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Oleksandr Usyk
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He was the undisputed world heavyweight champion twice in 2024 and 2025 and held the unified heavyweight championship from 2021 until vacating his sanctioning body titles in June 2026, and has held The Ring heavyweight title since 2022. He held the undisputed championship in two weight classes—cruiserweight and heavyweight—and is the…
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entertainment · Ukrainian boxer (born 1987) · professional boxer · boxer · film actor · also Oleksandr Usyk, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk, The Cat, Usyk
Born 17 January 1987 · Q938027
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2026· 35 entries
“I heard Tony Bellew is looking for a fight with the winner of the Muhammad Ali Trophy. I hope he will see me. Tony Bellew are you ready?”
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“The belly button is the line. Anything low of that is a low blow.”
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“t want to become just champion, but undisputed champion. Chisora felt he should have won the fight. He said, “Yeah, 100 percent. I was pushing the pace, I gave a couple of rounds away but I was pushing the pace. But the judges saw it a different way.”
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“This means a lot for me. The fight went the way I expected it to go. There were moments when Anthony pushed me hard but it was nothing special. I had no objective to knock him out because my corner pushed me not to do that. In the beginning, I tried to hit him hard, but then I stuck to my job.”
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“I did what my trainer told me to do. I just follow their orders and that was to box. And I did box but if I had the opportunity, I would take that opportunity.”
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“At this time I have heard that Tony Bellew wants to fight the winner of the Muhammad Ali Trophy. I hope he will see me talking....”
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Published video “Як Усик залякує суперників 😏”.
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Boxing News Online: Evander Holyfield names the knockout artist who could’ve beaten Oleksandr Usyk
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Published video “Usyk vs. Joshua 2 🤩 #onthisday”.
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Mshale: Adam Scott Pure Iron Swing With Slow Motion Oleksandr Usyk (rF5HVbjBM6)
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Mshale: Scotland Captain Andy Robertson Reads A Heartfelt Letter From Rute Cardoso, Wife Of Diogo Jota. Oleksandr Usyk (veaY7CAgi0)
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Yahoo Sports: UFC icon outlines boxing plan as he targets clash with Oleksandr Usyk rival
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Mshale: 🚨 HEAT TRADE FOR GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO! Oleksandr Usyk (03rFL8obMq)
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Mshale: England V Argentina | FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 | Match Highlights Oleksandr Usyk (WvXmlE11kM)
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Mshale: 8CB A Story Of Numbers Maths New A - DAY 2 WORKOUT Oleksandr Usyk (v6vOwjLKrx)
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Mshale: Leah Matthews And Olivia Lowe Crowned Kent Young Chefs Of 2017 Oleksandr Usyk (3QNAI6VkRf)
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Yahoo Sports: Jon Jones reportedly considered as potential foe for Oleksandr Usyk’s last fight
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Mshale: Day In The Life: Anthony Joshua TRAINING WITH Oleksandr Usyk For Kristian Prenga Fight! Strasbourg (w7GG9QWAZI)
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Published video “Mode: Champion🔥 #usyk”.
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Published video “Back to work #usyk”.
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Published video “#onthisday Olympic Gold Medal and legendary dance 🥇 #usyk”.
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Published video “Feeling beat and punches😎 #usyk”.
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Published video “How Usyk prayed for AJ 🙏🏼🫂”.
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Public attention spiked: 22,116 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.8× the usual 3,269, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life it, WP:FORMAL
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Published video “Usyk about AJ fight and Greedy Belly”.
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Published video “Usyk’s reaction to knockout by Joshua”.
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Published video “God willing🙏🏼 #usyk #joshua”.
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Public attention spiked: 10,674 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 3,269, with 8 article edits. Coverage that week: “Oleksandr Usyk vacates heavyweight title belts but insists he is not retiring” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Oleksandr Usyk vacates heavyweight title belts but insists he is not retiring
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The Guardian: Rico Verhoeven seeks rematch with Oleksandr Usyk after contentious stoppage
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Public attention spiked: 22,462 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.9× the usual 3,269, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: As per, Wikipedia:WikiProject Boxing/MOSGuidelines under notes, "This field is for listing details such as titles at stake; why a fight was ruled a no contest,
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The Guardian: Oleksandr Usyk to defend title against kickboxer at Pyramids of Giza in Egypt
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In 2026 Usyk relaunched his Usyk17 Promotions, a Ukrainian boxing promotion company he founded in 2020, whose operations were interrupted by the war in Ukraine.
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Usyk relaunched his Usyk17 Promotions, a Ukrainian boxing promotion company he founded in 2020, whose operations were interrupted by the war in Ukraine
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2025· 10 entries
The Guardian: Oleksandr Usyk ordered to defend WBO heavyweight title against Joseph Parker
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The Guardian: Oleksandr Usyk wraps Ukraine’s flag around himself and his fists around Daniel Dubois | Barney Ronay
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The Guardian: ‘Thirty-eight is a young guy’: Oleksandr Usyk mocks his critics after victory
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The Guardian: Oleksandr Usyk v Daniel Dubois: undisputed heavyweight championship – as it happened
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The Guardian: Daniel Lapin, Ukraine’s next big boxing hope, on Usyk bonds after Russia ‘broke’ early career
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The Guardian: Cherished champion and statesman: Usyk focuses on Ukraine before titles
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Awarded IBF World Heavyweight Champion (2025).
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The Guardian: Daniel Dubois dismisses Oleksandr Usyk’s ‘mind games’ before showdown
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The Guardian: ‘My chance for revenge’: Daniel Dubois to fight Oleksandr Usyk at Wembley
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Usyk participated in a charity football match in Portugal on 15 September 2025.
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2024· 5 entries
Awarded Sugar Ray Robinson Award (2024).
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Awarded WBC World Heavyweight Champion (2024).
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Awarded The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year (2024).
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Awarded Ali–Frazier Award (2024).
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And 2025 and held the unified heavyweight championship from 2021 until vacating his sanctioning body titles in June 2026, and has held The Ring heavyweight title since 2022
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2023· 1 entry
Usyk signed a one-year professional contract with Ukrainian Premier League team FC Polissya Zhytomyr
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2022· 3 entries
Awarded The Ring World Heavyweight Champion (2022).
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However, in September 2022 Usyk said that Crimea "was, is and will be" Ukrainian, and that it had been taken away forcefully from Ukraine.
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Before Usyk became undisputed champion
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2021· 7 entries
Won the IBO Heavyweight World Champion with Boxing Men (2021).
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Won the WBA Heavyweight World Champion with Boxing Men (2021).
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Awarded WBA World Heavyweight Champion (2021).
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Awarded WBO World Heavyweight Champion (2021).
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Awarded IBF World Heavyweight Champion (2021).
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Awarded IBO World Heavyweight Champion (2021).
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Usyk defeated unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to win the WBA, IBF, and WBO titles
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2020· 1 entry
Usyk became a postgraduate student in the Psychology Department of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, receiving his master's degree
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2018· 12 entries
Won the WBA Cruiserweight World Champion with Boxing Men (2018).
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Awarded WBA World Cruiserweight Champion (2018).
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Awarded The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year (2018).
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Awarded Sugar Ray Robinson Award (2018).
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Awarded The Ring World Cruiserweight Champion (2018).
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Awarded WBC World Cruiserweight Champion (2018).
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Awarded IBF World Cruiserweight Champion (2018).
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And be for the undisputed cruiserweight championship
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At the conclusion of the World Boxing Super Series tournament, Usyk became the first Ukrainian undisputed champion in history
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“Olympic [stadium], thanks. People, countrymen and those who supported. Moscow 2018. Bang! Daddy”
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“We need to put goals in front of us and move towards them,”
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“I have been doing this for 20 years, and it is over.”
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2017· 2 entries
“I feel happy and inspired with the idea of such a tournament. I”
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“I will keep this trophy at a special place in my home because my beloved wife, Katarina, has already prepared a special place for it,”
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded WBO World Junior Heavyweight Champion (2016).
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Said that he often visits family in Crimea; that he does not like to talk politics due to the fact that people take words out of context; that in Russia he has many fans; and that he does not wish to divide people, "b
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2014· 1 entry
Was not ranked by any sanctioning body despite his experience as a long-time Glory Heavyweight Champion
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2013· 1 entry
— Individual standings for the 2012–2013 WSB season
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Simferopol (2012).
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1987· 1 entry
Born 1987-01-17.
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