{"id":1395767,"date":"2026-05-21T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/usyk-verhoeven-where-and-when-to-watch-the-wbc-title-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:47:24","slug":"usyk-verhoeven-where-and-when-to-watch-the-wbc-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/usyk-verhoeven-where-and-when-to-watch-the-wbc-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk \u2013 Verhoeven: where and when to watch the WBC title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oleksandr Usyk returns to the ring in late May and will fight kickboxing star Rico Verhoeven. The fight will be a voluntary defense of the WBC titles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The fight is scheduled for <strong>May 23<\/strong> and will take place in Egypt, near the Giza pyramids. The exact time the boxers will enter the ring has not yet been announced, but it is expected to be late in the evening Kyiv time.<\/p>\n<p> For Usyk, this will be his first appearance in the ring since his rematch victory over Daniel Dubois, after which he confirmed his status as the absolute heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe fight will take place in a unique place in Egypt \u2013 near the pyramids of Giza,\u201d the organizers note.<\/p>\n<p> The Ukrainian&#8217;s opponent has much less boxing experience &#8211; only one official fight in professional boxing, but is well known in kickboxing.<\/p>\n<p> The fight will be broadcast in Ukraine by the <strong>Kyivstar TV<\/strong> service in sports packages, as well as the international <strong>DAZN<\/strong> platform, where access will be paid.<\/p>\n<p> Bookmakers consider Usyk the favorite in the fight. The odds for his victory are significantly lower than for his opponent&#8217;s success or a draw.<\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk returns to the ring in late May and will fight kickboxing star Rico Verhoeven. The fight will be a voluntary defense of the WBC titles. The fight is scheduled for May 23 and will take place in Egypt, near the Giza pyramids. The exact time the boxers will enter the ring has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1395757,"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-1395767","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\/1395767","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1395757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}