{"id":620299,"date":"2026-06-04T06:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620299\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:38:30","slug":"rico-verhoeven-names-3-british-heavyweights-he-is-confident-of-beating-following-usyk-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620299\/","title":{"rendered":"Rico Verhoeven Names 3 British Heavyweights He Is Confident Of Beating Following Usyk Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rico Verhoeven stunned the boxing world with his recent performance against Oleksandr Usyk and has named a list of UK heavyweights he thinks he could now defeat.<\/p>\n

Verhoeven is known as one of the longest-reigning champions the heavyweight kickboxing division has ever seen. However, in May he made the switch to high-level boxing against Usyk \u2013 one of the greatest to ever lace up the gloves in the eyes of many \u2013 and turned in a performance no one expected.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dutchman tucked his chin in and boxed well behind a solid jab, working at a great pace and largely disrupting the Ukrainian\u2019s rhythm. He was up on one card after 10 rounds before Usyk caught up with him. Verhoeven survived a knockdown, but referee Mark Lyson stepped in to stop the fight controversially after another barrage on the ropes.<\/p>\n

Speaking to talkSPORT Boxing<\/a>, the world title challenger was asked if he thought he would beat any heavyweight boxer right now, including Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n

\u201c100%, that\u2019s why I\u2019m here. 100%. Of course, I was so close to beating Usyk, and they all got beaten twice by that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was then asked if he would beat Moses Itauma.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen him on the highest level, I\u2019ve seen him on a decent level, fighting decent opponents, but I haven\u2019t seen him at the highest level, so I am really curious to see what he does, if he\u2019s gonna fight me, or fight another guy, let\u2019s see how he performs when he fights a serious opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid the backlash around the early stoppage, Verhoeven has pushed hard for a rematch with Usyk and, for his impressive efforts in the fight, will be given a top ranking by the WBC.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rico Verhoeven stunned the boxing world with his recent performance against Oleksandr Usyk and has named a list…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620299","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\/620299","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=620299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}