Oleksandr Usyk: record, next fight and profile →
John Fury, the father of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has actually come out in defense of Anthony Joshua. Last weekend, Joshua suffered a twelve round unanimous decision loss to Oleksandr Uysk, who walked away with the WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight titles.
Eddie Hearn, who promotes British superstar Anthony Joshua, felt his boxer was making things very close before Oleksandr Usyk took full control in the final rounds of their bout.
As tantalizing as the prospect might be, Shelly Finkel has no plans of entertaining an undisputed title bout anytime soon for his client Deontay Wilder.
Usyk, Klitschko Photos Gallery - The Mayor of Kiev, Ukraine, Vitali Klitschko, met with the new world heavyweight champion, countryman Oleksandr Usyk, to congratulate him on his recent triumph over British superstar Anthony Joshua.
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is expecting his next fight to be a rematch with Anthony Joshua. According to Alexander Krassyuk, who promotes Usyk, the rematch will indeed take place in "February or March" of next year.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, believes Oleksandr Usyk would have a repeat performance in a rematch with Anthony Joshua.
Anthony Joshua isn’t the least bit concerned about whether he’ll assume an unfamiliar role of underdog when he fights Oleksandr Usyk again. The former IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion is focused much more on applying the lessons that he learned from his 12-round, unanimous-decision defeat to Usyk
Former undisputed junior welterweight world champion Josh Taylor was blown away by Saturday's performance from Oleksandr Uysk. In 2018, Usyk became the undisputed world champion in the cruiserweight division when he easily outboxed Murat Gassiev over twelve rounds in the final bout of the first season of the World Boxing Super Series tournament.
Middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. expects Anthony Joshua to bounce back stronger than ever after last Saturday's defeat at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Joshua was outboxed over twelve rounds by mandatory challenger Oleksandr Usyk, who walked away with the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight titles.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I read somewhere that we shouldn’t write Anthony Joshua off just yet. That because he’s a big, athletic guy that he can still be a heavyweight elite. All he’s got to do, the piece insisted, was simply change his entire in-ring persona. Stop being a gentleman. Turn into a tenacious, chip-on-shoulder monster.