On August 26, in the Polish town of Wroclaw, a boxing match for the WBA Super heavyweight title will take place between Ukrainian Alexander Usik and Briton Daniel Dubois.
The Ukrainian athlete has been in professional boxing since 2013 and has never left the ring defeated. His opponent is no slouch either. Dubois lost only one out of 20 fights.
Now the entire boxing world is paying close attention to the preparations for this fight. Boxing legend Mike Tyson, 57, also continues to follow modern competitions. The former world champion made his prediction for the fight between Usik and Dubois, joking about the Briton.
“I’ve never seen Dubois in the ring before. Therefore, in this pair I will bet on the champion Usik,” Tyson said.
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The world’s boxing tops last week displaced Alexander Usik from the first place in the pound-for-pound ranking (it includes all professional boxers performing in different categories). The Ukrainian boxer has been in first place on the list of the best boxers on the planet since May 2022. Now the leader of the herd ranking is American Terence Crawford, and Japanese Naoya Inoue is in second place.
British boxer Daniel Dubois, nicknamed Dynamite, is preparing very seriously for the upcoming fight and is ready to take his championship titles from Usik: “I’m one hundred percent ready, ready to fight. We’re going to bring the titles home, they’re coming with me. It’s definitely my time. Yes, Usyk was a great champion, but, as I said, everything has an end. His “toe” must go. I have to surpass him in everything. I’m younger and stronger and I’ll give this guy hell. I was born for this”.
Usyk is also not wasting any time and is actively gaining muscle mass for the upcoming fight, since his opponent is much larger than him. Boxing fans reacted emotionally to Usik’s new photo on social networks. In the photo, a bare-chested boxer holds a basketball in his hands during training. He looks bigger than usual.
Previously, Usik was also supposed to have a championship fight with WBC title holder Briton Tyson Fury, but the fight fell through because the parties could not agree on the terms of the contract. Usik, after a press conference in London, challenged Irish fighter Conor McGregor to a fight: “I saw that Conor McGregor gained a lot of weight. Hey Conor, why don’t we do the fight at Wembley?”