{"id":510701,"date":"2026-04-03T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510701\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:00:17","slug":"chisora-says-he-knew-usyk-would-be-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510701\/","title":{"rendered":"Chisora says he knew Usyk would be superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known British heavyweight boxer Derek Chisora explained what helped Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk reach the top of world boxing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chisora, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/derek-chisora-has-heard-and-seen-it-all-as-he-heads-into-fight-no-50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BoxingScene<\/a>, Usyk defeats everyone thanks to his movement, Ukrinform reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Movement, movement. He beats everybody by movement. Because, remember, in boxing we are trained to hit a target and not move our feet. But Oleksandr, he hits the target, moves, changes angles and moves on this side and moves on that side. So it&#8217;s quite difficult. I knew he was going to be the man because everybody else was ducking him,&#8221; the British boxer said.<\/p>\n<p>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-sports\/4104351-boxer-anthony-joshua-visits-ukraine-for-first-time-tours-memorial-in-kyiv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boxer Anthony Joshua visits Ukraine for first time, tours memorial in Kyiv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I boxed him [Usyk], and then his next big fight was with AJ at Tottenham. Great fight; he won it. And then the return fight, again, he won it. And then from there, I knew he was going to be a superstar,&#8221; Chisora added.<\/p>\n<p>Usyk and Chisora faced each other in the ring in October 2020, with the Ukrainian winning by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Chisora lost a tough bout to Vitali Klitschko.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: facebook.com\/Alexanderusyk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well-known British heavyweight boxer Derek Chisora explained what helped Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk reach the top of world boxing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-510701","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\/510701","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=510701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}