2<\/p>\n Usyk was last in action in July when he dispatched DuboisCredit: AFP<\/p>\n However, he has now told Ukrainian publication UNN that he will continue competing until he is 41 years old.<\/p>\n “I will box until I am 41,” he said. “And then I will build a Sports Academy, and I will train there.”<\/p>\n Usyk also revealed that ‘negotiations are underway’ for his next fight<\/a> and that he will return to the ring in the new year.<\/p>\n “I can’t say who I’ll be in the ring with because negotiations are underway,” he added.<\/p>\n “I’d be fooling you if I gave you a name…<\/p>\n “I train every day. Yesterday morning, I arrived and immediately went to the training hall. <\/p>\n “I train with the goal of entering the ring next year and, with God’s help, winning.”<\/p>\n Usyk celebrates his 39th birthday in January, meaning boxing fans will likely be treated to his brilliance for three more years.<\/p>\n The future Hall of Famer proved he still has plenty left in the tank in July when he blasted away 27-year-old Daniel Dubois<\/a> inside five rounds at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n Several preeminent boxing voices believe Usyk is getting better with age.<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n The undisputed heavyweight champion intends to box again in 2026Credit: GETTY<\/p>\n However, fellow heavyweight great Lennox Lewis<\/a> has urged ‘The Cat’ to take a leaf out of his book and bow out while he is still on top.<\/a><\/p>\n Lennox Lewis wants to see Oleksandr Usyk retire before boxing retires him<\/p>\n “When a guy retires, it’s really down to him,” Lewis told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n “He’s got to feel that push that he wants to retire.<\/p>\n “But he can teach a lot of young boxers a lot of different things: dedication, hard work, sacrifice, because he’s been through that.<\/p>\n “So I would say to him to retire at your own time, but retire on top. Like I did.<\/p>\n “It’s definitely the hardest thing to do because you basically want to be the best in boxing and take all the belts for yourself and be the number one guy.<\/p>\n The Rock recalls Oleksandr Usyk sparring session and names one thing that stunned him about the heavyweight<\/p>\n “There’s always other boxers out there that don’t want you to achieve that. <\/p>\n “They’re standing by, they want to beat you, they want to be the first boxer to beat you. <\/p>\n “That’s why you’ve got to make sure that you retire on top.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk has changed his mind on when he will call time on his career. The undisputed heavyweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1774,2560,6102,15920,4036,4204,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-205088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-age","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-next-fight","tag-oleksandr-usyk","tag-retirement","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Usyk](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/britains-daniel-dubois-fight-undisputed-1011111856.jpg\")
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