A proper look at the Usyk record before he steps in there with Rico in their heavyweight title fight at the Pyramids.
This weekend is a crossover fight and showcase fight for boxing at an iconic world destination that sees boxing and kickboxing come together as sports.
With a kickboxer in Rico challenging Usyk the undisputed heavyweight champion in a mismatch in boxing where most give Rico no chance, but, it still gets new audience for boxing and has a solid undercard as well.
It is important to remember these things on the Usyk record going in this weekend for new fans of boxing and to put in perspective the level of the mismatch here:
- Usyk’s amateur record is 335 wins and 15 losses.
- Usyk’s pro boxing record is 24-0-15KO
- Usyk won gold at the 2011 World Championships.
- Usyk won gold at the 2012 Olympics.
- Usyk turned professional in 2013.
- Usyk won his first world title in his 10th fight.
- Usyk unified the cruiserweight division before moving up to heavyweight.
- Usyk moved to heavyweight in 2019.
- Usyk is 7-0 at heavyweight.
- Usyk has a 62.5 percent knockout ratio.
- Usyk has never fought in Africa as a professional.
- Usyk has fought in the United States, UK, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
- Usyk’s longest layoff between fights is 11 months.
- Usyk has fought 206 professional rounds.
The above are all very important statistics to take into account of his latest heavyweight title fight this weekend.
Against a man who has just had one professional boxing match but is an accomplished kickboxing champion.
Kickboxing and professional boxing are obviously different sports though.
Different stances, different guards often for parrying defensive moves in both sports as well.
Usyk is undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world at the end of the day and will be a far more skilled boxer than his opponent this weekend.
The card itself however should be very entertaining.
