{"id":889020,"date":"2026-09-09T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889020\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:56:09","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-admits-fellow-pound-for-pound-star-is-the-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889020\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk admits fellow pound-for-pound star is the ‘GOAT’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> has established himself as the standout heavyweight of his generation, but he has labelled one of his pound-for-pound rivals as \u2018The Greatest of All Time\u2019.<\/p>\n

Usyk was a force to be reckoned with at cruiserweight and became the division\u2019s first four-belt undisputed champion in an iconic and dominant triumph over Murat Gassiev.<\/p>\n

Despite his success, many wrote the Ukrainian off when he moved into the heavyweight division, but Usyk went on to replicate the feat and become the heavyweight division\u2019s first four-belt undisputed ruler.<\/p>\n

He achieved that after twice defeating two of boxing\u2019s biggest names in Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury over the course of a legendary run where his undefeated record was preserved.<\/p>\n

Last year, the veteran became a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion when he knocked out Daniel Dubois for a second time, but the 39-year-old vacated all of his belts after his most recent performance<\/a>, when pushed to the limit by kickboxing star Rico Verhoeven.<\/p>\n

Still, in spite of all of his achievements, Usyk told \u2018Ring Champs with Ak & Barak\u2019<\/a> that he sees Terence Crawford \u2013 who retired last December \u2013 as \u2018The GOAT\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Crawford is an] amazing fighter, amazing man, father and guy \u2026 My fight, Terence come and I say \u2018Hey, champ, hello!\u2019, and I say, \u2018You back boxing?\u2019, and [he says], \u2018What! No!\u2019. He is the GOAT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford hung up the gloves with a perfect 42-0 record, having become a five-division world champion and a three-weight undisputed champion after iconic wins over the likes of Canelo Alvarez and Errol Spence during his career.<\/p>\n

As for Usyk, he is expected to appear on one final occasion before walking off into the sunset, planning a farewell fight which could come against Deontay Wilder\u00a0in New York in March.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk has established himself as the standout heavyweight of his generation, but he has labelled one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-889020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889020","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=889020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}