At the end of September, the audience on the boxing day will witness a promising peak match between Anthony Joshua and the challenge of Oleksandr Usyk. This will be the fate of the 4 WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO championship belts that Joshua is holding.
USYK is not a new name of the martial arts village – he is the absolute champion in the Cruiserweight weight level before ranking Heavyweight. But if you are not familiar with the name Oleksandr Usyk, Thethao.vn will provide everything you may not know about Anthony Joshua's opponent.
Oleksandr usyk's profile
Oleksandr Usyk is 34 years old. He was born in Simferopol, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainia on January 17, 1987, having a birth day with Muhammad Ali idol.
In a young age, USYK used to be an amateur player, even playing football for the SC Tavriya Simferopol team. After switching to boxing, he was the most horrific opponent for all boxers in the semi -amateur system with 335 wins and only 15 losses.
There is a special feature that both Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk won gold medals at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Oleksandr usyk won gold in Heavyweight 91kg, and Anthony Joshua won the gold medal in the Super Heavyweight 91kg+.
Professional achievement of Oleksandr Usyk
Oleksandr Usyk is one of the achievements to become the boxing champion with the shortest number of matches – he won the WBO championship against Krzysztof Glowacki with only 10 matches, and just need to add the next 5 matches to gather all the champions and become the absolute champion of the Cruereight class.
USYK currently has 18 winnings. His last match in Cruiserweight is in front of the former champion of the Light Heavyweight – Cruiserweight Tony Bellew in 2018.
Since then, Oleksandr Usyk has beaten two more matches with Chazz Witherspoon and Derek Chisora before Anthony Joshua. Witherspoon only had the 7th half with Usyk, and Derek Chisora, although he was still in 12 rounds, but many times gave up a flexible usyk “Y as a ghost on the floor”.
“USYK is a left -hand truss, extremely mischievous with extremely good technique,” Tyson Fury said about Oleksandr Usyk.
“Usyk may be smaller than Joshua, he is from Cruiserweight. But look at the way Usyk takes Derek Chisora - I think physically, Joshua is inferior than Chirsora. So while I can be sure about defeating Wilder (in the early match in October), I am not sure Joshua can overcome the match against Usyk.”
Also admit that with a smaller body, strength is not the advantage of Usyk against heavy rivals. However, with the technical style, the ability to move flexibly, the ability to launch punches from the unpredictable perspective along with respectable endurance, Usyk will certainly not be “easy rafters” for the defending champion Anthony Joshua.