{"id":8531,"date":"2024-12-24T03:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/boxing-oleksandr-usyk-tyson-fury-daniel-dubois-how-is-heavyweight-division-shaping-up\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T03:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T03:23:58","slug":"boxing-oleksandr-usyk-tyson-fury-daniel-dubois-how-is-heavyweight-division-shaping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/boxing-oleksandr-usyk-tyson-fury-daniel-dubois-how-is-heavyweight-division-shaping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury, Daniel Dubois – how is heavyweight division shaping up?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Usyk’s next fight will largely depend on what happens between Dubois and Parker.<\/p>\n

The two-weight undisputed champion has teased a move back down to cruiserweight, but that seems more a personal desire rather than something which makes the most financial sense.<\/p>\n

Dubois will consider himself the top contender and is desperate to have another crack at Usyk after his loss to the Ukrainian in 2023 was marred by a tight call on a low blow.<\/a><\/p>\n

Should Dubois beat Parker, a fight with Usyk could happen in the summer of 2025. <\/p>\n

Were Parker to win, Dubois might demand a rematch or perhaps even Joshua would emerge as a potential contender considering he beat Parker in 2018.<\/p>\n

And what about retirement for 37-year-old Usyk?<\/p>\n

Speaking on the 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce podcast,<\/a> Anthony Crolla says Usyk has already achieved “immortality” in boxing.<\/p>\n

“He should have put his gloves in the middle of the ring [after beating Fury] and walked away on a massive high,” Crolla said.<\/p>\n

“I think when [Usyk’s] manager spoke, he seemed certain [Usyk] wouldn’t be retiring.<\/p>\n

“I think we’ll see him fighting next year. If he does and Usyk fights Dubois again, he’s expected to win when he’s already stopped him but I think that’s a far harder fight this time.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Usyk’s next fight will largely depend on what happens between Dubois and Parker. The two-weight undisputed champion has teased a move back down to cruiserweight, but that seems more a personal desire rather than something which makes the most financial sense. Dubois will consider himself the top contender and is desperate to have another crack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8533,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions\/8533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}