
Haye Expects Joshua To Use Physical Advantages To Get Revenge On Usyk
Former two division world champion David Haye believes Anthony Joshua will make the necessary adjustments to get revenge on Oleksandr Usyk in their upcoming rematch.
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Former two division world champion David Haye believes Anthony Joshua will make the necessary adjustments to get revenge on Oleksandr Usyk in their upcoming rematch.

If it was entirely up to Eddie Hearn, the heavyweight title rematch between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk would take place in London, site of the first bout and Joshua’s hometown.

Eddie Hearn says a venue for Oleksandr Usyk’s rematch with Anthony Joshua will be announced within the next two weeks, with “final negotiations” with different sites still taking place.

The team behind unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk are expecting to finalize the date and venue for the rematch with Anthony Joshua within the next two weeks.

Tyson Fury, the 33-year-old WBC titleholder from Manchester, talked about the various “step aside” scenarios that came up during his negotiations to fight countryman mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte. There was talk that Fury could simply bypass the Jamaican-born, London native Whyte to face WBO/WBA/IBF/IBO champion Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine for a full heavyweight unification bout this spring, but that would have been contingent on getting permission from Anthony Joshua, who had a contractual rematch clause with Usyk, and Whyte. In the end, with far too many variables at play, a deal for a step aside fell apart. Fury’s team blamed it on Joshua for asking for a larger fee.

Eddie Hearn has insisted that no deal has been agreed to stage the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Anthony Joshua rematch in Saudi Arabia despite reports claiming a $120 million offer had been made by the country.

Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko have both voiced their support to countryman Oleksandr Usyk, who decided to leave Ukraine to start training for a planned rematch with Anthony Joshua.

As previously reported, Oleksandr Usyk - holder of the WBA, WBO, IBO and IBF belts - announced in a video uploaded on his Instagram Friday that he has started training for his contractually-obligated heavyweight title rematch against England’s Anthony Joshua. Usyk had originally been on track to face Joshua, but with the Russian military invasion of Ukraine that began last month, Usyk decided to put aside his career and enlist in a territorial defense battalion in Kyiv.

IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has taken to social media to confirm that he's officially started camp for his contracted rematch with Anthony Joshua.

The more time Vasiliy Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk spend away from the ring to defend their country, the more it hurts boxing culture. That was the substance of promoter Bob Arum’s message in a recent video put out by his promotional company, Top Rank Inc.