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Alexander Krassyuk, promoter for WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, explains that a "take it or leave it" offer will be issued to WBC champion Tyson Fury in the near future.
WBO, IBF, WBA, IBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is planning to invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to personally attend the upcoming defense with mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois.
WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk believes his most recent opponent, Anthony Joshua, has received unfair criticism over his most recent outing.
Oleksandr Usyk was apparently as outraged as many other viewers who tuned into the recent undisputed light heavyweight championship between Devin Haney and Vasiliy Lomachenko.
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, stands firm that his unbeaten fighter is not the person to blame for the failed negotiations to make an undisputed fight with WBA, IBF, IBO, WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk.
Oleksandr Usyk made his intentions clear for his latest promotional move. The unbeaten Ukrainian southpaw is determined to become a two-division undisputed champion. His team decided the best way to get there is to directly sign with Skill Challenge Promotions, who was already planning to stage a major
Oleksandr Usyk has added reinforcements to his team. The two-division and reigning unified heavyweight titlist has entered an agreement with Saudi Arabia-based Skill Challenge Promotions (SCP). The deal was formally announced Saturday via social media, following a week-long tease by company CEO Amer Abdallah of a big signing on the way for the upstart promotional outfit. Usyk (20-0, 13KOs) joins three-division and reigning WBC cruiserweight titlist Badou Jack (28-3-3, 17KOs) and unbeaten prospect Ziyad Almaayouf (3-0, 1KO) on the intimate but growing roster.
The Oleksandr Usyk-Daniel Dubois unified heavyweight title fight will now take place two weeks after its original target date. The slight delay is for good reason. Alex Krassyuk, Usyk’s career-long promoter and head of K2 Promotions-Ukraine, revealed that the bout will now take place August 26 at Stadion Wroclaw (Tarczynski Arena Wroclaw) in Wroclaw, Poland. The switch is to align the event with Ukraine Independence Day (August 24), with a crowd of 24,000 expected in the heavily Ukrainian-populated region.
Deontay Wilder is under the impression that a certain Ukrainian heavyweight would be reluctant to fight him. The former heavyweight titlist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, offered a stern if somewhat cryptic response to a hypothetical fight with the division’s unified champion, Oleksandr Usyk, who holds the WBO, WBA, IBO and IBF titles.
Top Rank president Todd DuBoef, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, would like to see his boxer matched in a major fight - especially a full division unification with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk.