Andy ‘The Destroyer’ Ruiz Jr. says he’d like to challenge IBF, WBA & WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk next if he successfully defeats Luis ‘King Kong’ Ortiz in their fight next month on September 4th.
Tyson Fury wasn’t joking when he said those people who wish to see him fight Oleksandr Usyk “better get their check books out.”
Deontay Wilder knows Tyson Fury the fighter better than anyone. Having fought Fury three times, over a total of 30 rounds of battle, Wilder knows how strong Fury is, how powerful he is, how good he is.
The Biggest Heavyweight Title Fight Since Ali-Frazier I? Warren Says Fury-Usyk Is “Boxing’s World Cup”
For so many people, the epic, never to be forgotten “Fight of The Century” between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier is and always will be THE biggest, most special world heavyweight title fight of them all.
If it happens as soon as The Mail is reporting it could do, it will almost be too good to be true.
If they meet, and if there is a winner, either Oleksandr Usyk or Tyson Fury will walk away as the first four-belt heavyweight champion in history.
Excellent sportsmanship, excellent boxing skills in an engrossing contest. And, unfortunately, one of the worst score cards ever handed in at the end of a world heavyweight title fight.
IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (20-0, 13 KOs) put on a boxing clinic, defeating Anthony Joshua (24-3, 22 KOs) by a close 12-round split decision in front of a relatively quiet crowd on Saturday night in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
Joshua immediately fell behind in the fight in the early going and got outboxed until he turned to dirty tactics in the eighth round.
On Saturday night, US time, Anthony Joshua attempts to right a wrong in the rematch versus Oleksandr Usyk, streaming live on DAZN stateside.
Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk weighed in at a trim 221 1/2 lbs at Friday’s weigh-in for his rematch with former champion Anthony Joshua ahead of Saturday’s headliner on DAZN PPV at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia.