An Olympic gold medalist has shared the blueprint he believes is enough to beat Oleksandr Usyk.
Usyk has not lost in the professional ranks. He has fought 24 times, won every single bout and stopped 15 of his opponents.
Along the way, he has cleaned out the cruiserweight division to become undisputed, then moved up to heavyweight and dominated just as much with two wins over Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Daniel Dubois which made him a two-time undisputed heavyweight ruler, and the first man in history to achieve that in the four belt era.
He recently vacated his WBO belt rather than face Fabio Wardley and has instead said he wants to take on former WBC ruler and notoriously big-punching Deontay Wilder.
One of the last men to beat Usyk inside the ring was Egor Mekhontsev, who secured a points victory over the Ukrainian great at the semi-final stage of the 2009 Amateur World Championships in Milan.
Speaking to ESNEWS, he shared the way he thinks Wilder could win.
“I tell him move quickly, move fast, only speed. He’s big, strong guy. If you want to win you need big speed. You need speed like Usyk. If you [throw] body shot he’s down. He don’t like body shots. Look at my amateur fight with him. He don’t like liver punches.”
Wilder has not often thrown much to the body, instead unleashing his famous one-shot KO power to the head of defeated opponents like Dominic Breazeale, Luis Ortiz and Bermane Stiverne.
He is coming off a pair of losses to Zhilei Zhang and Joseph Parker back in 2024, having also twice lost to Fury, so this fight with Usyk could be his last chance to get back to the top of the division.
