{"id":627924,"date":"2026-06-08T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627924\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:20:08","slug":"joe-joyce-briton-set-for-return-against-undefeated-artem-suslenkov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627924\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Joyce: Briton set for return against undefeated Artem Suslenkov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Joe Joyce will return to the ring for the first time in more than a year when he challenges undefeated Russian heavyweight Artem Suslenkov for the WBA Continental title in Moscow on 11 July.<\/p>\n

Joyce, 40, has been out of action since he lost to Filip Hrgovic by unanimous decision<\/a> for the vacant WBO international heavyweight title in April 2025.<\/p>\n

The 2016 Olympic silver medallist has lost four of his past five fights, with his last victory coming against Kash Ali in March 2024.<\/p>\n

After the Hrgovic defeat, Joyce’s promoter Frank Warren said he needed to have a “real serious think about the future”.<\/p>\n

But despite the setbacks, Joyce – who has a professional record of 16 wins and four losses – says he has spent the past 12 months “preparing, training and wanting to be back in the ring”.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited for the opportunity to travel to Russia and challenge for the WBA Continental heavyweight title on July 11,” added Joyce.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to IBA Pro for the opportunity. My team and I are locked in and Moscow should get ready for a big performance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Joe Joyce will return to the ring for the first time in more than a year when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627924","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\/627924","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=627924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}