{"id":337744,"date":"2025-12-27T06:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337744\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:29:09","slug":"dave-allen-didnt-hesitate-when-asked-if-oleksandr-usyk-beats-prime-mike-tyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337744\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen Didn’t Hesitate When Asked If Oleksandr Usyk Beats Prime Mike Tyson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Allen<\/a> has made it clear what he thinks would have happened if Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> and prime Mike Tyson<\/a> were ever to have met in the ring.<\/p>\n

For many people, Usyk is one of the greatest to ever do it. The Ukrainian had a fine amateur career that ended with him becoming an Olympic gold medallist back at the London Games in 2012.<\/p>\n

Six years after that, he cleaned out the cruiserweight division to become an undisputed champion and then kept on breaking records when he moved up to heavyweight.<\/p>\n

By 2024, he had beaten every man he faced, including a pair of victorious over Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury to become the undisputed star of the banner division, then he beat Daniel Dubois for a second time to become a two-time undisputed ruler.<\/p>\n

As for American boxing legend Tyson, he still holds the record for being the youngest ever world heavyweight champion and at the start of his career \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 went on a ferocious run of knockouts that assured this place in the history books.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Mail Sport Boxing<\/a> for a round of winner says on, popular heavyweight Allen was asked who would come out on top between these two legendary names.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsyk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usyk has not fought since he stopped Dubois for a second time back in August,<\/a> but has declared that next time out, he wants to take on American puncher Deontay Wilder.<\/a><\/p>\n

As for the retired Tyson, his last ill-fated trip to the ring was as a 58-year-old in 2024 when he lost a wide points decision to Jake Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Allen has made it clear what he thinks would have happened if Oleksandr Usyk and prime Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-337744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337744","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=337744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}