{"id":1410917,"date":"2026-06-26T20:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/i-have-a-last-dance-usyk-gave-up-all-championship-belts\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:32:37","slug":"i-have-a-last-dance-usyk-gave-up-all-championship-belts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/i-have-a-last-dance-usyk-gave-up-all-championship-belts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI have a last dance\u201d: Usyk gave up all championship belts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk announced that he is giving up all of his championship belts. At the same time, the athlete said that he is not ending his career and will have one more fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said this on Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n

In a video message, the boxer said that he wants to make his championship titles vacant so that other athletes have the opportunity to compete for them.<\/p>\n

“Good afternoon everyone. Today is Friday, the weather is good and it’s a good day to say that I want to leave all my belts that I own today. Make them free so that the guys who are standing in line can box for them,” said Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the boxer emphasized that he is not leaving professional sports and plans to have another fight.<\/p>\n

“Friends, I’m leaving the belts, but I’m not leaving the sport, because I have a “last dance”. I want to thank everyone, I have respect for all organizations, I want to thank everyone and say: more to come,” said Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n

Recall that the World Boxing Council (WBC) has sanctioned a mandatory defense of the heavyweight championship title for Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> . The Ukrainian boxer’s next opponent is undefeated German boxer Agit Kabael.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk announced that he is giving up all of his championship belts. At the same time, the athlete said that he is not ending his career and will have one more fight. He said this on Instagram . In a video message, the boxer said that he wants to make his championship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1113216,"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-1410917","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\/1410917","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=1410917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}