Boxing Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Oleksandr Usyk continues to prove why he is the best of his generation
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The undisputed heavyweight king blasts through any obstacle put in front of him
At 38, just eight fights into the heavyweight chapter of his 12-year pro career, Oleksandr Usyk is finally starting to receive his flowers.
Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs), the 6-foot-3 southpaw from Ukraine, once again traveled to enemy territory last Saturday when he scored a second straight stoppage of Daniel Dubois in front of 96,000 people at Wembley Stadium in Dubois' home city of London. The victory allowed Usyk to become undisputed heavyweight champion for the second time (after he was stripped of his IBF title last year for skipping a mandatory challenger in favor of an immediate rematch with Tyson Fury).
Already a 2012 Olympic gold medalist and the first four-belt, undisputed champion in cruiserweight history, Usyk's one-sided dismantling of a recently rejuvenated Dubois seemed to be the true turning point in the court of public opinion over whether Usyk is approaching status as one of the top 10 heavyweights in boxing history.
