
Oleksandr Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer who has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight titles since 2021, and the Ring magazine heavyweight title since 2022.
Oleksandr Usyk‘s heavyweight titles record stands at 20 wins and 0 losses. Oleksandr Usyk was supposed to fight Tyson Fury but the fight is now off. Talks to make the undisputed heavyweight title fight have failed to reach a conclusion, and according to Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter Alexander Krassyuk. He will now look to make a defence of his heavyweight titles against WBA mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois.
Oleksandr Usyk is nothing short of a master boxer, described by myboxinglife.com as ‘clinical’, and he is known for his footwork, slickness and his incessant ‘pawing’ jab that confuses opponents. Oleksandr Usyk has quietly taken over the heavier divisions of boxing as an Olympic champion, gold medalist at the world and European championships with an amateur record of 335 wins to 15 losses.
Oleksandr Usyk’s Biography
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk born on 17 January 1987, is a Ukrainian professional boxer who has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA (Super), IBF, and WBO heavyweight titles since 2021, and the Ring magazine heavyweight title since 2022. He once held the undisputed cruiserweight championship from 2018 to 2019, being the first boxer in that division to hold all four major world titles.
Oleksandr Usyk is widely regarded as one of the greatest Ukrainian boxers of all time and with his victory over Anthony Joshua in 2021, he became one of only three boxers to have unified the cruiserweight world titles and become a world heavyweight champion, joining Evander Holyfield and David Haye.
Oleksandr Usyk won heavyweight gold medals at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 Olympics as an amateur. He turned professional in 2013 and won the undisputed cruiserweight championship in his 15th professional fight in 2018. Three of his titles were won during the inaugural World Boxing Super Series, in which he won the Muhammad Ali Trophy, as well as the Ring and lineal cruiserweight titles.
Oleksandr Usyk was named the 2018 Fighter of the Year by Sports Illustrated, ESPN, The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). He became the fourth male boxer in history to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles, after Jermain Taylor, Bernard Hopkins and Terence Crawford in 2018.
Oleksandr Usyk was the first Ukrainian undisputed champion and is particularly notable for the speed of his accomplishments, winning his first world title in his tenth fight, and becoming the undisputed champion of his weight class by his fifteenth fight. He vacated his cruiserweight titles in 2019 to move up to heavyweight. By that point, in sixteen fights he had defeated five current or former world champions.
As of August 2022, Oleksandr Usyk is ranked as the world’s best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring, second by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB), third by BWAA, fifth by BoxRec and sixth by ESPN. He is also ranked as the best heavyweight by TBRB, BoxRec and ESPN. In preliminary negotiations for a title fight with Tyson Fury Oleksandr Usyk stipulated that he would only accept a 70-30 split of the purse favoring Fury if Fury agreed to making $1 million donation to Ukraine.
But the fight is now off as talks to make the undisputed heavyweight title fight have failed to reach a conclusion, according to Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter Alexander Krassyuk. He will now look to make a defence of his heavyweight titles against WBA mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois.
Oleksandr Usyk is married with three children and they live in Kyiv, Ukraine. His wife has Russian citizenship and he uses Russian as his first language but on 28 April 2014, after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Oleksandr Usyk declared he would never exchange his Ukrainian citizenship for Russian citizenship.
Oleksandr Usyk’s Nationality
Born in Simferopol, Oleksandr Usyk is a Ukrainian national
Oleksandr Usyk’s Net Worth
According to Marca, as of 2023, Oleksandr Usyk’s net worth is said to be around £45 million. He is reported to earn around $1 million yearly from his endorsement deals.
Where is Oleksandr Usyk from?
Oleksandr Usyk is from Simferopol the second-largest city in the Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and is considered the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
How old is Oleksandr Usyk?
Born on January 17, 1987, Oleksandr Usyk is 36 years
Oleksandr Usyk’s Height & Weight
Oleksandr Usyk stands 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) or 1.91 m tall and weighs 100 kg
Oleksandr Usyk’s Career
Until age 15, Oleks andr Usyk played football and was trained at the SC Tavriya Simferopol specialized sports school of Olympic reserve (club’s football academy), but in 2002, switched to boxing. At the 2006 European Championships he won his first three matches but lost in the semi-final to Matvey Korobov and then moved up to light-heavyweight later and won the Strandja Cup in 2008.
In February 2008, Oleksandr Usyk moved up another weight class and was sent to the Olympic qualifier in Roseto degli Abruzzi replacing European Champion Denys Poyatsyka, there he defeated world class Azeri Elchin Alizade and Daniel Price. At the 2008 Olympic Games, he outpointed Yushan Nijiati by 23–4, but lost to Clemente Russo by 4–7 in the quarter-final.
At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships Oleksandr Usyk defeated Artur Beterbiev and Teymur Mammadov to win the heavyweight title and qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, he won the gold medal, outpointing Artur Beterbiev, Tervel Pulev and Italy’s Clemente Russo, outscoring him by 6–3 in the final. He retired from amateur boxing with a record of 335−15.
Before turning professional, Oleksandr Usyk competed in the heavyweight division (91+ kg) of the 2012–13 World Series of Boxing (WSB), as part of team Ukraine Otamans, winning all six of his bouts with two by stoppage (Junior Fa by UD, Eric Brechlin by 3rd round TKO, Joe Joyce by UD, Magomedrasul Majidov by UD, Matteo Modugno by 2nd round TKO and Mihai Nistor by UD).
Oleksandr Usyk turned pro in late 2013 at the age of 26 and signed a promotional deal with the Klitschko brothers’ K2 Promotions, fighting in the cruiserweight division. On 9 November 2013 he made his professional debut by defeating Mexican fighter Felipe Romero via a fifth-round knockout. The following month he stopped Epifanio Mendoza in four rounds. In his third professional fight on 26 April 2014, Oleksandr Usyk made his debut in Germany on the undercard of Klitschko-Leapai at the Koenig Pilsener Arena, defeating Ben Nsafoah via third-round knockout, and a month later, returned home and scored a fourth-round knockout-victory over Argentine Cesar David Crenz.
Oleksandr Usyk won his first title on 4 October 2014, after beating South African boxer Daniel Bruwer via seventh-round technical knockout (TKO) for the interim WBO Inter-Continental cruiserweight title. He defended the title two months later, stopping Danie Venter in the ninth-round and was ahead on all three judges’ scorecards at the time of stoppage.
As of August 2022, Oleksandr Usyk is ranked as the world’s best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring, second by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB), third by BWAA, fifth by BoxRec and sixth by ESPN. He is also ranked as the best heavyweight by TBRB, BoxRec and ESPN.
Oleksandr Usyk’s Marital Status
Oleksandr Usyk is married to the gorgeous Yekaterina Usyk since 2009. Yekaterina who is commonly known as Kateryna has decided to keep her personal life mostly private but has been claimed that she had been close to Oleksandr Usyk for several years before becoming a Mrs. and now runs the foundation which belongs to the heavyweight champ.
Oleksandr Usyk’s Family & Siblings
Oleksandr Usyk was born to parents originally from northern Ukraine. His mother was born in the Chernihiv region (in the village of Rybotyn, Korop Raion), while his father was a native of Sumy. His mother worked in construction and moved to Simferopol to study. His father was a military man who passed through Afghanistan, working as a security guard in Crimea, and the two met there. He is the first born of his family and he has two siblings.
Why is Oleksandr Usyk famous?
Oleksandr Usyk is famous as the first Ukrainian undisputed champion. He is particularly notable for the speed of his accomplishments, winning his first world title in his tenth fight, and becoming the undisputed champion of his weight class by his fifteenth fight.
Oleksandr Usyk’s Children
Oleksandr Usyk and his wife Yekaterina have three adorable children named Yelizaveta Usyk, Kyrylo Usyk, and Mykhailo Usyk. Yelizaveta Usyk is well-known to be the only daughter of the Ukrainian professional boxer name Oleksandr Usyk born in 2010, making her 13 years.
Kyrylo Usyk is the second child and first son of Oleksandr Usyk born in 2013, hence is 10 years old now while his brother Mykhailo Usyk is the third child and second son of Oleksandr Usyk and his wife.
Looking at the age of the kids, they are still in school and that explains why there isn’t much known about them aside from the fact that their parents are very private and keep their personal life off the media no matter the attention given them.
Oleksandr Usyk’s Social Media
Oleksandr Usyk goes by the handle (@usykaa) on Instagram.
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