Queensberry promoter Frank Warren gives his reaction to the the outlook of the heavyweight division, with particular respect to Oleksandr Usyk and whether or not he\u2019ll be looking to take on some other top heavyweights after his upcoming novelty fight against a kickboxer. Here\u2019s some of what Warren had to say below.<\/p>\n
Warren on Usyk potentially fighting the winner of Fabio Wardley vs Daniel Dubois<\/p>\n
\u201cThe WBC after Usyk\u2019s fight in Egypt will order that Usyk has to defend against the interim mandatory challenger in Agit Kabayel. So he\u2019s either going to fight him or he\u2019s not and we\u2019ll decide what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
On who gets top billing in Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. As long as they get in the ring, who cares?\u201d<\/p>\n
On Turki Alalshikh having an interest in Benavidez fighting Usyk<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Usyk wants to fight him or anybody else then he\u2019s got to vacate the belts. Simple as that, because that\u2019s where we are. These guys have fought for the right to be in the #1 spot for the mandatories, and I\u2019ve got a tremendous respect for Usyk, so he\u2019s either going to fight them or he\u2019s not and if he\u2019s not, whoever\u2019s #1 will fight #2 for the belt.\u201d<\/p>\n
On what he thinks Usyk will do for his next fight<\/p>\n
\u201cHis next fight will be ordered by the WBC. He holds that belt and it will be against Agit Kabayel, who is the interim champion. He\u2019s either going to fight him or he\u2019s not going to fight him. If he don\u2019t fight him, he\u2019ll vacate the title. Then the next mandatory is due, and he\u2019ll have to fight the #1 or vacate the belt. Or he can vacate all the belts and just fight who he likes. We\u2019ve got plenty of heavyweights for him to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensberry promoter Frank Warren gives his reaction to the the outlook of the heavyweight division, with particular respect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573260","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=573260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}