Oleksandr Usyk's undefeated streak continues, leaving a trail of defeated British heavyweights in his wake.
Usyk is still undefeated after 22 fights. No other fighter in recent history has been so problematic for the hopes of British heavyweight boxing than Oleksandr Usyk . Since leaving the cruiserweight division undisputed and undefeated in 2019, the Ukrainian has laid to waste every challenger he has faced from these shores – an extraordinary list of fighters who have tried and failed to solve the puzzle that is Usyk .
Derek Chisora was first up in what was the former Olympian’s second fight in boxing’s blue-riband division. Anthony Joshua, then WBO, WBA and IBF champion, welcomed him as a mandatory challenger in 2021 and was outclassed from the opening bell as Usyk was crowned a two-weight world champion. A year later, after Joshua promised to ‘take Usyk’s soul’ in their rematch, he was left broken and scrambling back to square one after another defeat. A desperate in-ring meltdown after the final bell illustrated the depths of the disorientation and despair Usyk had drowned him in. Daniel Dubois had his chance, flooring Usyk with the body shot that was deemed an illegal low blow in the summer of 2023 in Poland. It wasn’t taken, with the champion suffocating the Londoner with crisp, incisive shots that eventually put him down. Tyson Fury was convinced he would change things. But against the man he belittled as a ‘middleweight’, he was rocked from pillar to post, left staggering in a beaten daze in a breathtaking ninth round in Saudi last May. Beaten for the first time in his career, ‘The Gypsy King’ watched on as Usyk was crowned the division’s first undisputed heavyweight champion in 25 years. That collection of scalps doesn’t even mention the knockout of Tony Bellew, his final fight at cruiserweight that retired the Liverpudlian. ‘I was spent, I was absolutely exhausted. I didn’t remember anything of round eight,’ Bellew later recalle
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