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Deontay Wilder plans to supplant English counterpart Anthony Joshua as the world’s No. 1 heavyweight by stopping Joshua’s undefeated countryman and lineal champion Tyson Fury on December 1 at Staples Center in Las Angeles.
David Haye is one of only two boxers that can offer a personal perspective on what it takes for a cruiserweight champion to move up and beat a huge heavyweight champion. The retired Haye’s advice to Oleksandr Usyk would be to tighten up his defense. The former heavyweight and cruiserweight champ didn’t consider defense an issue for Usyk until he watched Tony Bellew regularly land his right hand against the unbeaten Ukrainian on Saturday night in Manchester, England.
Eddie Hearn envisions a day when Anthony Joshua-Oleksandr Usyk will do big business in the United Kingdom. Their promoter wholeheartedly agrees with Usyk, though, in that the Joshua fight isn’t quite right for the undisputed cruiserweight champion just yet. Usyk intends to acclimate himself at heavyweight by boxing a less dangerous opponent once the unbeaten Ukrainian leaves the cruiserweight division behind.
Carl Froch is as impressed by Oleksandr Usyk as most boxing experts and fans. The former super middleweight champion is intrigued, too, by the probability of the unbeaten Ukrainian southpaw moving up to heavyweight. Froch cautioned, however, that the undisputed cruiserweight champion’s handlers should be careful to avoid moving Usyk too fast within that dangerous division.
Oleksandr Usyk is in no rush to move up to the heavyweight division to challenge Anthony Joshua. The Ukrainian defended his WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO cruiserweight titles with a devastating eighth-round knockout of Tony Bellew at the Manchester Arena.
Oleksandr Usyk remained the undisputed world cruiserweight champion on Saturday with an eighth round stoppage of Tony Bellew at the Manchester Arena. The 2012 Olympic heavyweight gold medallist stunned Bellew with a right to the head before banging in a looping left to send him crashing to the canvas and, ultimately, into retirement.
Top heavyweight contender Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller (22-0-1) returns to action on Saturday, November 17th in Kansas against fellow unbeaten Bogdan Dinu (18-0). The fight will top the latest DAZN streamed card. Other fights on the card include Gabe Rosado-Luis Arias, Brandon Rios-Ramon Alvarez and WBA/IBF middleweight champion Clarissa Shields against Hannah Rankin.
Former five division world champion and Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard believes Anthony Joshua must go global by fighting in the United States. Joshua, who holds the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO heavyweight titles, has exclusively fought in the UK - where he brings in massive crowds, like 90,000 to his April 2017 TKO win over Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium in London.
WBA, IBF, IBO, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (22-0, 21 KOs) could already have a potential opponent lined up for the fall of 2019. Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom, who promotes Joshua, says his boxer could potentially face WBO, WBC, IBF, WBA cruiserweight king Oleksandr Usyk (15-0, 11 KOs) in the fall of 2019.
NEW YORK – Dillian Whyte’s narrow victory over Dereck Chisora amounted to such a brutal battle, Whyte didn’t fight again for eight months. If Whyte wins their rematch December 22, he could earn another shot at unbeaten British superstar Anthony Joshua in his following fight. That’d require Whyte to take less than a two-month break after facing Chisora again in order to properly prepare for a potential fight against Joshua on April 13 at Wembley Stadium in London.