{"id":787484,"date":"2026-09-30T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787484\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:56:08","slug":"top-heavyweight-who-faced-both-says-deontay-wilder-will-lay-oleksandr-usyk-out-hell-ko-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787484\/","title":{"rendered":"Top heavyweight who faced both says Deontay Wilder will ‘lay Oleksandr Usyk out’: “He’ll KO him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> looks poised to take on Deontay Wilder<\/a> in early 2027, but one of their two common professional opponents is picking the latter to spoil the Ukrainian\u2019s \u2018farewell fight\u2019.<\/p>\n

Usyk had held the unified heavyweight world title up until June, but an underwhelming\u00a0yet victorious display against Rico Verhoeven<\/a> seemed to convince the veteran that Father Time was breathing down his neck, subsequently causing him to vacate all three belts and plan for a career finale.<\/p>\n

Since then, it has become clear that Wilder is Usyk\u2019s targeted opponent, with \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019 bringing both the name and punch power to make the bout an interesting and sellable one, particularly in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet, speaking with Seconds Out<\/a>, Derek Chisora \u2013 who lost out to Wilder earlier this year<\/a> and was beaten by Usyk in 2020 \u2013 revealed that he is backing the Tuscaloosa knockout artist to spring the upset and hand Usyk a first career defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeontay [beats Usyk]. Bro, Deontay is going to lay him out, I am telling you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cForget the right hand, I felt his power and he has got power. Eating a punch from that guy is hard. Deontay knocks him out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whilst many fight fans are looking towards Usyk\u2019s age as the reason behind his decline, Chisora went on to highlight another concern of his, noting the absence of long-time trainer Yuriy Tkachenko for the Verhoeven scrap.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not being trained by his old trainer, he is going away from his whole team and he is being trained by his pals. Who am I going to put money on? I\u2019ll put my money on Deontay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usyk vs Wilder could be set to take place in early 2027<\/a>, with New York deemed to be one of the frontrunners to host the bout, for what would be Usyk\u2019s first stateside contest since his 2019 heavyweight debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk looks poised to take on Deontay Wilder in early 2027, but one of their two common…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787484","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\/787484","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=787484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}