{"id":288156,"date":"2025-07-24T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288156\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:48:10","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-vs-joseph-parker-mandatory-heavyweight-title-boxing-fight-ordered-by-wbo-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288156\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk vs Joseph Parker: Mandatory heavyweight title boxing fight ordered by WBO | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Usyk has been ordered to fight Joseph Parker next in a mandatory defence of the WBO heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk was crowned as the undisputed champion after a fifth-round knockout win over Daniel Dubois on Saturday July 19 and the WBO have moved fast to enforce a title fight, with both parties given 30 days to agree terms or the bout will go to a purse bid.<\/p>\n<p>Trilogy fights against Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua had been mentioned for Usyk, but he will now have to face Parker next, or must vacate the WBO belt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The WBO have actually said that the winner of the fight on Saturday, which was Usyk &#8211; that&#8217;s his mandatory. That&#8217;s the next mandatory due out of the four belts and it has to take place by the end of the year,&#8221; promoter Frank Warren said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skysports-boxing-usyk_6969195.jpg\" alt=\"bOXING uSYK\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <video id=\"id_b5d852c4-0a4e-4a95-bf35-108a7c4cf048\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" class=\"video-js sdc-site-video__tag\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Watch the highlights from Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s spectacular knockout victory against Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless he vacates the belt. If he decides to vacate it, then [Parker] will have to fight the No 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Promoter David Higgins claimed after the fight that Usyk cannot call himself the greatest heavyweight boxer of his era until he fights and beats Parker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole world wants to see Parker fight for a world title,&#8221; Parker told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skysports-frank-warren-tyson-fury_6969865.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Warren reveals chances Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury 3\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <video id=\"id_188e5932-d3b2-48a0-a725-ca781066605e\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" class=\"video-js sdc-site-video__tag\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Promoter Frank Warren believes there is an appetite for a third fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been in the queue for a long time. He&#8217;s a frontrunner. He&#8217;s mandatory with the WBO. It&#8217;s great to hear Frank Warren saying Parker next. It&#8217;s great to hear experts like Lennox Lewis saying Parker next.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it would be an outrage if he didn&#8217;t get the shot. It&#8217;s not really fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More to follow\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk has been ordered to fight Joseph Parker next in a mandatory defence of the WBO heavyweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908764853335816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}