Oleksandr Usyk to give battered Brit heavyweights Joshua, Fury & Dubois a break… with next contender revealed
Ukraine's 38-year-old undisputed king has now slayed Tony Bellew and
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Oleksandr Usyk has battered British boxing
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He knocked out Daniel Dubois on Saturday
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He beat Tyson Fury twice
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The Ukrainian also destroyed Anthony Joshua in the ring
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For the sake of English boxing, we need the London 2012 golden boy to spare our giants, and thankfully, New Zealand's 33-year-old banger is at the front of the queue as the WBO's mandatory challenger.
But once he has healed up and played Daddy Cool for a few weeks, he will be back for Parker.
'Now I want to rest,' he said in the bowels of Wembley with all of his belts safely tucked away.
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'I can't say who my next opponent is.
'I prepared for three and a half months, I have not seen my wife or my family.
'Every day I lived with my team in a house with 14 guys. Seeing the same faces every day.'
That ruthless dedication to his craft and career is what sets Usyk - also a former undisputed cruiserweight ruler - apart from the rest of the blue-riband division.
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'Does he have more left to give?' Warren wondered. "We'll find out, won't we?
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'He's only a young man. It's not like he took a belting, he got knocked down twice and that was it.
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'But we will see, it's all about resilience, it's about desire and wanting to be the best and - more importantly - learning from your mistakes.
'And that's what good fighters do. You know, there's lots of fighters over the years that have been beaten and come back even stronger and that's what he has to do.
'He came back from his previous defeat, very strong and was on a really good run against world-class opposition, former world champions, undefeated fighters, and he did it in style.
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Joseph Parker is expected to be Usyk's next foe
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He beat Martin Bakole in February
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'He can punch, he can hurt you, and he's just developing other aspects of his game.
'Now, Daniel has got to resurrect himself.
"That's what we've had to do. That's the story.'
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