Derek Chisora’s plan is to keep relentless pressure on the smaller Oleksandr Usyk from the opening bell whenever the heavyweight contenders meet in the ring.
Usyk’s response to that? You can’t hit what you can’t see.
Usyk, the slick former undisputed cruiserweight champ from Ukraine, and the longtime heavyweight player from England were scheduled to fight in May and then again in July but their meeting was pushed back again because of the coronavirus pandemic.
No date is currently set. And word is that the fight might not take place unless spectators are allowed in arenas because of the magnitude of the matchup.
“Normally I face this kind of plan, every fight,” Usyk told Sky Sports. “If you want to hit the target, you need to see the target, because he can throw as much punches as you can, but you need to land them into the target.”
“… “Normally I face this kind of plan, every fight. If you want to hit the target, you need to see the target, because he can throw as much punches as you can, but you need to land them into the target.”
That doesn’t mean Usyk lacks respect for his rival. In fact, he once admired Chisora from afar.
“When I was an amateur,” he said, “I was watching his fights as a heavyweight, with [Vitali] Klitschko, David Haye, and I was thinking, ‘Wow, such great guys somewhere far away,’ and now I’m going to box one of those great guys myself.”