{"id":19612,"date":"2019-08-19T19:09:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=19612"},"modified":"2019-08-19T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:09:56","slug":"uni-fireworks-promised-with-gvozdyk-vs-beterbiev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/uni-fireworks-promised-with-gvozdyk-vs-beterbiev\/","title":{"rendered":"Uni-Fireworks promised with Gvozdyk vs. Beterbiev"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Uni-Fireworks promised with Gvozdyk vs. Beterbiev<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The World Boxing Council light heavyweight champion, Oleksandr &#8216;The Nail&#8217; Gvozdyk and also champion Artur Beterbiev, are getting ready to clash in a highly anticipated unification clash on Friday, October 18 at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The unification match Gvozdyk vs. Beterbiev will be part of card presented by \u00a0Top Rank on ESPN starting at 10 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. PT live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets priced at $ 150, $ 90, $ 75 and $ 50 (not including applicable fees) will go on sale on Friday, August 23 at 12 p.m. ET and can be purchased at the box office of the Liacouras Center, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liacourascenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.liacourascenter.com<\/a> \u00a0or by calling 800-298-4200.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This could be the fight of the year,&#8221; confidently predicts legendary promoter Bob Arum, stressing: \u00a0\u201cThese are two undefeated light heavyweight champions. There is nothing better in the sport of boxing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first goal was to win a light heavyweight world title. Now, I want to unify the belts, and that mission starts with Artur Beterbiev,&#8221; pledges\u00a0Gvozdyk, stressing: \u201cThis will be a spectacular fight, and definitely one that fans will enjoy, as they`ve been asking \u00a0for this fight. One thing I know is that I will become a unified champion. I have the best coach, Teddy Atlas, in my corner. This is our third fight together, and\u00a0with \u00a0his guidance, I continue improving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank Top Rank and my opponent, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, for making this unification fight possible and giving fans around the world what they want to see,&#8221; Beterbiev said, pledging:\u201cThis will be a great fight between two champions who aspire to become the undisputed world champion. I really want to get in the ring on October 18th. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toprank.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.toprank.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.espn.com\/boxing<\/a> ; Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/trboxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.facebook.com\/trboxing<\/a> ; Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/trboxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.twitter.com\/trboxing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uni-Fireworks promised with Gvozdyk vs. Beterbiev The World Boxing Council light heavyweight champion, Oleksandr &#8216;The Nail&#8217; Gvozdyk and also champion Artur Beterbiev, are getting ready to<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19612","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\/19612","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=19612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}