{"id":29903,"date":"2026-05-23T07:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/usyk-vs-rico-tony-bellew-eddie-hearn-and-terence-crawford-give-predictions-for-world-title-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:24:47","slug":"usyk-vs-rico-tony-bellew-eddie-hearn-and-terence-crawford-give-predictions-for-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/usyk-vs-rico-tony-bellew-eddie-hearn-and-terence-crawford-give-predictions-for-world-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk vs Rico: Tony Bellew, Eddie Hearn and Terence Crawford give predictions for world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Oleksandr Usyk defends his WBC world title against Rico Verhoeven on Saturday in Egypt.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cd0pd0930z3o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">The fight<\/a> is unusual in location as in nature, with kickboxing world champion Verhoeven getting a title shot in just his second boxing fight &#8211; and first since 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old Dutchman is aiming to pull off arguably the biggest upset in the sport&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ukrainian Usyk, 39, is aiming to continue his near 17-year winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will we see an underdog win for the ages or will Usyk&#8217;s dominance continue?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport asks the boxing world for their predictions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ckgpjr78kdxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk defends his WBC world title against Rico Verhoeven on Saturday in Egypt. The fight is unusual in location as in nature, with kickboxing world champion Verhoeven getting a title shot in just his second boxing fight &#8211; and first since 2014. The 37-year-old Dutchman is aiming to pull off arguably the biggest upset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29905,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29903\/revisions\/29905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}