{"id":12068,"date":"2026-04-03T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:48:03","slug":"boxing-usyk-v-verhoeven-undercard-announced-with-hamzah-sheeraz-in-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12068","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 Oleksandr Usyk&#8217;s world title fight against Dutchman Rico Verhoeven at the Pyramids of Giza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheeraz, 26, failed in his one previous world title fight at middleweight 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 \/><\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}