Oleksandr Usyk was on hand for Naoya Inoue\u2019s latest win on Night of the Samurai in recent days, and immediately following he spoke to Mike Coppinger on behalf of Ring TV to discuss his future in the sport of boxing as he continues to look towards putting together a fight against former champion Deontay Wilder. Usyk would say that he still has the most interest in facing Wilder of all potential opponents and shares that he only expects to fight a few more times at most.<\/p>\n
Usyk is a fighter that\u2019s essentially already run the table at heavyweight, and while there will always be new names of young opponents he could fight, not many are going to begrudge him for handpicking an opponent here or there given what he\u2019s already accomplished. There surely won\u2019t be much intrigue in a Wilder fight at this point if that comes to fruition, but here\u2019s some of what Usyk had to say below.<\/p>\n
Usyk on his plans for 2026<\/p>\n
\u201cMy team prepare for me fight (this year). I want fight with \u2014 I say Bronze Bomber, Deontay Wilder. I want this fight, I think Deontay too (wants the fight). Okay, let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n
On facing Wilder now when he\u2019s past his prime<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s biggest names (I want to fight). This is man, last 10 years top fighter. It\u2019s I think, for me, it\u2019s great fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the danger of Wilder\u2019s power and if he now packs a bigger punch than him<\/p>\n
On how long he plans to fight given that he\u2019s already a sure Hall of Famer<\/p>\n
\u201cI think two, three fights more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk was on hand for Naoya Inoue\u2019s latest win on Night of the Samurai in recent days,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-390636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}