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Former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver feels that Saturday’s fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk could come down to conditioning and aggression. Although Tarver is impressed with how lean WBC champion Fury looks after his weight loss, but he thinks IBF/WBA/WBO champ Usyk (21-0,…

This Saturday, the undisputed heavyweight champion will be crowned, barring a draw, when undefeated foes Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk meet in the ring. It’s been a long winding road to get to this point, but at least we have the best two heavies on…

Lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson is backing Terence Crawford to beat Canelo Alvarez when or if that fight happens between them. Stevenson trained in the same gym as former three-division world champion Crawford and knows what he can do inside the ring. Shakur feels he’s got…

Tyson Fury looked bad today, laying chicken egg on stage during his final press conference of his undisputed heavyweight championship. During the head-to-head with IBF/WBA/WBO champion Usyk during the face-off Fury meekly faced away from the apex predator Usyk, facing the media in the audience…

British heavyweight Derek Chisora expects WBC champion Tyson Fury to attack IBF/WBA/WBO champ Oleksandr Usyk’s body while in the clinch on Saturday night. Fury’s Body Shot Strategy The 6’9″ Fury isn’t going to want to attack Usyk’s body and risk getting hit when he’s standing…

Saudi Arabian mover and shaker Turki Alalshikh has already given the sport he loves so much a number of mega-fights, and mega-cards. And the run doesn’t look like coming to an end any time soon. Alalshikh, speaking on The MMA Hour just a couple of…

It looks as though we can look forward to another big fight card in Japan. News has come that tells us that recently crowned WBC bantamweight champion Junto Nakatini, a three-weight world ruler, will make his maiden title defence at 118 pounds, this against WBC…

As fight fans are aware, only three men have thus far in this great sport of ours been able to win gold at cruiserweight and at heavyweight: Evander Holyfield, David Haye, and Oleksandr Usyk. Many others have tried, but have failed. It’s the biggest…

Some of us might prefer to simply ignore the foolish actions of John Fury, or at least try to. The father of Tyson Fury again caused a ruckus ahead of a big fight, this week slinging a nasty headbutt at a young-looking, somewhat diminutive member…