{"id":1185984,"date":"2022-08-21T20:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/21\/i-want-to-fight-fury-next-usyk\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T20:40:45","slug":"i-want-to-fight-fury-next-usyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/21\/i-want-to-fight-fury-next-usyk\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want To Fight Fury Next-Usyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Oleksandr Usyk on Sunday said he was only interested in fighting WBC champion Tyson Fury next after his victory against Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>He said this on Sunday after the match which was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The fight was tagged \u2018Rage on the Red Sea\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk beat Joshua by a split decision to retain the heavyweight titles.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was awarded a 115-113 decision by the first judge. However, Usyk is awarded it 115-113 and 116-112 by the other two judges, and the Ukrainian retains his titles.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Joshua\u2019s speech, Usyk dedicated his victory to his country and the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did this victory for my country, for all people, militaries who are defending the country. Thank you very, very much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is already historic. Many generations are going to watch this fight, especially the round when someone tried to beat me hard, but I withstood it and turned it in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure that Tyson Fury is not retired yet. I\u2019m sure, I\u2019m convinced he wants to fight me. I want to fight him and if I\u2019m not fighting Tyson Fury, I\u2019m not fighting at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk on Sunday said he was only interested in fighting WBC champion Tyson Fury next after his victory against Anthony Joshua. He said this on Sunday after the match which was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The fight was tagged \u2018Rage on the Red Sea\u2019. Usyk beat Joshua by a split decision to retain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1185986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1271,577,24007],"class_list":["post-1185984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fight","tag-fury","tag-nextusyk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}