WBA, WBO and IBF world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk admitted that some of his acquaintances did not believe in him on the eve of the first fight against Anthony Joshua.
Today Poland hosted an open training session of the IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. Dmitry Mitrofanov, Daniel Lapin and Fedor Cherkashin also showed their physical form three weeks before the fights.
Confrontation between the WBC, IBF and WBO light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and applicant Callum Smith received a new date. The boxers will meet in the ring on January 13 next year. Information about this was reported by the official Twitter account of the Top Rank promotion company.
Nate Diaz, a former UFC fighter, spoke about the reason for his defeat in a boxing confrontation with Jake Paul. According to Nate, he was injured a month before the fight, so he could not hit hard directly during the fight.
Finnish heavyweight Robert Helenius (32-4, 21 KOs) commented on the announcement of his duel with the former unified division champion Briton Anthony Joshua (25-3, 22 KOs).
Oleksandr Usyk, WBA, IBF, WBO world heavyweight champion, named the top three of his own P4P rating. In the first place in this ranking, he put the absolute world champion in welterweight Terence Crawford. The whole top three looks like this:
Former World Heavyweight Champion Tony Belew spoke about the situation around Dillian Whytewho passed a positive doping test on the eve of a rematch with Anthony Joshua.
Claressa Shields, the absolute world champion, challenged blogger and boxer Jake Paul to an intergender duel. Commenting on the outcome of Jake's fight with Nate Diaz, Claressa noted that the blogger "will also get it." Shields also criticized the level of Jake's boxing.
Former UFC fighter Nate Diaz will receive more for his fight against Jake Paul than for all his fights in the best MMA league in the world. Today, Zach Rosenfeld, who represents the Real Fight Inc promotion (created by Nate Diaz -note) revealed that Nate's contract for this fight was ...