Tyson Fury And Usyk Both Name The Same Knockout Artist As ‘The Future Of The Heavyweight Division’

They disagreed over many things, but Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury seem to see eye-to-eye on who will rule the heavyweight division in years to come.

Right now, Usyk remains the man at the top. The 37-year-old is unbeaten in the professional ring after 23 fights. In that time and over the last 13 years, he has cleaned out the cruiserweight division and become undisputed champion.

Then despite being a naturally smaller man, he has beaten everyone he has faced up at heavyweight including Anthony Joshua twice, Fury twice, Derek Chisora and Daniel Dubois. He has vowed to keep on fighting, though surely not for much longer.

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Fury, meanwhile, announced his retirement from the sport following two back-to-back losses to Usyk, who is the only man to beat the former WBC champion.

Many hope that in time Fury might be lured back for one more epic showdown with long-time British rival Joshua. However, none of these men will be around too much longer, and Fury is certain he knows who will take their place at the top.

“Moses Itauma is the future of the heavyweight division 100%.”

Usyk has also seen the highly rated puncher fight and had plenty of praise for the 19-year-old, as reported by his promoter Frank Warren.

“Alex Krassyuk and Usyk were both sitting there and both of them said at the same time ‘this is the future of the heavyweight division’”.

Itauma is hoping to become the youngest-ever world champion but only has a few months to beat Mike Tyson‘s record. In his last two contests he stopped Mariusz Wach inside two rounds, then knocked out Demsey McKean in the opening round in December.

Itauma doesn’t currently have a fight scheduled but has spoken before about his desire to face the likes of Kubrat Pulev, Chisora and Filip Hrgovic.