{"id":1363583,"date":"2026-02-27T21:48:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/usyk-to-fight-rico-verhoeven-date-and-venue-announced\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:48:39","slug":"usyk-to-fight-rico-verhoeven-date-and-venue-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/usyk-to-fight-rico-verhoeven-date-and-venue-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk to fight Rico Verhoeven: date and venue announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will fight Dutch kickboxer Rico Verhoeven on May 23 in Giza, Egypt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Turki_alalshikh\/status\/2027453982717751362\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was announced<\/a> by the head of the General Directorate of Entertainment of Saudi Arabia, Turki Al-Sheikh.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"740\"> The WBC heavyweight title will be on the line. For <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Oleksandr Usyk,<\/span><\/span> this will be another defense of the belt after his July fight, in which he knocked out Daniel Dubois in the fifth round.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"1040\"> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Rico Verhoeven<\/span><\/span> has a 66-10 kickboxing record. He has also fought one fight each in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. The Dutchman held the Glory title for over 12 years and has been one of the top heavyweight kickboxers since 2014.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1042\" data-end=\"1119\"> The fight will be broadcast by the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">DAZN<\/span><\/span> platform. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will fight Dutch kickboxer Rico Verhoeven on May 23 in Giza, Egypt. This was announced by the head of the General Directorate of Entertainment of Saudi Arabia, Turki Al-Sheikh. The WBC heavyweight title will be on the line. For Oleksandr Usyk, this will be another defense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1265440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76895],"class_list":["post-1363583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}