{"id":69123,"date":"2024-05-17T16:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road"},"modified":"2024-05-17T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:22:19","slug":"usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road","title":{"rendered":"Usyk looking for heavyweight legacy on Fury road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Oleksandr Usyk may be the reigning WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight world champion \u2013 but to many, the Ukrainian is the underdog going into Saturday\u2019s long-awaited unifying title fight with Tyson Fury in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>Size matters, it seems, with southpaw Usyk conceding 15 centimetres (cm) in height to the 2.06 metre Fury, 18cm in reach and close to 22 kilogrammes in weight. But Usyk is not perturbed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo win this, I don\u2019t need to be heavy, I need to be fast, and quick,\u201d Usyk told Ring magazine in February just before the Fury fight was postponed after the Briton picked up a cut in training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never see a fat wolf in the forest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to see Usyk as the lean wolf, cunning, quick and ruthlessly effective. His perfect record of 21 wins and no defeats as a professional, 14 of those inside the distance, speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from those three heavyweight belts, he can also look back on a career that brought him Olympic gold in London in 2012, and the undisputed cruiserweight championship of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the undoubted pedigree in the ring, he also has the fire within that a boxer desperately needs when he has reached the comfort of the mountaintop. The war in Ukraine, which followed Russia\u2019s invasion in February 2022, has ensured that.<\/p>\n<p>It gave Usyk an extra dimension when he faced Anthony Joshua in Jeddah in August that year, almost a year after he had taken the Briton\u2019s titles in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the ninth round, I realised that if I fall now, the spirit of the fighters who defend our country will also fall,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t box for myself, I boxed for all those who defend the country.\u201d Eighteen months on from that fight, the Russians continue to wage war on Ukraine, adding fuel to the Usyk fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Oleksandr Usyk may be the reigning WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight world champion \u2013 but to many, the Ukrainian is the underdog going into Saturday\u2019s long-awaited unifying title fight with Tyson Fury in Riyadh. Size matters, it seems, with southpaw Usyk conceding 15 centimetres (cm) in height to the 2.06 metre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":69122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-69123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Usyk looking for heavyweight legacy on Fury road - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oleksandr Usyk may be the reigning WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight world champion \u2013 but to many, the Ukrainian is the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Usyk looking for heavyweight legacy on Fury road\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oleksandr Usyk may be the reigning WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight world champion \u2013 but to many, the Ukrainian is the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-17T16:07:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-17T16:22:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2024\/05\/sm_1715950280.352569.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"479\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Usyk looking for heavyweight legacy on Fury road\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-17T16:07:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-17T16:22:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road\"},\"wordCount\":331,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2024\/05\/sm_1715950280.352569.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/usyk-looking-for-heavyweight-legacy-on-fury-road\",\"name\":\"Usyk looking for heavyweight legacy on Fury road - 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