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EPISODE: Episode 4
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He reigned as the undisputed cruiserweight champion from 2018 until he vacated his titles in 2019, being the first cruiserweight in history to hold all four major world championships—the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles.
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Hello, everyone welcome once again to another excellent episode of knuckle up with mike war at four on talk and fight, coming to you from our studios to your living room to your ipad, to your phone, which i’m surprised, isn’t ringing by the way.
No, no, no! I turned it off too.
Okay, all right.
What are we talking about today? We are talking about alexander usak.
Ah, yes, that’s right.
Okay, guys, i know, he’s not a prospect, but he is a heavyweight prospect because he’s made that move because he’s made that move to the heavyweights honestly he’s honestly he’s a great fighter man.
He reigned as the undisputed cruiserweight champion from 2018 uh until he vacated his titles in 2019.
Being the first cruiserweight in history to hold all four major world championships.
User is the most recent mailboxer to simultaneously hold them titled since terence crawford in 2017, and the only uh the fourth in history to do so after crawford.
You know jermaine taylor, bernard hopkins and he’s the first ukrainian undisputed champion he’s particularly notable for his speed of his accomplishments, winning his first world title in his 10th fight and becoming the undisputed champion in that weight class by his 15th.
Now he made this jump with a heavyweight and everybody’s worried about it, but since his jump to heavyweight he has won both of those fights one by a stoppage and one by unanimous decision, and i believe his last fight was for the uh.
I want to say the wbo: yes, the wbo intercontinental the intercontinental heavy title, which is putting him in line to fight the guys like joshua or fury uh, before the fury and joshua fight got underway.
Uh joshua was talking about fighting hussek, which you know, i think is gon na, be a good fight honestly, this guy, a lot of people, would believe that you know his jump to heavyweight.
It wasn’t the greatest move, but believe me, people.
He won gold at the 2012 olympics for fighting as a heavyweight, so he has the experience he’s bounced around through weight classes, his entire amateur career.
So the fact that people are doubting that he would do well in the heavyweights because of his height and his size.
I don’t think it’s really much of an issue to him.
Man he’s gon na have good things about being a little smaller he’s going to have the speed, and maybe the stamina, to be able to outlast these guys and box him in a 12-round match.
But what i love about this guy and – and i don’t even know like – i can’t believe i even read the thing right, but as an amateur um, he retired from his amateur boxing career with a an astonishing record of 335 wins and 15 losses.
Wow wow yeah, 335 wins and 15 losses and as as a heavyweight, he has some notable wins.
Man um.
You know the ukraine national championship, he won it.
One gold is a heavyweight um in the world cup 2008 in moscow.
He won the silver as a heavyweight world championships heavyweight heavyweight.
You know two years in 2011, 2009 he’s, you know, wins gold at the olympics has a heavyweight.
So honestly, i don’t believe he’s he’s going to be.
You know outclassed too much in the in boxing sure they might have some height on him, but if he gets inside and he gets stays inside man he’s got that knockout power man he’s got the ability to put these guys away.
I think we’re gon na see some there’s nothing scheduled for him to fight yet uh.
He was coming off.
His last fight, i believe, was the end of december um or might have been, might have been october and uh yeah.
We i’m hoping we get to see him in the ring sooner man.
He he wants the title fights man he wants joshua, he was, he was saying, give me the give me the fight for joshua, so that fury and wilder can get underway.
You know, and all this kind of stuff we’ll see what happens.
Man honestly guys keep watching over alexander who’s sick he’s a heavyweight now he’s going to do some damage he’s walked away from his cruiserweight titles.
You know, how do you do that? You just you just vacate it i’m out of here, i’m done with cruiserweights.
I’Ve got nothing more to prove, and now he just wants to step up fight these heavyweights, and you know you know, bang some gloves man, you know he’s got a great record.
You know he’s he’s, he’s a champ and he’s 18-0 with 13 knockouts.
You know he’s he’s six three.
So realistically a lot of people saying that you know he the height thing might be a difference.
He might be a little smaller guy, but you know some of these guys are still the same height as him man.
You know six, five, six six! You know six, seven, six, nine! You might have a problem with that with maybe the reach, but he’s got the power he’s got to know how he’s got the ability to box as a heavyweight so guys be on the lookout for this guy to start making some serious headway in the heavyweight division.
Trust me, i want to tell you this man, the guy is experienced as a heavyweight boxer and, if you doubt his fact, you’re just it’s ridiculous man come on he’s already a highly decorated heavyweight as an amateur, and you know he’s he showed that he has the Ability to jump these weight classes guys, don’t count him out he’s going to be a big contender, you’re going to see big things.
What honestly, in the heavyweight division right now, the fury and joshua thing is holding up everything right who second joe joyce might have to bang gloves you know, we’ve got, we’ve got all these fights that are in the making, but we’re waiting for the joshua fury fight To happen, we need to get this fight to happen.
These guys need to.
I don’t know how many more days they have left on this 30-day um land land deal thing they have.
I don’t know how many days are left on them, but they get like stop.
Man, the anticipation is killing the entire boxing world.
People get the deal done, stop sitting on your asses, sign the fn papers and let’s get this fight underway, so we can get the heavyweight division moving along, which is you know the most exciting division that everybody says in the world of boxing which i have.
I have my doubts about that because there are some other exciting fights out there and you know they’re, always the smaller guys but fight fans get behind me.
Man, let’s you know, stand behind this guy usak you’re gon na love, watching this guy fight he’s a heavyweight trust me.
I love watching him.
He’S a great fighter.
Go check him out he’s a champion already soon to be a heavyweight champion.
Already is an interim or intercontinental interim champion already he’s going to be.
You know, fighting these big names soon.
This is what we need to see guys get behind.
Watch him look out for the man.
That’S all i got to say today.
It’S your boy mike or at four with knuckle up, graham thanks again guys out there tune in tomorrow for female friday.
I have a wonderful woman for you guys to talk to, and next week thursday we will be talking to our boy, travon lawson, so make sure you guys tune in thursday set a reminder check out this one-on-one interview, we’re gon na have with travon lawson man is Hard-Working he is hungry guys you got to get behind this man.
Trust me you’ll want to tune in to see this interview guys.
It’S your boy, michael r4, we’ll see you tomorrow for female friday.
Knuckle up all right, see you tomorrow, yeah
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