{"id":26987,"date":"2025-03-04T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dillian-whyte-heavyweight-pulls-out-of-joe-joyce-fight-with-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:33:09","slug":"dillian-whyte-heavyweight-pulls-out-of-joe-joyce-fight-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dillian-whyte-heavyweight-pulls-out-of-joe-joyce-fight-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte: Heavyweight pulls out of Joe Joyce fight with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dillian Whyte has withdrawn from his heavyweight fight with fellow Briton Joe Joyce on 5 April because of an injured hand.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joyce will remain as the headliner for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cq5g1py750po\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">heavyweight fight night<\/a> at the Co-op Live, which also includes Lawrence Okolie v Richard Riakporhe and the professional debut of Delicious Orie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whyte, 36, has not fought in the UK since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was pulled from his rematch with Anthony Joshua in 2023 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/68463808\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">failing a voluntary drug test,<\/a> but has twice fought abroad since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Queensberry Promotions say a new opponent for his British rival Joyce will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joyce, 39, is facing a crossroads in his career after one win in his last four fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Olympian was stopped twice by Zhilei Zhang in 2023 before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cqv51we248go\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">losing to Derek Chisora<\/a> in his last outing last July. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy7xn0jre2yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dillian Whyte has withdrawn from his heavyweight fight with fellow Briton Joe Joyce on 5 April because of an injured hand. Joyce will remain as the headliner for the heavyweight fight night at the Co-op Live, which also includes Lawrence Okolie v Richard Riakporhe and the professional debut of Delicious Orie. Whyte, 36, has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26989,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions\/26989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}