Oleksandr Usyk: record, next fight and profile →
If Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk expect to maximize the earnings from their undisputed heavyweight rematch, they will likely have to fight somewhere in the sandy climes of the Oil Kingdom.
Alex Krassyuk, promoter for WBO. IBF, WBA, IBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, says and undisputed fight with WBC champion Tyson Fury should happen no later than the first quarter of 2023.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has serious doubts that Oleksandr Usyk will have the ability to absorb the same punches that Derek Chisora was rocked with earlier this month.
Sergey Lapin, who is part of the training team for unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, does not expect a recent WBA order to derail a blockbuster fight with WBC world champion Tyson Fury. The fight is currently being targeted for the first quarter of 2023.
Joe Joyce, who earlier this year scored a knockout of Joseph Parker to capture the WBO's interim-title at heavyweight, is aiming to fight the winner of a potential clash with Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.
Sergey Lapin, who is part of Oleksandr Usyk's training team, is convinced the smaller man has more than enough to defeat the much larger Tyson Fury.
WBO interim-heavyweight champion Joe Joyce is hoping to secure a fight either Tyson Fury or Oleksandr Usyk in the summer of 2023. Joyce is the mandatory challenger to Usyk, who holds the WBO, IBF, WBA, IBO world titles. Fury is the WBC world champion.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury took a few more verbal swipes at former two-time beltholder and domestic rival Anthony Joshua. Fury and Joshua were in talks to face each other earlier this month. A deal never came to fruition, with Fury instead being forced to take part in a trilogy fight with Derek Chisora.
Artur Beterbiev apparently is open to the idea of rekindling his rivalry with Oleksandr Usyk. Beterbiev, the IBF, WBO, and WBC 175-pound champion from Russia, fought Ukraine’s Usyk a few times in the amateur ranks. According to Boxrec, Beterbiev won once, in 2007, and lost the other two times, in 2011 and 2012, the last being
Former two division world champion David Haye believes that a prime version of himself would have handled a pound-for-pound boxer like Oleksandr Usyk.