{"id":643463,"date":"2026-06-17T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643463\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:59:08","slug":"hall-of-fame-legend-cant-understand-why-nobody-can-beat-oleksandr-usyk-id-figure-him-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643463\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame legend can’t understand why nobody can beat Oleksandr Usyk: “I’d figure him out”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> has never tasted defeat in his illustrious professional career but one former world heavyweight champion believes he\u2019d have been more than capable of inflicting a loss on the record of the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n

Usyk is viewed as one of the best pound-for-pound stars in the world<\/a>, having conquered the cruiserweight division and becoming undisputed, before moving up to the banner division and achieving that same feat on two occasions at heavyweight.<\/p>\n

It is in that weight class where the 39-year-old has claimed notable victories over Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois, all twice, and he is currently in possession of the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles.<\/p>\n

As the debate rages on over who Usyk will step into the ring with next, former heavyweight king Lennox Lewis<\/a> has offered his thoughts on the unified champion in a resurfaced video<\/a>, insisting that he knows what is needed in order to overcome the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish I was in this era because I would have loved to have boxed him. I can\u2019t see why nobody can\u2019t figure him out, I would have figured him out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Usyk claimed undisputed heavyweight status in 2024, Lewis was the last man to earn that honour, following his victory over Evander Holyfield in November 1999.<\/p>\n

Lewis was a three-time world heavyweight champion, also securing wins over the likes of Mike Tyson<\/a> and Vitali Klitschko on his way to defeating every man he ever faced in his career.<\/p>\n

While Lewis is confident he would have defeated Usyk himself, he has also revealed how he thinks the Ukrainian would have fared against the other stars from his era.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk has never tasted defeat in his illustrious professional career but one former world heavyweight champion believes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643463","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\/643463","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=643463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}