The WBC, however, is sticking to its original plan and has since enforced Kabayel\u2019s position,<\/a> as recently confirmed by President Mauricio Sulaiman and now Kabayel himself, who took to social media to announce the beginning of the 30-day negotiation period.<\/p>\n\u201cWords can\u2019t describe what this moment means to me. Now it\u2019s up to Usyk. He has 30 days to accept. If he doesn\u2019t, I become the full WBC world champion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether or not Usyk \u2013 who is also in possession of the WBA and IBF titles \u2013 enters into talks remains to be seen, with the possibility of vacating the WBC belt a very real one.<\/p>\n
While he has not ruled out facing Kabayel, and even said in the ring post-Verhoeven fight that he would, the Ukrainian\u2019s original hit list before retirement did not include the unbeaten German contender. At 39 years old, Usyk has perhaps only two contests remaining, and his team have made it clear that he will only be motivated by \u2018major events.\u2019<\/p>\n
Kabayel\u2019s star power in Germany could be a deciding factor, after the 33-year-old saw an impressive turnout for his January homecoming fight against Damian Knyba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WBC has ordered champion Oleksandr Usyk to face mandatory challenger and interim champion Agit Kabayel next. Usyk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619360","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\/619360","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=619360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}