Oleksandr Usyk: record, next fight and profile →
Former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is hungry to get a measure of some payback when he faces Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch. Their second encounter is being planned for a UK stadium in the coming months.
DANIEL DUBOIS ASSESSED the heavyweight landscape and concluded that he is destined to become the leading man of the division when his time comes.
Heavyweight contender Robert Helenius has been one of the boxers being mentioned as a potential opponent to face WBC word champion Tyson Fury.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, expects his boxer to reveal a new trainer in the next few weeks.
Tony Yoka is prepared to revisit an old rivalry from his amateur days. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Paris’ Yoka—a 2016 Olympic Gold medalist and current rising heavyweight contender—has accepted an invitation from the IBF to enter talks for a final title eliminator versus Croatia’s Filip Hrgovic. His decision comes just before the three-day deadline to decide whether to pursue such a fight. “Tony Yoka has formally accepted tonight in writing the challenge to fight Filip Hrgovic in a final IBF Final Eliminator for the heavyweight world championship,” Nisse Sauerland of Wasserman Boxing, Hrgovic’s co-promoter announced Thursday afternoon via social media. “’El Animal has found a dance partner.”
Derek Chisora is backing former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to once again reclaim his position as a heavy hitter in the weight class with a tremendous 2022.
Tyson Fury evidently is working on his smack talk as much as he is on his body. The WBC heavyweight titleholder unloaded on his divisional peers Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua during a workout session on the treadmill. An amped-up Fury aimed his invective at countryman Joshua for relinquishing his WBA/WBO/IBF heavyweight titles
Anthony Joshua has two wins and two losses in his last four fights. In June 2019, his world and undefeated career came crashing down when he was dropped four times and stopped by Andy Ruiz in the seventh round in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
The Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua rematch looks set to take place outdoors in London in April, according to Eddie Hearn, with a new trainer likely to be in Joshua’s corner.
Oleksandr Usyk's assistant coach, Sergey Lapin, believes a fight with WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury would be a "chess match." There is a huge size disparity, with Fury holding a tremendous physical edge over Usyk, who last year outboxed Anthony Joshua over twelve rounds to capture the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO world titles.