The World Boxing Organization (WBO) has ordered negotiations to begin between heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk and Joseph Parker for a mandatory defense of the belt.Usyk, ...

The WBO has mandated heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (23-0, 14 KOs) to take on interim titleholder Joseph Parker (36-3, ...

New Zealand's Parker was WBO champion from 2016 to 2018, when he was beaten by Anthony Joshua on a 12-round unanimous decision. The Briton then lost the belt to Usyk in London in September 2021.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Oleksandr Usyk has been ordered by the WBO to start negotiations for a title defense against Joseph Parker amid reported talks between the Ukrainian and Daniel Dubois for ...

LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - The World Boxing Organisation ordered Ukraine's world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk to open talks with Joseph Parker on Thursday for a mandatory title defence.

Oleksandr Usyk's plans to rematch Daniel Dubois in an undisputed heavyweight title fight hit a major stumbling block ...

The 33-year-old Parker is a former WBO champion. The New Zealander won the belt in December 2016 when he beat Andy Ruiz and lost it to Anthony Joshua 15 months later.

Oleksandr Usyk has been ordered to start negotiations to defend his WBO heavyweight title against ... recently knocking out compatriot Anthony Joshua at Wembley last September.

The World Boxing Organization (WBO) has ordered negotiations ... until March 2018 when he lost it to Anthony Joshua along with the IBO and IBF belts. After suffering his third career defeat ...