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The Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Sun
Derek Chisora stunned after finding out about Oleksandr Usyk's outrageous training regime ahead of Daniel Dubois fight
WHEN Derek Chisora bumped into Oleksandr Usyk in 2021 - he was stunned to find out his old rival had been swimming for FIVE hours. The two reunited one year after Chisora pushed the 2012 Olympic gold medalist all the way to a tight points loss. 7 7 7 Usyk, 38, was preparing to fight Anthony Joshua for the first time and was using a fitness centre owned by one of Chisora's friends. And he stunned Chisora after revealing he had been swimming non-stop lengths for hours on end. Chisora, 41, said on SunSport's No Glove Lost show in association with 32Red: "This is why Usyk's so good, because he trains hard. "You know, I bumped into him the first AJ fight. Walked in there, my guy who owns the place says, 'Usyk's up there.' "Usyk came downstairs, started talking and he says, 'I arrived earlier on but I've been swimming.' Been swimming? "And he goes, 'I've been swimming for six hours.' Non stop! Do you understand? "Olympic swimming pool, he's going up and down, up and down up and down. Non stop. "Because in Ukraine they go in one of those big rivers and they will just swim to the end and back." Usyk vs Dubois 2 - All the info OLEKSANDR USYK and Daniel Dubois meet again in a blockbuster heavyweight unification fight at Wembley Stadium THIS SATURDAY! Usyk won the first fight in August 2023 via a ninth round KO - but only after Dubois knocked him to the canvas with a body blow that was ruled a low blow. Dubois, 27, has improved massively since that first meeting, reeling off stunning wins over Jarrell Miller, Filip Hrgovic and Anthony Joshua. Watch Usyk vs Dubois 2 LIVE on DAZN Here's everything you need to know ahead of the big fight... INFO All the info for Usyk vs Dubois 2 Latest ticket availability and price How much are Usyk and Dubois earning for the rematch? Get either fighter at 50/1 to win with talkSPORT BET LATEST NEWS, EXCLUSIVES & FEATURES Dubois must be a 'crazy DEMON' to beat Usyk, says Chisora How moving gyms sparked incredible change in Dubois Inside Dubois' camp - fuelled by Ascot wins and ancient Greece Amateur coach: Dubois so powerful as a teenager I had to tell him to go easy on the adults Dubois SCREAMS in Usyk's face in bizarre face-off Usyk warns Dubois his IQ is too much for the Brit 7 Watch Usyk vs Dubois 2 LIVE on DAZN Usyk went on to twice beat Joshua, 35, on points while also doing the same against Tyson Fury, 36, to become undisputed king. Those wins were in between a ninth-round stoppage victory over Daniel Dubois, 27, although the pair now rematch on Saturday at Wembley. He is fighting a guy who is crazy! Chisora | No Glove Lost: Usyk vs Dubois 2 fight preview - The Sun Sport And Chisora - who has remained close friends with Usyk - reckons the masterful Ukrainian is as perfect as a fighter can be. He said: 'Daniel has to walk into Wembley Stadium and just become a demon. And just go with that. Don't even doubt yourself, just go with it. 'But, let's be honest. These Europeans are different from us English. We are mummy's boys and those guys are real men. 'He's a religious guy. He's a man of God. Do you know when someone's got it all perfect? He's got it all perfect.' 7 7 7
The Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Sun
David Haye gives Daniel Dubois blueprint to beat Oleksandr Usyk and tells Brit which boxer to copy
DAVID HAYE says Daniel Dubois' blueprint to beat Oleksandr Usyk is hiding in the boxing legend's reign of terror over his British rivals. Usyk has two points victories over Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury in between a ninth-round stoppage victory over Dubois. 8 But before the fantastic five victories, Derek Chisora pushed Usyk all the way in their 2020 bout and lost a tight decision. Haye - who managed Chisora at the time - warned Dubois must learn from Del Boy's aggression and do away with the tactics he, AJ and Fury deployed. He told SunSport courtesy of Highbet: "No matter what your skillset is, you have to be able to work for every second of every round to win the majority of the rounds and up to this point, AJ or Fury wasn't able to go up in gears and really continue to push him. "He kind of said pulled away in those fights. So if Tyson Fury and AJ had worked as hard as Derek worked, for instance, in terms of engine letting his hands go, not having to sort of conserve energy and bounce around the ring and get into that boxing zone which Usyk is a master of, I think he's right. "I think they would have won another two or three rounds maybe which might have been enough to win the fight. "But if you look at Derek Chisora's fight with Usyk and I think I've heard Usyk on a couple of occasions say that was my hardest fight and it wasn't because Derek tried to match him for skills. "Derek matched him for pace and he made Usyk fight his fight which is a close, rough and tough push and pull, exhausting fight. "And Usyk never had that really not at that pace. I think Usyk only won the fight by two rounds so I was there ringside. At the time, a lot of people thought Derek won the fight. 8 Usyk vs Dubois 2 - All the info OLEKSANDR USYK and Daniel Dubois meet again in a blockbuster heavyweight unification fight at Wembley Stadium THIS SATURDAY! Usyk won the first fight in August 2023 via a ninth round KO - but only after Dubois knocked him to the canvas with a body blow that was ruled a low blow. Dubois, 27, has improved massively since that first meeting, reeling off stunning wins over Jarrell Miller, Filip Hrgovic and Anthony Joshua. Watch Usyk vs Dubois 2 LIVE on DAZN Here's everything you need to know ahead of the big fight... INFO All the info for Usyk vs Dubois 2 Latest ticket availability and price How much are Usyk and Dubois earning for the rematch? Get either fighter at 50/1 to win with talkSPORT BET LATEST NEWS, EXCLUSIVES & FEATURES Dubois must be a 'crazy DEMON' to beat Usyk, says Chisora How moving gyms sparked incredible change in Dubois Inside Dubois' camp - fuelled by Ascot wins and ancient Greece Amateur coach: Dubois so powerful as a teenager I had to tell him to go easy on the adults Dubois SCREAMS in Usyk's face in bizarre face-off Usyk warns Dubois his IQ is too much for the Brit "As time goes by, people say it was an easy win, it wasn't. Go back and watch that fight and at the end of the fight he wasn't sure whether he won or lost the fight and it's down to Derek's strategy that he had going into the fight. "Not playing Usyk's game, the game that Daniel Dubois played to a T for Usyk the first time they fought. "When they first fought Usyk did exactly what he always does when his opponents show him too much respect and they try and sort of ease their way into the fight. "Usyk is so technically gifted that Dubois didn't show Usyk anything he hasn't seen before and it made it - pretty much outside of the sort of semi-low blow whatever you however you see it - it was in full control from Usyk. "But off the strength of Dubois' last fight against Anthony Joshua, he showed a lot more of the mindset that you need to beat Usyk, which is don't play the long game, the long range game, get inside, use your physical attributes." Usyk admits he is entering the first of his final two fights after Olympic gold medal and undisputed titles at two weights. Whereas Haye believes 27-year-old Dubois - who knocked out Joshua in September - is in the prime of his life both mentally and physically. He said: "Will Usyk be training for this fight like it's the toughest fight of his life? "Will he be training for this fight as hard as he trained for the Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fights? Probably, but how many times can you have a training camp? 8 8 8 "How many times can you do a 12-round training camp with all the sparring and all the injuries that come with it? "He's 38 years old. A lot of amateur fights, high-level international Olympics, World Championships. "He's been there, seen it, done it, so at some stage you go to the well and it's not as full as it was the time before, the fight before and he's had those four massive unification fights with Fury and Joshua. "I think Usyk is gonna have to have the fight of his life. If the right version of Dubois turns up, a version of Dubois that we saw in his last fight, the performance against AJ, he stuck to his game plan, he did what he needed to do and he was able to win the fight." Dethroning Usyk and handing the Ukrainian icon his first defeat would rank as one of British boxing's greatest wins in the eyes of Haye. He said: "It'd be one of the best wins on paper and in reality. "Although if Usyk does come out and he gets steamrolled, is he getting steamrolled because Dubois is that much better? 8 8 "Or is it because he's now 38 and that wouldn't have happened when he was 32, 33? "Every boxer gets to the stage where they think they've got everything they once had but you don't know it until you're out there under the lights. "Every great fighter, Roy Jones, Sugar Shane Mosley, Muhammad Ali, every great fighter can go from being an all-time great to losing to somebody who is so much less experienced or even technically gifted because of the physical side. "You can have all the skills in the world, if you don't have the machine, the body to implement it there's a tipping point and I think we're getting close to Usyk's tipping point. "You may be able to hold it together for another fight, maybe two. I don't know but he do ten more like that because the next generation are getting bigger and stronger and younger and more experienced. "So when is that point where his physical ability can't keep up with his technical boxing brain?" Haye knows Dubois is up against it - but reckons destiny is on his side. He said: "He is a massive underdog in this fight. There's no reason why he shouldn't be an underdog. "I just think everything's set for him to shine and if there's ever a chance for Dubois to become undisputed champion, it's Saturday night. "He's got to be willing to take some stick, take a left hand down the pipe from time to time but he's got to get close, watch the Derek Chisora fight on what to do when you get in close. "Rough and tough, push him, if you've got to lose a couple of points because you're hitting him in the back of the head or the kidneys, whatever it is it's life and death and you've got to find a way to win." 8
The Sun
5 days ago
- Sport
- The Sun
Daniel Dubois must be a ‘crazy DEMON' to beat Oleksandr Usyk, warns Derek Chisora ahead of world title fight
DEREK CHISORA had a friendly chat with ice-cool Oleksandr Usyk while Russian missiles rained down around him. So he knows Daniel Dubois needs to be absolutely crazy in the ring to beat the Ukrainian. 7 7 7 In 2020, the 41-year-old British warhorse gave Usyk a gruelling welcome to the heavyweight division, dragging him the distance before losing a close decision. Four years later, and the odd couple are now pals who meet up at a Ukrainian sauna in London - usually when Usyk, 38, visits to bash up another Brit - and they catch up on the phone. But since Vladimir Putin invaded Usyk's beloved home in 2022, the catch-ups on the blower have been peppered with the sound of bombs. Chisora revealed to SunSport that on one call last year, Usyk explained that while his wife and children were below deck in the bunker, he was in the front room, utterly fearless. And now - on our latest No Glove Lost YouTube show - Del Boy explains how the only chance 27-year-old daddy's boy Dubois has of underdog undisputed glory, is to be madder than mad. Chisora said: 'He's done his training camp in Spain but usually, when he's not there, he's in his front room listening to missiles go over the ceiling. 'You have to understand, Daniel is fighting a guy who's ready to go to war. 'The only way to beat Usyk right now, is to find someone who is more crazy than him. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS "But is anybody crazier than him right now? I don't know. But Daniel has to be." Usyk is not just a 6ft 3in southpaw who won gold at the London 2012 Olympics and cleaned out the cruiserweight division to grab all four belts inside 15 fights. He is a devout Orthodox Christian, a reformed childhood pickpocket and the 12-year-old victim of a horse kick that fractured his skull. Dubois - at his second attempt following a 2023 stoppage loss - is not just fighting the man who bashed up Tony Bellow, and did the double over Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury - he is fighting a myth and a legend of a war-torn nation. Chisora said. 'Daniel has to walk into Wembley Stadium and just become a demon. 'And just go with that. Don't even doubt yourself, just go with it. 7 7 Usyk vs Dubois 2 - All the info OLEKSANDR USYK and Daniel Dubois meet again in a blockbuster heavyweight unification fight at Wembley Stadium THIS SATURDAY! Usyk won the first fight in August 2023 via a ninth round KO - but only after Dubois knocked him to the canvas with a body blow that was ruled a low blow. Dubois, 27, has improved massively since that first meeting, reeling off stunning wins over Jarrell Miller, Filip Hrgovic and Anthony Joshua. Watch Usyk vs Dubois 2 LIVE on DAZN Here's everything you need to know ahead of the big fight... INFO All the info for Usyk vs Dubois 2 Latest ticket availability and price How much are Usyk and Dubois earning for the rematch? Get either fighter at 50/1 to win with talkSPORT BET LATEST NEWS, EXCLUSIVES & FEATURES Inside Dubois' camp - fuelled by Ascot wins and ancient Greece Amateur coach: Dubois so powerful as a teenager I had to tell him to go easy on the adults Dubois SCREAMS in Usyk's face in bizarre face-off Usyk warns Dubois his IQ is too much for the Brit 'But, let's be honest. These Europeans are different from us English. 'We are mummy's boys and those guys are real men. 'He's a religious guy. He's a man of God. 'Do you know when someone's got it all perfect? He's got it all perfect.' 7
The Sun
6 days ago
- Sport
- The Sun
Oleksandr Usyk warns Daniel Dubois his boxing IQ is too much for him ahead of undisputed title fight at Wembley
OLEKSANDR USYK has warned Daniel Dubois that his boxing brain is one nut Britain's best and biggest cannot crack. Derek Chisora gave the 38-year-old Ukraine icon five torrid 2020 rounds before being outpointed. 3 3 3 Anthony Joshua tried to outbox the fox and was handed back-to-back defeats in 2020 and 2021 And 6ft, 9in Tyson Fury tried to abuse and bully the former cruiserweight king and was also handed consecutive 2024 losses. Respectful and reserved Dubois gave it a decent whack in 2023 but he surrendered in the ninth after running out of ideas and energy. But now the rematch is back at Wembley - for all four world titles and undisputed legacy - and Dubois looks like the last Englishman tasked with trying to best the greatest IQ in modern boxing. Chisora told SunSport that Usyk is having his supreme engine and southpaw skills boosted by the ongoing invasion of his beloved country. And he agreed. 'What Chisora said is true.' Usyk told us. "You can't crack my head. 'Everyone wants to talk about their punches or their power. I just wait for my time. I just wait for the bell to go DING and the referee to say: 'box'." Usyk's training regime defies sports science; he swims for hours, ships in the best giants sparring partners from all around the world and throws in mind games and magic tricks - the man can really dance too. But it's his brain that has helped him keep ice cool against verbal and physical provocation from some of the most dangerous men on the planet, while he counters with a gap-toothed grin and a boxing masterclass. 'The brain and the body are the same,' he explained. 'If you have the brain but no fitness, it's bad. In camp with Daniel Dubois ahead of Oleksandr Usyk bout 'But if you have the best conditioning but a weak brain, it's also bad. 'When you do conditioning training, it has to hurt, you have to come through that and that's mental.' One other weapon in Usyk's artillery is the inspiration he takes from his father. Oleksandr Sr died days after his son's 2012 Olympic win, before his boy could get the medal back to him. Instead the gold went into his coffin and, in the following years, pre-fight dreams would be the only time he saw his father. Now his mum Nadiya guides the ship and she had strict instructions for her lad, after the family jewels took an almighty whack in the first fight. 'She told me to have a big groin protector.'
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jermaine Jenas offers cheeky sexting advice as podcast listener asks for help - after he was sacked by the BBC amid his own sexting scandal 11 months ago
Jermaine Jenas has given some cheeky sexting advice to a listener of his podcast, Let Me Tell You Something. In a clip posted to the podcast's Instagram page, a submission was sent in detailing a story of sexting gone wrong. 'I wanted to surprise my wife with a romantic cheeky date night,' wrote the pod listener. 'So when I was at work that morning I thought I'd kick things off by sending here a naughty text, letting her know exactly what I was planning to do with her later. 'After about 15 minutes, I hadn't heard back, and I thought it was a bit was strange. 'So I checked it and I realised I'd actually sent it to her mum. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Let Me Tell You Something... (@lmtysofficial) Jenas apologised for his behaviour while at the BBC and now works as a pundit for talkSPORT 'What do I do? I don't think I can ever see her mum after I've explained the kind things I do to her daughter.' 'Let it ride man, see what happens,' joked Jenas in response, before bursting into laughter alongside co-host Derek Chisora and guest Joe Cole. The cheeky clip has amassed over 60,000 views on Instagram. Jenas, the former Nottingham Forest, Newcastle, Spurs and QPR midfielder, is currently a pundit with talkSPORT. He previously worked for the BBC, working on the One Show and Match of the Day, and was widely seen as a future replacement for Gary Lineker on the station's flagship football show. However, he was sacked last year over complaints about inappropriate communications. It later emerged he was dismissed after sending explicit texts to two female employees at the BBC. In an interview with talkSPORT, Jenas said that his behaviour was inappropriate, saying: 'The biggest thing in this whole situation is about taking responsibility and that has been at the forefront of my mind. 'You need to take responsibility for your actions. There's a reason why you're in this position, and there's a reason why this has happened.
