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Heavyweight contender Otto Wallin expects a solid contest when Oleksandr Usyk defends the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight belts against mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois.
Alexander Krassyuk, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, explains that his boxer has an "obligation" to the sport to finalize an undisputed fight with WBC world champion Tyson Fury.
Olympic bronze medal winner David Price views mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois as having the perfect style for unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. Dubois will challenge Usyk for the WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA titles on Saturday night in Poland.
Heavyweight contender Danniel Dubois is a huge underdog in the upcoming showdown with WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA world champion Oleksandr Usyk. Many of the critics are pointing to Dubois' last performance, which came against Kevin Lerena in December. During that fight, Dubois went down three times. He was able to overcome those scares to drop and stop Lerena in the third.
Don Charles, the head trainer for heavyweight contender Daniel Dubois, believes his boxer has the necessary recipe to overcome the upcoming task of WBO, IBO, WBA, IBF world champion Oleksandr Usyk. Dubois, the mandatory challenger, will face Uysk this coming Saturday night in Poland.
Tyson Fury has some serious reservations about the prospect of seeing himself in the ring against the likes of Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua. The WBC titlist from Manchester, England, offered a dim prognosis of those compelling heavyweight matchups in a recent interview.
By Corey Erdman - If you would have logged on to Twitter or your favorite boxing message board around November of 2020 and suggested that one day, Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois would fight one another for the unified heavyweight title, you probably would have been ratio’d.
By Cliff Rold - In recent weeks, the pound-for-pound discussion that has crystallized around Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue as the sports overall standard bearers has been followed almost universally by a third notable name. It’s been five years since a breakthrough campaign that elevated him to no less than number two all-time behind
Filip Hrgovic will watch with an analytical eye from a ringside seat August 26, when Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois will fight for Usyk’s heavyweight titles.
Remaining undefeated was the goal for Anthony Joshua. Of course, he had other plans along the way. Winning multiple world titles, knocking off a few great fighters, and pocketing a boatload of money were all salient. But remaining spotless in the loss column was priority number one for the hulking heavyweight.