The Usyk built-up cruiserweight and Verhoeven naturally born heavyweight debate is coming up before the fight. People are making a lot about it. But, maybe it shouldn’t be that big an issue. Usyk won Olympic heavyweight honors with the gold medal back in 2012 so it is little wonder he is dealing with heavyweights as […]

The Rico Verhoeven weight advantage over Usyk is very underrated and people are not really aware of it. Skill and heart win fights in boxing but heavyweight is the only division where there’s no limit to weight or weigh in weight needed. Power counts at heavyweight if a heavier fighter leans on his smaller opponent

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