Usyk used his fast feet to wear out Dereck Chisora. His next task it to do the same against Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury
By Jason Langendorf for The Queensberry Rules
Eleven years ago, David Haye challenged Nikolai Valuev in Nuremberg in a heavyweight title fight that represented the greatest size disparity in modern boxing. Valuev stood at 7ft 2in tall and weighed in at 22st 8lb. Haye, a former cruiserweight, who had blown himself up to a career-high 15st 8lb for the challenge, still gave away nine inches and seven stone to “the
Russian Giant”.
“When I envisaged winning the heavyweight title it was against someone big, obviously, but not this big,” said Haye. But on the night, he took Valuev’s belt, quite literally
boxing circles around his lumbering opponent for a majority decision. The David-beats-Goliath headlines wrote themselves.