{"id":39314,"date":"2026-03-01T22:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/oleksandr-usyk-wbc-heavyweight-champion-confirms-may-fight-in-egypt-with-kickboxing-champion-rico-verhoeven\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:57:03","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-wbc-heavyweight-champion-confirms-may-fight-in-egypt-with-kickboxing-champion-rico-verhoeven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/oleksandr-usyk-wbc-heavyweight-champion-confirms-may-fight-in-egypt-with-kickboxing-champion-rico-verhoeven\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk: WBC heavyweight champion confirms May fight in Egypt with kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk: WBC heavyweight champion confirms May fight in Egypt with kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven WBC heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will face kickboxer Rico Verhoeven in a title fight on May 23 in Giza, Egypt; Verhoeven is widely regarded as the best heavyweight kickboxer in the world; Ukrainian Usyk hasn&#8217;t boxed since he knocked out<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13513102\/oleksandr-usyk-wbc-heavyweight-champion-confirms-may-fight-in-egypt-with-kickboxing-champion-rico-verhoeven\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk: WBC heavyweight champion confirms May fight in Egypt with kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven WBC heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will face kickboxer Rico Verhoeven in a title fight on May 23 in Giza, Egypt; Verhoeven is widely regarded as the best heavyweight kickboxer in the world; Ukrainian Usyk hasn&#8217;t boxed since he knocked outRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}