{"id":22016,"date":"2019-10-11T21:51:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T21:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=22016"},"modified":"2019-10-11T21:51:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T21:51:31","slug":"usyk-and-witherspoon-are-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/usyk-and-witherspoon-are-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk and Witherspoon are ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Usyk and Witherspoon are ready<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Oleksandr Usyk, who will make his heavyweight debut this Saturday night in Chicago, is facing Chazz Witherspoon.<\/p>\n<p>Witherspoon, 38, accepted this fight less than a week in advance, \u00a0since Usyk&#8217;s previous rival was removed from the match after an adverse finding reported by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association<\/p>\n<p>This Friday both fighters were face to face for the last time before climbing into the ring, at the official weigh-in.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk weighted\u00a0 215 lbs, while Chazz was 242 lbs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EGnhTVMXYAIXAoc.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82007\" src=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EGnhTVMXYAIXAoc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2012\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EGnhTbGWwAETv8X.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82008\" src=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EGnhTbGWwAETv8X.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EGn0E5DXkAIPx45.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82009\" src=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EGn0E5DXkAIPx45.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usyk and Witherspoon are ready Oleksandr Usyk, who will make his heavyweight debut this Saturday night in Chicago, is facing Chazz Witherspoon. Witherspoon, 38, accepted this<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22016","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\/22016","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=22016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}