Oleksandr Usyk will battle in July or August 2025 to defend his unified heavyweight title. He beat former WBC champion Tyson Fury by a 12-round unanimous resolution of their rematch final Saturday night time in Riyadh.
The battle was a neater one for Usyk than their earlier match on account of Fury selecting to bulk up 281 lbs and being too heavy to do a lot of something within the battle.
Tyson regarded in poor bodily form as if he’d put in a token effort in coaching camp getting ready for the rematch. It was embarrassing to observe, and it needed to have been disappointing for his followers. You possibly can inform from Fury’s midsection that he’d eaten nicely throughout camp.
Who’s Subsequent?
Usyk’s supervisor, Egis Klimas, instructed Boxingscene that Oleksander (23-0, 14 KOs) will relaxation till subsequent summer season. There’s no phrase about who Usyk may face subsequent. These fascinating choices for Usyk to make a voluntary protection:
– Agit Kabayel
– Moses Itauma
– Fabio Wardley
– Martin Bakole
British followers are speaking up Itauma after his win over journeyman Demsey McKean final Saturday night time. If Itauma’s promoter believes in him, he ought to put his religion to the take a look at by matching him towards Usyk whereas he’s nonetheless within the recreation. In the event that they wait, Usyk will retire, and Itauma can be caught preventing no names.
The timing may imply {that a} unification match towards IBF champion Daniel Dubois isn’t an possibility for Usyk’s subsequent battle. Dubois is defending his belt towards Joseph Parker on February twenty second, and it could be a quick turnaround for him to return to camp to start coaching for a match towards Usyk in July or August.
The 27-year-old Dubois is younger sufficient to get again within the ring rapidly, however he received’t be at his finest as a result of it’ll take him time to organize for Usyk’s type. He can’t do it with a brief cram session throughout coaching camp.
If Dubois rushes into the battle towards the gifted Ukrainian, he may dwell to remorse it and endure one other knockout loss like of their first battle final yr on August twenty sixth in Wroclaw, Poland. Usyk boxed Dubois via eight rounds after which poured it on within the ninth spherical to knock out the drained large.
Like the primary one, it wasn’t a punishing battle for Usyk, as he outsmarted Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs), profiting from his restricted mobility to work him over with mixtures.
He confirmed that the Gypsy King has misplaced quite a bit from his recreation during the last 4 years, worn down from his three battles towards ‘The Bronze Bomber’ Deontay Wilder.
