Heavyweight Who ‘Destroyed’ Usyk In Sparring Vows To KO Him When They Fight: “He Couldn’t Touch Me”
Oleksandr Usyk is now undoubtedly the number one heavyweight in the world.
Last weekend the unbeaten Ukrainian once again defeated Tyson Fury in their rematch in Saudi Arabia. In a close affair, it was Usyk who walked out the ring retaining his WBC, WBA and WBO and Ring Magazine titles after a unanimous decision on the scorecards
The former cruiserweight and heavyweight undisputed champion has now arguably cleared out the top division, having beaten Fury twice, Anthony Joshua twice and current IBF champion Daniel Dubois. However, WBA number 1 ranked fighter, Martin Bakole and his team believe he is the man to end the Usyk’s reign.
Speaking to TalkSport, Bakole talked about his sparring with the two-time four-belt champion, claiming he smashed him and floored him with a body shot which he took a week to recover from.
“I don’t lie, I don’t like to lie. I always tell the truth. If you watch BOXXER’s video you will see. I was live on Sky Sports and Oleksandr’s manager came behind me and said ‘This guy is going to be world champion tomorrow’ because he knows, who I am, he was in the gym when I gave Usyk a hard time.
Usyk never even touched me, I smashed him and knocked him out. I knocked him out with a body shot. I was getting out of the ring and they said he will need one week to recover.”
And now his trainer, Billy Nelson, has told Sky Sports that his confident man is confident he would knock Usyk out if they fight.
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“I do believe Martin has got the skills and ability to dethrone Usyk. More importantly, I think Usyk and his team think Martin has got the ability to do it. They have shared a ring on quite a few occasions, namely in Ukraine and Dubai.
The attributes Martin has got is unlike others; he will close the gap down against Usyk very quickly and set traps. I haven’t seen traps being set in his two fights against Tyson. You can rest assured that Usyk knows Martin is very dangerous, probably the most dangerous, guy out there.
The best challenger out there for Oleksandr Usyk, who is a phenomenal fighter, would be Martin Bakole. I believe, and more importantly, Martin believes, he would knock him out.”
Usyk has options on the table, including a rematch with Daniel Dubois or a sensational move back down to cruiserweight and try to unify the belts again.
