhoeven on 23 May in Egypt and will welcome Joshua into his camp over the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

“We will help him in training,” Usyk said.<\/p>\n

“We speak about strategy, boxing skills and psychology. We speak about fights, our fights, and I say ‘champ, come on, don’t stop’.”<\/p>\n

Joshua’s last fight was a routine victory against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in December, but he has taken some time away from the sport to recover mentally and physically after being a passenger in a fatal car crash<\/a> later that month that killed two of his friends.<\/p>\n

Usyk said he could empathise with Joshua because he has lost friends during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine following the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n

“I said ‘listen, God gave you one more chance. Take this chance and don’t stop or cry. This is life, pray every day and god will help you. Whatever you need I will help,” Usyk said.<\/p>\n

“It’s hard but I think my friends now are like angels.<\/p>\n

“Every day I pray for these guys – this is life. I don’t know what waits for me and my team tomorrow, but I continue to work, pray and help.<\/p>\n

“If God gives you a gift every day then appreciate it. It’s hard but you must continue to live because God gives you that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usyk does not foresee Joshua encountering any issues against Prenga in what he calls “official sparring”, but has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562604","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\/562604","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=562604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}