{"id":624098,"date":"2026-06-06T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624098\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:13:07","slug":"carl-frampton-names-the-two-heavyweights-who-can-beat-oleksandr-usyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624098\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Frampton names the two heavyweights who can beat Oleksandr Usyk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Frampton<\/a> suspects Father Time is creeping up on Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, naming two heavyweights who he now believes could defeat the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old produced a subpar performance against Rico Verhoeven last month, but nonetheless retained his WBC, IBF and WBA titles with an 11th-round stoppage.<\/p>\n

Prior to the finish, Verhoeven had enjoyed considerable success for a man whose only previous boxing match, in 2014, saw him stop an 0-5 journeyman in round two.<\/p>\n

The Dutchman was even ahead on one of the judges\u2019 scorecards<\/a>, only for Usyk to score an 11th-round knockdown before referee Mark Lyson drew a controversial halt.<\/p>\n

Verhoeven had risen from the canvas, offering some form of defence, but was ultimately stopped on his feet immediately after the bell had sounded.<\/p>\n

Usyk then revealed in his post-fight interview that, prior to stepping through the ropes, his daughter had phoned him from a bomb shelter in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The extent to which this impacted his performance, only he will know, yet many have nonetheless made up their minds that the three-time, two-division undisputed champion should call time on his illustrious career.<\/p>\n

One man who would like to see him hang up the gloves is Frampton, who told Boxing Now<\/a> that he would favour Agit Kabayel and Moses Itauma to beat this version of Usyk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019ve had the career and have been involved in boxing for the amount of years that Usyk has, then [Father Time] catches up on you.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing off that performance [against] Verhoeven, I would favour Kabayel. I would also favour Moses Itauma over him.\u201d<\/p>\n

While having ruled out a clash with Itauma, Usyk has been ordered to defend his WBC title against \u2018interim\u2019 champion Kabayel<\/a>, who represents a likely next opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Frampton suspects Father Time is creeping up on Oleksandr Usyk, naming two heavyweights who he now believes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624098","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\/624098","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=624098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}