Agit Kabayel is now full WBC heavyweight world champion, having been upgraded from interim when Oleksandr Usyk vacated the title.<\/p>\n
The undefeated German heavyweight has earned a bogeyman tag in the division following wins over Frank Sanchez and Zhilei Zhang, and was called as Usyk\u2019s mandatory this year.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian, however, has opted to vacate the WBC belt, alongside his IBF and WBA titles<\/a>, to pursue one last fight in America \u2013 perhaps against Deontay Wilder<\/a> \u2013 before hanging up the gloves.<\/p>\n With Kabayel now the champion, talk turns to his first voluntary defence. Speaking to Playbook Boxing, his manager, Spencer Brown, suggested Jarrell Miller as his preferred option.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are looking at a load of dance partners. I had a chat with Frank and George Warren yesterday, [Kabeyel\u2019s] promoter, so they\u2019ve got to put it all together.<\/p>\n For me, it would probably be Jarrell Miller. I like the sound of that fight. It\u2019s a good fight. Miller is number two in the WBA, I think\u2026 I should know, cause I manage him as well \u2026 We know what boxing\u2019s like, sometimes it\u2019s what face fits, and I think he\u2019d be a brash-talking American coming into Germany. I think the fight would sell.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown also mentioned new Queensberry Promotions signing Guido Vianello \u2013 WBC\u2019s number 13 \u2013 and Rico Verhoeven, now ranked at number 8 following his defeat to Usyk, as potential opponents for Kabayel\u2019s first title defence.<\/p>\n Miller is currently not ranked within the sanctioning body\u2019s top fifteen. He comes off a unanimous decision win over Lenier Pero in April. His sole defeat, which came years after a doping ban, came at the hands of current WBO champion Daniel Dubois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agit Kabayel is now full WBC heavyweight world champion, having been upgraded from interim when Oleksandr Usyk vacated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674913","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\/674913","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=674913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}