{"id":40775,"date":"2026-04-04T03:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boxing-usyk-v-verhoeven-undercard-announced-with-hamzah-sheeraz-in-world-title-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:54:23","slug":"boxing-usyk-v-verhoeven-undercard-announced-with-hamzah-sheeraz-in-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boxing-usyk-v-verhoeven-undercard-announced-with-hamzah-sheeraz-in-world-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Usyk v Verhoeven undercard announced with Hamzah Sheeraz in world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hamzah Sheeraz will fight Alem Begic for the WBO super-middleweight title on 23 May in Egypt.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Briton will be chief support to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c5yqpj9ppkgo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s world title fight<\/a> against Dutchman Rico Verhoeven at the Pyramids of Giza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheeraz, 26, failed in his one previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cj67knpl4p8o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">world title fight at middleweight<\/a> while the unbeaten German Begic challenges for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Begic, 39, is unbeaten in 30 fights with one draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Giza event will feature another world title fight as Japan&#8217;s Mizuki Hiruta will defend her WBO super-flyweight belt against Egyptian-born Australian Mai Soliman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hiruta, 29, is undefeated in 10 fights and won her world title in just her fourth outing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also on the Usyk-Verhoeven undercard is Englishman Jack Catterall, who continues his bid to become a world champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Catterall will face undefeated Uzbek contender Shakhram Giyasov for the WBA &#8216;regular&#8217; welterweight title and the opportunity to potentially face WBA &#8216;super&#8217; champion Rolando Romero.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cp8d60zjr12o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamzah Sheeraz will fight Alem Begic for the WBO super-middleweight title on 23 May in Egypt. The Briton will be chief support to Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s world title fight against Dutchman Rico Verhoeven at the Pyramids of Giza. Sheeraz, 26, failed in his one previous world title fight at middleweight while the unbeaten German Begic challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40776,"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\/40775"}],"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=40775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40777,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40775\/revisions\/40777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}