{"id":793856,"date":"2026-10-06T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793856\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:38:08","slug":"fury-v-joshua-murat-gassiev-unsure-if-he-is-still-wba-super-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793856\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury v Joshua: Murat Gassiev unsure if he is still WBA ‘Super’ champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murat Gassiev says he currently has no idea if he still is the WBA heavyweight champion after reports Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua would fight for his belt.<\/p>\n

Gasiev, 32, was upgraded to ‘Super’ champion in July when Oleksandr Usyk vacated<\/a> the title, having been the ‘Regular’ belt holder since 2025.<\/p>\n

Fury and Joshua are scheduled to fight on 11 December in Cardiff and it was claimed that bout would be for the title<\/a> Gassiev currently holds.<\/p>\n

Speaking to ESPN, external<\/a> and after reaching out to the WBA, Gassiev says he is still in the dark.<\/p>\n

“[The] WBA give me big surprise about my belt. But in press conference when AJ and Fury have face off, I see only Ring Magazine belt, no WBA belt,” Gassiev said.<\/p>\n

“And to be honest right now, I don’t have clear information about this situation. I don’t know. Fight for ‘Super’ belt, another belt, I don’t know.<\/p>\n

“I check my email. I don’t have any messages, any papers, but I’m not manager, promoter [or] lawyer. I’m fighter. I do my job, that’s it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murat Gassiev says he currently has no idea if he still is the WBA heavyweight champion after reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793856","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\/793856","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=793856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}