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WBO President Paco Valcarcel said on Twitter that Anthony Joshua needs to make his mandatory defense against Oleksandr Usyk before taking on Tyson Fury. “Love to see WBO unified champion @anthonyfjoshua fighting WBO former and current WBC champion @Tyson_Fury for the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, but WBO mandatory should be next.”
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Dmitriy Salita continues to expand his Salita Promotions YouTube Channel by reaching an agreement and obtaining a license to display the fight-video library of promoter/trainer Marshall Kauffman’s Kings Promotions. The Kings Promotions library joins the collections of Cedric Kushner’s CKP, Dan Goossen’s America Presents, Gary Shaw Productions and Leon Margules’ Warriors Boxing Promotions.
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Governing bodies can be a pain. AJ would vacate in that situation.
They should ignore these clowns and keep the sanctioning fees that they are giving them
Kinda amazing that Usyk could/will get a [mandatory] title shot [against AJ] that quick regardless of the manipulated rules or rankings. In my opinion, Usyk has not proved to anyone he can bang with a legit heavyweight just yet. Notice I said “legit” heavyweight, not just a cherry-picked tomato can tune-up contender ranked higher than 30. Jumping from Cruiserweight to Heavyweight classes is a vast difference especially when some men can be 230 pounds or heavier and over 6’5″ with real density in their punching power. Maybe a few tune-ups would be smart and build up to a great match up in the heavyweight class. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.
Holyfield was arguably the greatest cruiserweight ever, and it took him three years at heavyweight before he was ready for the title. Usyk would be ruined if he fought AJ now.
They were going to straight up match Holyfield with Tyson before Tyson went to prison. Had Tyson not gone to prison Holyfield would have gotten a chance at the HW title much, much earlier than three years, more like in his first year.
Cubanitovitch is correct. Holyfield v Tyson was first scheduled for November 8 1991. But Tyson was indicted by a grand jury in September of that year and convicted in February 1992. Holyfield’s 1st heavyweight fight was against Quick Tillis on July 16, 1988. Holyfield was Number One contender for 2 years while Tyson was fight the likes of Tubbs, Bruno, Williams etc
Usyk will beat AJ easier than Fury would
Usyk, please report to the front of the line.