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Analyst Teddy Atlas believes the winning game plan for Tyson Fury to defeat Oleksandr Usyk this Saturday is to stay on the outside, jab, and retreat to prevent his smaller opponent from utilizing his counter-punching on the inside. Atlas feels WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-0-1,…

A fight, a match up that could be viewed as a curiosity fight, or maybe as a bad accident waiting to happen kind of fight, has been announced for the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul card. Tyson and Paul will go at it in the controversial main…

Heavyweight contender Cassius Chaney has confirmed on his FaceBook page how he will be fighting Michael Hunter on June 7th in Hollywood, Florida, and Chaney Vs. Hunter will contest the interim WBA heavyweight title. Of course, everyone knows Oleksandr Usyk is the current WBA heavyweight…

For the longest time, Tyson Fury has been telling us all he is “the greatest heavyweight who ever lived.” Now, perhaps showing a little more restraint, the unbeaten 35 year old says a win over Oleksandr Usyk will make him the greatest ever. Fury fully…

Heavyweight great and the last man to hold undisputed status, Lennox Lewis has given his take on the fast approaching four-belt unification showdown between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk. And Lewis, a self-proclaimed “pugilist specialist,” told RingTV.com that both Fury and Usyk are in “war…

Boxing analyst Paulie Malignaggi believes Vasily Lomachenko will fight Shakur Stevenson next. He feels that a fight can be made. Their promoter, Bob Arum, wants that fight, and he repeatedly mentioned that he hoped to make it next. Malignaggi feels that WBC lightweight champion Stevenson…

Tyson Fury’s promoter, Frank Warren, says IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is a tougher test for his fighter than going into the Deontay Wilder fights. That’s a big compliment by Warren of Usyk because Fury was knocked cold and arguably knocked out in the first…

Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter, Alex Krassyuk, says Tyson Fury’s dramatic weight loss is a result of his nerves for this fight on Saturday night at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Krassyuk feels WBC heavyweight champion Fury knows what he’s up against in fighting the…

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury says he’s occupying unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk’s mind ahead of their undisputed fight on Saturday night in Riyadh. Fans question whether that’s the case. Throughout the buildup, Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs) has tried mind-game tactics that have worked to…