The Usyk Rico mismatch is the biggest underdog against a champion in boxing history, maybe even in sports history. The Usyk Rico mismatch is far beyond Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson. Or Jake Paul’s chances against Anthony Joshua even not long ago on Netflix. The Usyk Rico mismatch is next level. Some things to bare […]

There has been a lot of Usyk Rico criticism on the fight itself not of Rico but mostly at champion Oleksandr Usyk. Well he’s the undisputed heavyweight champion and he’s picked a guy that has only ever had one professional boxing match as his opponent this weekend. Sure, Rico is a kickboxing champion and will

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

Rico Verhoeven can’t win title against Usyk this weekend, that’s a given, but he can do a lot though and for his sport. His courage as a kickboxer to get in there at the highest level of professional boxing is evident. He is a big name worldwide with his 13 million Instagram followers and he

The Usyk Rico crossover fight brings a lot of new kickboxing audience and combat sports audience to boxing but there’s more to it. Anything that expands the professional boxing product to new audience and markets is a good thing and welcome. But there has to be a balance. It can’t be at the expense of

This week in big time boxing is one of the few times where boxing vs kickboxing meet in Usyk vs Rico. For the undisputed heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Sure, there’s many MMA and UFC fighters that continue to move to professional boxing all the time. And we’ve seen Mayweather do exhibition’s against well

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