The Usyk Rico nonsense has infuriated people in boxing that the heavyweight champion could take such a liberty.
Oleksandr Usyk this week opted to face a man with just one professional boxing match to his name in his career.
Although is an accomplished kickboxing champion in the form of Rico his opponent.
Some things to note going in this weekend and some bits on both boxers for those new to boxing:
- Egypt has not hosted a major heavyweight title fight before.
- Usyk’s hase done good numbers on pay per view before, this week should be strong because his opponent is so famous.
- Usyk was born in Simferopol, Crimea.
- Verhoeven was born in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands.
- The Pyramids are located at 29.9792 degrees N, 31.1342 degrees E.
The event itself is outstanding but is useful to the sport of boxing due to it being a showcase of the sport to a new audience.
Rico has a large fan base behind him with over 13 million followers alone on Instagram.
The novelty of it being at the Pyramids as well will get a lot of people to tune in and it could well do great numbers of those watching it online.
Due to so many factors.
The undercard has solid fights on it from a boxing point of view.
Rico can’t win against Usyk, well, no one thinks he can, but he can elevate the sport of boxing a lot with his audience around the world tuning in this weekend.
As well as elevate himself as well if he can take the heavyweight champion some rounds and give a good account of himself.
