Oleksandr Usyk vs. Anthony Joshua II | DAZN - August 20, 2022

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Stats and Stakes

Oleksandr Usyk

Age: 35
Title: IBF/WBA/WBO/IBO heavyweight (2021-Present, 1st Defense)
Previous Titles: WBO Cruiserweight (2016-19, 6 Defenses); WBC Cruiserweight (2018-19, 2 Defenses); Lineal/TBRB/Ring/WBA/IBF Cruiserweight (2018-19, 1 Defense)
Height: 6’3
Weight: 221.5 lbs.
Stance: Southpaw
Hails from: Shypyntsi, Ukraine
Record: 19-0, 13 KO (25-0, 15 KO including World Series of Boxing fights)
Press Rankings: #1 (TBRB, Ring, BoxRec), #2 (ESPN)
Record in Title Fights: 8-0, 3 KO
Last Five Opponents: 150-15-1 (.907)
Notable Outcomes, TBRB and/or Ring Rated Foes: Krzysztof Glowacki UD12; Marco Huck TKO10; Mairis Briedis MD12; Murat Gassiev UD12; Anthony Joshua UD12
Additional Current/Former Titlists Faced: Tony Bellew TKO8

vs.

Anthony Joshua

Age: 32
Current Titles: None
Previous Titles: IBF heavyweight (2016-19, 6 Defenses; 19-21, 1 Defense); WBA heavyweight (2017-19, 3 Defenses; 19-21, 1 Defense); WBO heavyweight (2018-19, 1 Defense; 19-21, 1 Defense); IBO heavyweight (2017-19, 3 Defenses; 19-21, 1 Defense)
Height: 6’6
Weight: 244.5 lbs.
Stance: Orthodox
Hails from: Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Record: 24-2, 22 KO, 1 KOBY
Press Rankings: #2 (TBRB, Ring), #3 (BoxRec), #4 (ESPN)
Record in Major Title Fights: 9-2, 7 KO, 1 KOBY
Last Five Opponents: 145-4 (.973)
Notable Outcomes, TBRB and/or Ring Rated Foes: Charles Martin KO2; Dominic Breazeale TKO7; Wladimir Klitschko TKO11; Carlos Takam TKO10; Joseph Parker UD12; Alexander Povetkin TKO7; Andy Ruiz TKO by 7, UD12; Kubrat Pulev KO9; Oleksandr Uyk L12
Additional Current/Former Titlists Faced: None

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Live from King Abdullah Sport City Stadium - Jeddah, KSA
Matchroom Boxing, K2 Promotions & USYK17 Promotions Presents: Rage on the Red Sea

Time: 3 pm (UK time)
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Running Order

*Fight card subject to change.

Live on Facebook| Youtube: 3 pm

4 Round Super-Welterweight Bout
Rashed Belhasa vs. Traycho Georgiev

Followed by

8 Round Light-Heavyweight Bout
Daniel Lapin vs. Jozef Jurko

Followed by

6 Round Light-Heavyweight Bout
Ben Whittaker vs. Petar Nosic

Followed by

8 Round Heavyweight Bout
Andrew Tabiti vs. James Wilson

Live on Sky Sports Box Office | DAZN: 6 pm UK | 1 pm ET | 10 am PT

8 Round Super-Bantamweight Bout
Ramla Ali vs. Crystal Garcia Nova

Followed by

4 Round Super-Lightweight Bout
Ziyad Almaayouf vs. Jose Alatorre

Followed by

10 Round Cruiserweight Bout
Badou Jack vs. Richard Rivera

Followed by

Live Musical Performance

Followed by

12 Round Final WBC Light-Heavyweight Title Eliminator
Callum Smith vs. Mathieu Bauderlique

Followed by

12 Round Final IBF Heavyweight Title Eliminator
Filip Hrgovic vs. Zhang Zhilei

Main Event

Unified WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO & Vacant Ring Magazine World Championships
Oleksandr Usyk vs. Anthony Joshua

Live Floater

6 Round Lightweight Bout
Bader Samreen vs. Fuad Tarverdi

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[apollo creed]

I'm rooting for AJ. He's taking all risky fights.

[Thomastearns]

I'm rooting for AJ. He's taking all risky fights.

He keeps busy too.

If any one fighter has kept the division alive these past 5/6 years, it's AJ.

If anyone has helped the rest to earn big purses, it's AJ.

As Chisora pointed out, AJ is the one that brings the money.

"AJ better win. The whole nation is counting on him. We need him to win. You don't get it. We need him to win. If he don't win it means your paycheque goes down."


Let's face it, the main reason Usyk is taking this fight is the money.

Anthony Joshua has been good for boxing in the post Mayweather era. Floyd was little more than a parasite. Fury too, with his constant retirements and surrendering of belts when it suited him.

Anthony Joshua needs to be credited for making boxing exciting and entertaining again for the mainstream, and if he wins, he will be.

There will be an awful lot of people watching tonight.

[tiny_acres]

I'm rooting for AJ. He's taking all risky fights.

He keeps busy too.

If any one fighter has kept the division alive these past 5/6 years, it's AJ.

If anyone has helped the rest to earn big purses, it's AJ.

As Chisora pointed out, AJ is the one that brings the money.

"AJ better win. The whole nation is counting on him. We need him to win. You don't get it. We need him to win. If he don't win it means your paycheque goes down."


Let's face it, the main reason Usyk is taking this fight is the money.

Anthony Joshua has been good for boxing in the post Mayweather era. Floyd was little more than a parasite. Fury too, with his constant retirements and surrendering of belts when it suited him.

Anthony Joshua needs to be credited for making boxing exciting and entertaining again for the mainstream, and if he wins, he will be.

There will be an awful lot of people watching tonight.

Usyk will win this. Joshua will not be able to overcome the difference in skill.

[Thomastearns]

I'm rooting for AJ. He's taking all risky fights.

He keeps busy too.

If any one fighter has kept the division alive these past 5/6 years, it's AJ.

If anyone has helped the rest to earn big purses, it's AJ.

As Chisora pointed out, AJ is the one that brings the money.

"AJ better win. The whole nation is counting on him. We need him to win. You don't get it. We need him to win. If he don't win it means your paycheque goes down."


Let's face it, the main reason Usyk is taking this fight is the money.

Anthony Joshua has been good for boxing in the post Mayweather era. Floyd was little more than a parasite. Fury too, with his constant retirements and surrendering of belts when it suited him.

Anthony Joshua needs to be credited for making boxing exciting and entertaining again for the mainstream, and if he wins, he will be.

There will be an awful lot of people watching tonight.

Usyk will win this. Joshua will not be able to overcome the difference in skill.

Joshua was once touted as the best ever.
However he is still a good all round heavyweight.

He's got reach, height, power, decent movement, and
a good attitude.

His problem here is that he might be up against one of the best ever.

Usyk has also not received the credit he's due.

Far too many people have fallen for the devious shenanigans of a certain 'Gypsy King' who's quietly and craftily pocketed some of the largest purses in the sport.

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

He keeps busy too.

If any one fighter has kept the division alive these past 5/6 years, it's AJ.

If anyone has helped the rest to earn big purses, it's AJ.

As Chisora pointed out, AJ is the one that brings the money.

"AJ better win. The whole nation is counting on him. We need him to win. You don't get it. We need him to win. If he don't win it means your paycheque goes down."


Let's face it, the main reason Usyk is taking this fight is the money.

Anthony Joshua has been good for boxing in the post Mayweather era. Floyd was little more than a parasite. Fury too, with his constant retirements and surrendering of belts when it suited him.

Anthony Joshua needs to be credited for making boxing exciting and entertaining again for the mainstream, and if he wins, he will be.

There will be an awful lot of people watching tonight.

Usyk will win this. Joshua will not be able to overcome the difference in skill.

Joshua was once touted as the best ever.
However he is still a good all round heavyweight.

He's got reach, height, power, decent movement, and
a good attitude.

His problem here is that he might be up against one of the best ever.

Usyk has also not received the credit he's due.

Far too many people have fallen for the devious shenanigans of a certain 'Gypsy King' who's quietly and craftily pocketed some of the largest purses in the sport.

- 40% for the Deyonce trilogy compared to the $75 mil he would've got vs AJ that Eddie moved heaven and hell to make.

Usyk being a MAN among men was willing to take that fight, and the rest is some of the greatest boxing history still in the making.

Fury can stew in his ill begotten MTK earnings til time freezes over, a blubbered mouse among MEN

[Jack 1000]

The politics of boxing with Eddie Hearn in command will make it very difficult for Usyk to win a decision. If AJ loses, he is done. Steve Grey is the UK judge and he has given rounds to UK fighters just for breathing. Glen Feldman had Keith Thurman ridiculously beating Pacquiao. and Victor Fesechko, the Ukrainian who worked the first fight.

If it goes to the cards, Grey will go 117-111 AJ as long as he is still standing at the end, and is not forced into assigning 10-8 rounds for Usyk. Victor Fesechko will probably go the same way for Usyk 117-111, and Feldman goes 115-113 for AJ when 116-112 for Usyk would be the most fair score.

With Hearn involved on the cards for this rematch, the best Usyk gets is a draw.

Jack

[HomicideHenry]

I wouldn't necessarily be kissing AJ's butt considering Usyk is pretty much the only great challenge that he has had. AJ never fought Wilder or Fury. He's already previously lost to Ruiz who he never should have lost to. Whether people want to admit it or not AJ basically took a softer road than Fury did.

He was such a heavy favorite against Usyk in the first fight, largely on the basis of the Ukrainian's performance against Chisora. Very few people, myself included, thought the cruiserweight would give AJ much problems.

We all kind of rolled our eyes at the match initially because it was seen largely as just another mandatory that got in the way of making an undisputed fight between Fury and Joshua. Joshua took the man lightly, and Usyk demonstrated that he was far better than people thought.

While I give Joshua credit for jumping back straight into rematches rather than taking other fights, let's make no mistake about it that his losses arguably should never have happened just like Lennox Lewis's losses should have never happened.

As for my prediction, if Joshua does not get the Ukrainian out of there inside of five rounds he's going to be in a world of hurt because I fully expect Joshua to be more aggressive and such a tactic is only going to make him gassed and take longer to recover and it will be in those moments that the Ukrainian will be merciless. I don't know why but I have round eight plus or minus around in mind for Usyk to win by TKO.

[JxhDel.]

Respect to Alatorre for entering with "Jefe De Jefes" in Saudi Arabia..

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Ring walks.

[lazboy]

Boxrec was bugging out for me massively. Excited for this one! AJ coming out.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Boxrec was bugging out for me massively. Excited for this one! AJ coming out.

Yeh I think some have given up on it tonight. Seems okay ish now.

[Mexi-Box]

Sad for Zhang. I had him winning against Hrgovic. Both dudes looked like the #1 and #2 HWs fighting. Zhang is a problem.

[JxhDel.]

Another banger with Mundo, waiting for him to stand toe-to-toe against Beterbiev, what a battle of freaks.

Hrgovic 114 - 113, he was in a deep crisis when Zhilei caught him and also took a KD, but won by being fresher.

[squiggy]

Go Usyk go

[Jeff_lacy_ko]

Joshua by ko

[lazboy]

Boxrec was bugging out for me massively. Excited for this one! AJ coming out.

Yeh I think some have given up on it tonight. Seems okay ish now.

Yea seems fine now. Enjoy the fight mate!

[lazboy]

Joshua by ko

early?

[Mexi-Box]

Getting butterflies. I'd be gutted if Usyk loses.

[lazboy]

Getting butterflies. I'd be gutted if Usyk loses.

same.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Getting butterflies. I'd be gutted if Usyk loses.

same.

X3

[Jeff_lacy_ko]

Joshua by ko

early?

Rd 4 or 5
I think he is really aggressive early