{"id":1396469,"date":"2026-05-22T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/career-record-weight-usyk-and-verhoeven-pass-weigh-in-ceremony-in-giza\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:01:44","slug":"career-record-weight-usyk-and-verhoeven-pass-weigh-in-ceremony-in-giza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/career-record-weight-usyk-and-verhoeven-pass-weigh-in-ceremony-in-giza\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight Kings Clash at the Pyramids: Usyk and Verhoeven Bring Record Weight to Giza Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oleksandr Usyk and Rico Verhoeven completed the official weigh-in ahead of their May 23 showdown near the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The Ukrainian champion stepped onto the scales at the heaviest weight of his professional career, adding even more intrigue to the highly anticipated clash.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.24tv.ua\/biy-usik-verhoven-rezultati-tseremoniyi-zvazhuvannya-hto-vazhchiy_n3068003\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weighing ceremony took place at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr Usyk weighed 105.8 kilograms. This is the highest figure in the Ukrainian boxer&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>Rico Verhoeven weighed 117.3 kilograms. Thus, the Dutch athlete outweighed Usyk by 11.5 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>According to journalists, earlier in April, Verhoeven weighed 125 kilograms, but he lost weight before the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s previous weight record was set in July last year before his second fight against Daniel Dubois. At that time, the Ukrainian weighed 103.1 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, Oleksandr Usyk will return to the ring at the end of May and will fight against kickboxing star Rico Verhoeven. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/usyk-verkhuven-de-i-koly-dyvytysia-biy-za-tytuly-wbc\/\">&#8220;Pryamyi&#8221; told where and when to watch the fight for the WBC titles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1633\" data-end=\"1806\">Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a><\/span>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1633\" data-end=\"1806\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk and Rico Verhoeven completed the official weigh-in ahead of their May 23 showdown near the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The Ukrainian champion stepped onto the scales at the heaviest weight of his professional career, adding even more intrigue to the highly anticipated clash. This is reported by Channel 24. The weighing ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1396463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1396469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396469","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396486,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396469\/revisions\/1396486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}