{"id":22882,"date":"2024-03-12T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=22882"},"modified":"2024-03-12T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:40:54","slug":"wbc-open-to-anthony-joshua-facing-winner-of-fury-vs-usyk-for-heavyweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/12\/wbc-open-to-anthony-joshua-facing-winner-of-fury-vs-usyk-for-heavyweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC Open to Anthony Joshua Facing Winner of Fury vs. Usyk for Heavyweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Sulaiman, President of the World Boxing Council (WBC), has expressed the organization&#8217;s willingness to endorse Anthony Joshua&#8217;s potential bout against the victor of the upcoming clash between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight championship.<\/p>\n<p>Fury and Usyk are set to go toe-to-toe on May 18 in Saudi Arabia, with all the belts on the line. Following this highly anticipated showdown, a rematch between the two fighters is expected later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua, fresh off a stunning second-round knockout victory over former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, stands poised to challenge the winner of Fury vs. Usyk.<\/p>\n<p>Sulaiman confirmed the WBC&#8217;s acceptance of a sanction request for an undisputed title fight and reiterated their readiness to support the bout between Joshua and the eventual winner, provided there are no contractual or promotional obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The WBC position right now is very open to support the undisputed champion taking on the fights that the fans want to see,&#8221; Sulaiman stated in an interview with Sky Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Sulaiman, President of the World Boxing Council (WBC), has expressed the organization&#8217;s willingness to endorse Anthony Joshua&#8217;s potential bout against the victor of the upcoming clash between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight championship. Fury and Usyk are set to go toe-to-toe on May 18 in Saudi Arabia, with all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-22882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-joshua"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22924,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882\/revisions\/22924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}