A possible Agit Kabayel Usyk fight is being considered and Oleksandr Usyk is already in the height of trouble for his next fight.
A turn for the worst for him now is about to happen.
He takes on a man who has one professional boxing match next up later this month, a kickboxer.
Jake Paul at least had eleven professional fights before stepping in with Anthony Joshua recently and Joshua was on the decline as well.
Usyk is not and his opponent Rico has just one pro boxing match. A far bigger mismatch and some were thinking of the pulling the fight recently.
It is just about going ahead but the opponent Rico the kickboxer’s health is in huge danger with the level of the mismatch.
Now a agit Kabayel Usyk fight is being looked at and that would spell the end of Usyk if he took two fights like that, let’s look at a few things known:
- Usyk fights Rico Verhoeven next at the Pyramids.
- Verhoeven has only 1 pro boxing match from 2014.
- Fans already call it a mismatch and circus fight.
- Usyk is 39 and undefeated at 24-0.
- He just beat Fury, Joshua, and Dubois twice.
- Kabayel is WBC interim champ but unproven at elite level.
- Kabayel hasn’t beaten a top-5 heavyweight yet.
- Kabayel says they can sell out a German stadium.
- Usyk wants Wilder, not Kabayel, per earlier in the year reports.
- Fighting Kabayel after Verhoeven looks like two soft defenses.
- Back-to-back non-elite fights kills Usyk’s legacy momentum.
- Media would brand it ducking real challenges for money.
- At 39, the backlash could force Usyk into retirement.
- That’s why many see Kabayel as “the end of Usyk.”
- Boxing is returning to the masses all the time and the matchmaking is excellent, this would go against that twice with Usyk and make him a standout when everyone else is making great fights. He’d be toast with two fights like that back to back.
After Usyk vs Rico this month who knows what fights Usyk will be in next in 2026.
Usyk for now remains in the Boxing News and Views top 10 P4P Boxing Rankings.
