{"id":83005,"date":"2019-10-08T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T04:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=83005"},"modified":"2019-10-08T22:26:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T04:26:16","slug":"chazz-witherspoon-steps-in-to-face-oleksandr-usyk-saturday-night-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=83005","title":{"rendered":"Chazz Witherspoon Steps In to Face Oleksandr Usyk Saturday Night &#8211; Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=83005\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=83005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83006 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-12-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-12-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-12-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-12-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-12.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Witherspoon (38-3 29 KOs) second cousin of former two-time World Heavyweight ruler Tim Witherspoon, is unbeaten in five years with his last win coming in March in Atlantic City over Santiago Silgado and now the 38 year old Philadelphian gets a huge opportunity to pull off a massive upset as Ukrainian pound-for-pound king Usyk moves up to Heavyweight after leaving the Cruiserweight division as the undisputed ruler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to face Usyk in Chicago,\u201d said Witherspoon. \u201cI have been in training ready for a big fight, and it doesn\u2019t get bigger than this. Oleksandr is stepping up to Heavyweight \u2013 and he\u2019s going to find out that it\u2019s a totally different game.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve won my last eight fights and I really feel that I\u2019ve been waiting in the wings for a huge opportunity like this and I am going to put every ounce of myself into the fight on this massive stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witherspoon replaces Tyrone Spong in the main event on the stacked card in the Windy City after there were adverse findings in two of Spong\u2019s urine samples. As a result, the Illinois State Athletic Commission will not license Tyrone to box and rescinded their approval of the bout with Usyk.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WuM6lG_KPHg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> Heavyweight bow against Witherspoon is part of a huge night of World championship action in Chicago as Dmitry Bivol defends his WBA World Light-Heavyweight title against Lenin Castillo and unified Super-Lightweight champion Jessica McCaskill defends her WBA and WBC titles against old foe Erica Farias.<\/p>\n<p>Unbeaten Super-Middleweight talent Anthony Sims Jr returns to action against Morgan Fitch, Charles Conwell defends his USBA Super-Welterweight title against Patrick Day, an all-Chicago Super-Featherweight clash between Josh Hernandez and Giovanni Mioletti, former World title challenger TJ Doheny returns to the ring, Reshat Mati is back after recovering from a shoulder injury and a fourth pro outing for rising starlet Otha Jones III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] Witherspoon (38-3 29 KOs) second cousin of former two-time World Heavyweight ruler Tim Witherspoon, is unbeaten in five years with his last win coming in March in Atlantic City over Santiago Silgado and now the 38 year old Philadelphian gets a huge opportunity to pull off a massive upset as Ukrainian pound-for-pound king Usyk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20800],"class_list":["post-83005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-chazz-witherspoon-steps-in-to-face-oleksandr-usyk-saturday-night-breaking-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83005"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}