Boxing Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Oleksandr Usyk overtakes Naoya Inoue, Terence Crawford for top spot
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The new undisputed heavyweight king has built one of the best resumes in the sport
Considering how difficult it is to even make the top 10 of boxing's pound-for-pound list as a heavyweight, it makes everything that Oleksandr Usyk has accomplished all the more incredible.
Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs), a 2012 Olympic gold medalist for Ukraine and the first four-belt, undisputed cruiserweight champion in history, concluded his incredible march to the top of the heavyweight division last weekend by rallying to drop and edge lineal and WBC champion Tyson Fury in their instant classic of an undisputed clash in Saudi Arabia.
Not only has Usyk, who joins Naoya Inoue and Terence Crawford as the only male boxers to become undisputed champion in two divisions during the four-belt era, carved out his own unique place in the sport's rich history given how perfect his boxing journey has been up to this point, the crafty southpaw deserves one more sizable piece of recognition.
