Oleksandr Usyk Names The Pound-For-Pound Best Fighter Today
Currently, the debate rages over who the very best fighter on the planet is, pound-for-pound. It’s seen by almost everyone as a two-horse race, between Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue.
Currently, the debate rages over who the very best fighter on the planet is, pound-for-pound. It’s seen by almost everyone as a two-horse race, between Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue.
It could prove to be a pretty big “if,” but “if” Daniel Dubois manages to catch defending WBA/IBF/WBO heavyweight champ when he challenges him in Poland on August 26th, Usyk “won’t know what’s hit him.”
Today at the London presser ahead of the Oleksandr Usyk-Daniel Dubois fight set for Poland on August 26th, Dubois’ promoter Frank Warren recalled some big wins scored by British fighters who were either underdogs or were going into what was looked at as a seriously tough test.
Today in Poland, WBA/IBF/WBO heavyweight champ Oleksandr Usyk and WBA mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois came face-to-face for the first time at the official press conference.
Oleksandr Usyk will be coming off a year layoff to defend his IBF, WBA & WBO heavyweight belts against what many boxing fans feel is the undeserving Daniel Dubois on August 26th in the 45,000-seat Wroclaw, Stadium in Poland.
The way former WBC heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder tells it, current unified WBA/IBF/WBO heavyweight boss Oleksandr Usyk wants absolutely no part of him.
Have you given up all hope of ever seeing a four-belt heavyweight unification clash between rival champions Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury?
You can, perhaps not too surprisingly seeing how they are close friends and both hail from Ukraine, add Oleksandr Usyk’s name to the long list of people who feel Vasiliy Lomachenko was hard done by in his decision loss to Devin Haney.
Amer Abdullah, the director of boxing operations for Skills Challenge Promotions, Tyson Fury will be given a “take it leave it” offer for a fight against Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight championship in December in Saudi Arabia.
As fans may have read or heard, a purse bid is scheduled to take place for a fight between WBA/IBF/WBO heavyweight champ Oleksandr Usyk and WBA mandatory Daniel Dubois.