{"id":2723,"date":"2026-05-23T14:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:57:34","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-vs-rico-verhoeven-live-uk-start-time-results-and-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2723","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven LIVE: UK start time, results and undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div tabindex=\"0\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Good evening all and welcome to our live blog for Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s heavyweight showdown with kickboxing legend Rico Verhoeven. The two-time undisputed heavyweight champion returns to action for the first time in nearly a year. Usyk, 39, was last spotted in the squared-circle back in July when he needed just five rounds to render Daniel Dubois unconscious in front of over 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">This time around, it should be more of a relatively easier fight on paper for the Ukrainian. Verhoeven has only fought once as a professional boxer &#8211; which was well over 10 years ago. The Dutchman has a glittering background in combat sports, but tonight&#8217;s rival could be too big of a step up in competition. We&#8217;re just hours away from the main event over in Egypt. So, stay tuned as we bring you round by round updates from every fight&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening all and welcome to our live blog for Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s heavyweight showdown with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}