{"id":13246,"date":"2019-04-10T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/usyk-debuta-en-peso-completo-contra-takam\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T20:09:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:09:35","slug":"time-to-take-on-the-big-boys-usyk-prepares-with-gusto-to-debut-as-a-heavyweight-against-takam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/time-to-take-on-the-big-boys-usyk-prepares-with-gusto-to-debut-as-a-heavyweight-against-takam\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to take on the big boys!  Usyk prepares with gusto to debut as a heavyweight against Takam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Time to take on the big boys!\u00a0 Usyk prepares with gusto to debut as a heavyweight against Takam<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WBC cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will\u00a0fight a heavyweight bout versus Carlos Takam, on May 25 at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland through the \u00a0DAZN platform.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs), a multi talented 32-year-old southpaw and 2012 Olympian Olympic heavyweight gold medalist from Ukraine, has carved out a \u00a0big role and dented a big hole in the cruiserweight division. He successfully completed his goal to become the undisputed cruiserweight champion and now&#8230; he plans to do the same as a heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p>Winning in his debut at the heavyeight division will give him\u00a0a\u00a0superb fighting \u00a0chance of\u00a0securing\u00a0\u00a0mega matches against champions Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May 25 marks an important moment in my career when I debut in the heavyweight division. In the cruiserweight division, I accomplished everything and became the undisputed champion. That`s now my goal as a \u00a0heavyweight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Takam (36-5-1, 28 KOs), 38,\u00a0isn`t a\u00a0simple straight forward fight. Originally from Cameroon based in France, he`s fought\u00a0the cream of the \u00a0heavyweights crop,\u00a0including former champions Alexander Povetkin, Joseph Parker plus Dereck Chisora, and\u00a0he`s \u00a0offered great opposition. He also challenged Anthony Joshua in October of 2017 and was knocked out in the tenth round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to take on the big boys!\u00a0 Usyk prepares with gusto to debut as a heavyweight against Takam &nbsp; &nbsp; WBC cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will\u00a0fight<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}