{"id":402857,"date":"2021-10-10T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=402857"},"modified":"2021-10-10T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T08:32:09","slug":"anthony-joshuas-rematch-with-usyk-officially-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=402857","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua&#8217;s rematch with Usyk officially confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Anthony Joshua\u2019s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has confirmed that he has triggered his rematch clause with Oleksandr Usyk.<br \/>\nThe fight is expected to take place in March next year.<br \/>\nUsyk has already said he would like to defend his newly-won titles in Ukraine.<br \/>\nHowever, Hearn has claimed that the rematch will take place in the UK.<br \/>\nJoshua lost his WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO belts to Usyk via a unanimous decision last week.<br \/>\n\u201cToday we officially triggered the rematch for the Oleksandr Usyk fight, which we\u2019ll see early next spring.<br \/>\n\u201cBack in the game and we\u2019re looking for him to become three-time world champion.<br \/>\n\u201cA few niggles in camp for AJ, Usyk had a bad cut, it\u2019s officially triggered, we\u2019ll sit down with K2 Promotions and I think March is when you\u2019ll see that fight.<br \/>\n\u201cThis was a disappointing loss to a pound-for-pound great. We don\u2019t need to get back in the game with 10-rounders, he needs to rip those belts off Usyk,\u201d Hearn told DAZN.<br \/>\n<strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua\u2019s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has confirmed that he has triggered his rematch clause with Oleksandr Usyk. The fight is expected to take place in March next year. Usyk has already said he would like to defend his newly-won titles in Ukraine. However, Hearn has claimed that the rematch will take place in the UK. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[897,2253],"class_list":["post-402857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/402858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}