Oleksandr Usyk: record, next fight and profile →
According to Eddie Hearn, promoter for former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, the British superstar was excited when he found out Oleksandr Usyk had made a decision to move up in weight. Usyk makes his heavyweight debut on Saturday night, against Chazz Witherspoon in Chicago.
By Cliff Rold - It’s taken longer than expected. The road to finding an opponent has been uneven. None of it matters once the bell rings. Saturday (DAZN, 7 PM EST), chapter three of the Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KO) story gets underway. The first two chapters couldn’t have gone much better. Before the 32-year old Ukrainian made a splash in the...
Chazz Witherspoon Training Photos Gallery - Oleksandr Usyk will face Chazz Witherspoon on his Heavyweight debut at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Saturday night, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK. (photos by Ed Mulholland)
Oleksandr Usyk Training Photos Gallery - Oleksandr Usyk will face Chazz Witherspoon on his Heavyweight debut at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Saturday night, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK. (photos by Ed Mulholland)
Oleksandr Usyk, Bulls Photos Gallery - Oleksandr Usyk will face Chazz Witherspoon on his Heavyweight debut at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Saturday night, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK. (photos by Ed Mulholland)
Witherspoon (38-3 29 KOs) second cousin of former two-time World Heavyweight ruler Tim Witherspoon, is unbeaten in five years with his last win coming in March in Atlantic City over Santiago Silgado and now the 38 year old Philadelphian gets a huge opportunity to pull off a massive upset as Ukrainian pound-for-pound king Usyk moves up to Heavyweight after leaving the Cruiserweight division as the undisputed ruler.
Chazz Witherspoon will get one last chance to make his mark in the heavyweight division. BoxingScene.com has learned that Witherspoon has replaced Tyrone Spong as Oleksandr Usyk’s opponent for Usyk’s true heavyweight debut Saturday night in Chicago. The 38-year-old Witherspoon accepted what will be an extremely challenging fight on less than one week’s notice.
David Haye is certainly an expert in making the big jump from cruiserweight to heavyweight. Haye, who unified three of the cruiserweight world titles, moved up to heavyweight and eventually toppled the seven-foot Nikolai Valuev for the WBA world title.
Tyrone Spong couldn’t believe what he was reading. Even in the age of instant results being made available online, the unbeaten heavyweight was surprised to read from an outside party about his having tested positive for a banned substance before directly hearing about it through his own team.
The heavyweight debut of Oleksandr Usyk is running into some turmoil. Usyk is scheduled to face undefeated heavyweight banger Tyrone Spong, this coming Saturday night in the main event of a DAZN streamed card from Chicago.