{"id":508808,"date":"2026-04-02T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508808\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:07:07","slug":"david-haye-says-usyk-shouldnt-have-unbeaten-record-to-me-he-lost-that-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508808\/","title":{"rendered":"David Haye says Usyk shouldn’t have unbeaten record: “To me he lost that fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> arguably boasts one the most impressive undefeated records in the sport given the catalogue of quality opponents that he has overcome.<\/p>\n

However, David Haye<\/a> believes that there was one fight that the judges got wrong and that Usyk should no longer have his \u20180\u2019.<\/p>\n

Usyk and Haye make up two thirds of an extremely elite club, joined by Evander Holyfield<\/a> as the only three fighters to have held both a cruiserweight and heavyweight world title in boxing history.<\/p>\n

Although, unlike Usyk and Holyfield, \u2018The Hayemaker\u2019 did not complete the feat whilst retaining his undefeated record, due to his 2004 defeat to Carl Thompson, and he did not claim the undisputed title in both weight divisions.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Sun Sport<\/a>, Haye shared his belief that Usyk\u2019s ongoing 24-fight unbeaten run should have come to an end long ago, stating that Derek Chisora should have got the decision in their 2020 clash<\/a>, when discussing whether may \u2018Del Boy\u2019 swerve his upcoming retirement plan<\/a> for a potential rematch against the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow about, he [Chisora] wins against Wilder and Usyk wants to give him that rematch. If you rewatch that first fight, it was very, very close. I thought that he [Chisora] won, lots of people did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an opportunity, if he wins this fight, where, against the undisputed number one heavyweight on the planet, Usyk, someone who he has pushed the hardest out of all of Usyk\u2019s fights at cruiserweight and heavyweight, to have this mega fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilder-Chisora takes place at the O2 Arena on Saturday night<\/a>, for what is supposedly the fiftieth and final professional bout of the 43-year-old British fan-favourite\u2019s long career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk arguably boasts one the most impressive undefeated records in the sport given the catalogue of quality…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-508808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508808","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=508808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}