“Conor, let’s end the fight at Wembley.” Usyk follows in Fury’s footsteps
Igor Nekrasov July 14, 2023, 19:00 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
Alexander calls McGregor to fight and is going to clean up the cruiserweight again.
WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk continues to prepare for the fight against Daniel Dubois, which will take place on August 26. Ukrainian boxer and British Tyson Fury could not agree on a unification fight for the title of absolute world champion, as a result, Usyk will meet with Dubois, and Fury will fight former UFC champion Francis Ngannou. This lineup does not suit Alexander, who is still trying to get a meeting with Fury.
“He’s funny. I don’t think about him at all, I just need to face him in the ring. I don’t care about the belt anymore. I need Fury, the WBC title is just a little motivation, but people and fans just need to see how we fight,” BoxingScene quotes Usyk.
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The Fury-Usyk fight is truly one of the most anticipated in modern boxing, the two best heavyweights of our time must find out who is stronger. If both of them win in their next few fights, then there is no doubt that their teams will once again return to the discussion of the unification fight. And Usyk, for his part, has already shared plans for his future career after the fight with Tyson.
“I will go down to cruiserweight, once again become the outright champion, and then I will step down and run for president,” Alexander said in an interview on YouTube Seconds Out.
And if Usyk probably joked about the presidency, then about the return to heavyweight – this is a rather bold statement from a Ukrainian. Usyk is now 36 years old, by the time of the fight with Fury, if it takes place, Oleksandr will already have 37 muscle mass. Going back to weight racing at the end of a race is, of course, a big risk. It is clear that Alexander is one of the best fighters in any weight class, the former all-time cruiserweight world champion, and his return to his native weight will be a milestone in the boxing world. The question is, can he get all the belts back on?
There are now four different champions in this category, which means Usyk will have at least four fights with the best fighters in the division. Whether he is ready at this age for such achievements is a big question. Since he moved up to heavyweight, Alexander has fought four fights, the fight with Dubois will be his fifth. And this is almost four years. With such a frequency of performances, it will be extremely difficult to pick up belts at cruiserweight.
Fighting Fury and returning to heavyweight aren’t the only goals Usyk has set for himself. Apparently picking up on the Brit’s example, Alexander also decided to challenge UFC star Conor McGregor.
“I saw that Conor McGregor was now gaining weight normally. Hey Conor, let’s fill a fight with you at Wembley,” Usyk said.
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If everyone is extremely skeptical of the Fury-Ngannou fight and criticizes Tyson for choosing such an opponent, then in the case of Usyk, this criticism should be doubled, if not tripled. Ngannou is the most dangerous heavyweight in the UFC, whose punch flew against the true monsters of this game. And therefore, even though Francis has no boxing experience, there is still a chance of a lucky break.
In the case of Conor and Usyk, the situation is such that the current holder of three heavyweight boxing belts is challenging an MMA fighter who last competed two years ago at lightweight and is on a three-fight losing streak. straight in their last four fights. Challenging McGregor has long been popular, and the Irishman, who of late specializes more in whiskey, beer and scandal than fights, gets calls about once a month, and from a wide variety of fighters. Conditional Michael Chandler or Charles Oliveira can be understood, they are at least in the same weight class with Conor, and they were going to fight in MMA. But when the holder of three heavyweight belts issues such a challenge and calls McGregor to boxing, it only elicits a wry smile. Conor, while still in more or less optimal shape, was declassed by the 60-pound Floyd Mayweather, who by that time had already been retired for two years. What the current Usyk will do with the current Conor is even scary to imagine.
Regardless, Fury, Conor and the cruiserweight are plans and dreams. But the Ukrainian has a clear task ahead of him: to defend the belts in the fight with Dubois.
