Oleksandr Usyk was pictured with a bruised and bruised face after winning his world title.
The Ukrainian added the vacant Ring Magazine title to his WBA Super, IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight titles on Saturday night as he remained undefeated.
Usyk, who made it 20-0 with 13 quick shots, beat Anthony Joshua in a rematch at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia.
It was a split decision, with two of the three judges handing cards 116-112 and 115-113 in favor of Usyk and the other judge, Glenn Feldman, unable to explain the tournament to the British –– who has now lost three of his last five games – by a margin of 113-115.
Usyk took some heavy shots from AJ during the battle and was filming the scene leaving the kingdom after his victory with two black eyes bruised on his face.
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Joshua, who has new coach Robert Garcia in the corner with him for the first time since leaving longtime mentor Robert McCracken after his first loss to Usyk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London last September , has made a lot of display improvement, has many successful spells.
But it wasn’t enough as Usyk won after a Herculean effort in the final three innings.
“I’m not sure if I’m right, but I saw in round eight I saw in Anthony Joshua’s eyes that he was feeling victorious.”
“I always say to myself, ‘You can’t stop, you can’t stop, you can’t stop.’ Big things are at stake. “
Joshua enjoyed a lot of success in the eighth and ninth rounds of the fight, with the latter of two stanzas arguably his best fight yet, and Usyk stepped up to pull away and win.
Then the undisputed former cruiser class champion, who moved into heavyweight three years after finishing the 200-pound weight class and winning every belt, name Tyson Fury, WBC champion the sole holder of a piece of property that does not belong to the man who was on the front lines of his country’s war with Russia earlier this year, for an undisputed potential £200m contest in the suite. leading division of this sport.
Usyk suggests that he might hang up the gauntlet if Fury doesn’t accept the undisputed fight. But ‘The Gypsy King’, who retired after giving up the aforementioned Ring Magazine belt that Usyk won last weekend, was quick to respond, stating that he would be stripped of his titles as soon as possible.
