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In a land of giants, a 6’3, 221lb heavyweight is the KING.
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“Let’s not forget; I have the one thing that he (Usyk) doesn’t have, and that’s a punch that can switch lights off within the blink of an eye.”
🗣 Tony Bellew
[September 24, 2018]
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🎥 Eddie Hearn, explaining the complexities of arranging a fight with the Eubank family.
🤔 Edward
@EddieHearn
Will Barry McGuigan be commentating for
#EubankJrBenn
?
[ Video:
@IFLTV
]
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Callum Smith, James DeGale and George Groves have all been rated at
#1
at 168lbs.
This century, however, only 1 Briton has gained recognition as a true, Lineal World Champion at Super Middleweight:
@RealJoeCalzaghe
🇬🇧
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A young
@Tyson_Fury
training at the Kronk Gym, with Emanuel "Manny" Steward.
[Video Credit: CreativeWorldFilms]
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📸 Usyk, asking P4P legend, Manny Pacquiao, for a photo in 2023 🤝
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#P4P
Only one active fighter in boxing has gone to a P4P top 5 fighter’s backyard, and won.
👑
@Tyson_Fury
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🇵🇦 Lightweight King, Roberto Duran.
[Panama City, 1979]
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MMA: “Ngannou is the hardest puncher ever!”
George Foreman:
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According to
@CompuBox
, former Lineal 160lb Champion, Canelo, outlanded Gennady Golovkin in just 4/24 rounds during their two middleweight fights.
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📸 The Baddest Man on the Planet, with the Baddest Woman on the Planet.
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🎞 Ten months after Floyd Mayweather had beaten Canelo, Erislandy Lara outlanded the Mexican 107/97. Lara outlanded him in seven of the 12 rounds, with two rounds even.
🎥
@ShowtimeBoxing
#CaneloRyder
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Canelo pushed.
Plant slapped.
🚘 Heavyweight, Larry Holmes (236lbs), jumped off a car and crushed Trevor Berbick.
#CaneloPlant
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“He’s (
@Tyson_Fury
) the man who beat the man. He is heavyweight boxing, period. He is, nobody else.”
- Mike Tyson
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Terence Crawford is the first fighter to win Lineal World Championships at 135lb, 140lb and 147lb, since Hall of Famer, Barney Ross, achieved the feat 89 years ago!
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In a press-row poll of 58 reporters taken after the rematch between 36-year-old GGG and 28-year-old Canelo, just two had the Mexican winning.
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Taylor/Serrano II 🔥
November 15.
No hype or trash talk needed.
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🏴 The first man to win all the major titles in the 4-belt era, at 168lbs: Joe Calzaghe.
#caneloVsPlant
#Lineal
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🇺🇸 Tank Davis
Years as a professional: 11
Lineal Championship fights: 0
Unification fights: 0
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🏴 “Surprise!”
🇩🇰 “Focking ‘ell!”
Joe Calzaghe, sneaking up behind Mikkel Kessler to surprise him on a Danish TV show, back in 2016.
⚔️ Calzaghe/Kessler - 15 years ago.
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🎞 Oleksandr Usyk, wobbling Anthony Joshua, in round 3 of their 2021 fight.
🎥
@SkySportsBoxing
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💥Number of KO victories against top 10 rated contenders💥
Deontay Wilder: 2
Joe Louis: 27
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🇲🇽 A young Julio Cesar Chavez, with Muhammad Ali 🇺🇸
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“6’3 Muhammad Ali would have been too small to beat this era’s super heavyweights.”
#FuryUsyk
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Tyson Fury Vs Oleksandr Usyk:
The greatest heavyweight fight of the 21st century?
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🎞 Amir Khan, flooring heavy handed Argentinian, Marcos Maidana, with a thudding liver shot in round one of their 2010 fight. Remarkably, Maidana got back up and went on to have a back and forth 12-round war with the Englishman.
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🏴 Joe Calzaghe
👑 Lineal Super Middleweight Champ
🏆 Ring Light Heavyweight Champ
🌏 46-0. Undefeated
⭐️ Hall of Fame
🏅 British ABA Welterweight Champ
🏅 British ABA Jr Middleweight Champ
🏅 British ABA Middleweight Champ
#StDavidsDay
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💥Number of KO victories against top 10 rated contenders💥
Deontay Wilder: 2
Lennox Lewis: 12
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Congratulations to Oleksandr Usyk on beating Tyson Fury by split decision to become THE heavyweight KING! 👏
What a fight!
The Man that beat The Man.
Usyk has joined boxing’s LEGENDARY list of LINEAL heavyweight champions!
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📸 Reigning women’s Lineal Middleweight Champion, Claressa Shields, pictured with former men’s Lineal Middleweight Champion, Miguel Cotto 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
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♠️P4P Aces: Canelo, Serrano and Crawford, pictured together in 2016.
🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
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🇰🇿 Golovkin landed 44% more punches on Canelo in 2017, than Bivol landed on Canelo last night.
#CaneloBivol
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📸 The current women’s P4P
#1
@Claressashields
with the former men’s P4P
#1
@FloydMayweather
#GWOAT
#TBE
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“Can I tell you something? In this situation, every head must bow, every tongue must confess - this is the greatest of all-time.”
-
@MikeTyson
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Roy Jones Junior, age 25, beating the world’s No.1-ranked super middleweight (and former lineal middleweight champion), James Toney.
[November 18, 1994]
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🎞 After having one of the worst rounds of his pro. career, Oleksandr Usyk comes out for round 10 like a man possessed, boxes beautifully and dominates Anthony Joshua.
⚔️
#Usyk
🇺🇦
[
@SkySportsBoxing
]
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CompuBox does not count a jab as a power punch.
Golovkin’s jab:
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🤔 A former cruiserweight king winning the lineal and undisputed heavyweight crown when outweighed by 38lb.
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“Let’s not forget; I have the one thing that he (Usyk) doesn’t have, and that’s a punch that can switch lights off within the blink of an eye.”
🇬🇧 Tony Bellew
[September 24, 2018]
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🌍 At the end of 2019, Deontay Wilder was at the peak of his powers, undefeated in 43 fights and ranked as the No.1 heavyweight in the world.
[Ratings: TBRB]
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🇩🇪He'll never beat Klitschko in Germany...
...He'll never fight again...
...He'll never lose the weight...
🇺🇸He'll never fight Wilder in America...
One world.
One Heavyweight World Champion.
👑Tyson Fury's reign continues 🌎
@BenDavison_
[Video Credit:
@BTSportBoxing
]
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39lb is the biggest weight disadvantage a boxer has overcome to beat a reigning lineal champion since Baer/Carnera almost 90 years ago!
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🔥 In the last three years
@alyciambaum
has:
🇧🇪 Knocked down Persoon
🇫🇷 Beaten Mekhaled
🇺🇸 Taken Mayer’s “0”
🇬🇧 KO’d Harper
Jr. Lightweight QUEEN: 2022 - Present
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🇬🇧 Joe Calzaghe 🇬🇧
👑 Lineal Super Middleweight Champ
🏆 Ring Light Heavyweight Champ
🌏 46-0. Undefeated
⭐️ Hall of Fame
🏅 British ABA Welterweight Champ
🏅 British ABA Jr Middleweight Champ
🏅 British ABA Middleweight Champ
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🩸 Flashback to when Canelo Alvarez went in for the kill, to finish off Caleb Plant and become KING at 168lb.
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👽 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins doing push-ups while he waits for champion, Jean Pascal, to come out for round 7.
🤯 Hopkins didn’t just win a belt, he won the Lineal Light Heavyweight Championship, and he did it on Pascal’s home turf.
[May 21, 2011. Montreal, Canada]
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👑 Two Kings of the Ring.
🇬🇧 80 fights. No losses.
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The sanctioning bodies will tell you otherwise, but the fans don't forget.
👑The Man that beat The Man👑
#Undefeated
#Lineal
@Tyson_Fury
🇬🇧
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@chieflamper
@MichellePhelps
@Tyson_Fury
@BehindTheGloves
Just over 110 years ago Hall of Famer Jack Johnson made his 4th defence of The Heavyweight World Championship. He didn't have or need a belt. He was The Man that beat The Man.
On June 15th Fury makes his 4th defence of The Heavyweight World Championship. No belt required.
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Since 2016, there have been seven LINEAL Champions between 130 - 140lb:
Skakur Stevenson (130)
Teofimo Lopez x2 (135 & 140)
George Kambosos (135)
Devin Haney (135)
Terence Crawford (140)
Josh Taylor (140)
❗️Tank Davis hasn’t fought any of them.
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“I don’t want to lose to a white boy either…
“…or a green boy, or a brown boy, or a red boy, or whatever other colour they want to bring to me.”
@RealJoeCalzaghe
[2008] 🏴
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When Canelo moved up to 175, he challenged Kovalev and Bivol.
After Benavidez moved up to 175, he called out Canelo.
Who is the REAL MONSTER?
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De La Hoya was the REAL DEAL.
🥇 Olympic Lightweight Gold
👑 Lineal Jr. Welterweight Champ
👑 Lineal Welterweight Champ
👑 Lineal Jr. Middleweight Champ
🏆 Six-division titlist
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Happy birthday to
@Tyson_Fury
! 🎂
Fury now joins Larry Holmes as the only two boxers in history, to still be reigning as UNDEFEATED Lineal Heavyweight World Champion by the time of their 35th birthday!
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“He’s kidding.”
🇺🇦 🇬🇧 Flashback to Usyk/Bellew
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🖼 How it started …. 📸 How it’s going
Happy birthday to P4P
#1
& reigning two-weight Lineal Champ
@Claressashields
!!! 🎂
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🔥 As an amateur, Artur Beterbiev’s wins included:
🇺🇦 Oleksandr Usyk
🇷🇺 Sergey Kovalev
🇺🇸 Michael Hunter
🇺🇦 Oleksandr Gvozdyk
🇨🇺 Yuniel Dorticos
#Beterbiev
#BeterbievSmithJr
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⚔️ OTD in 2007 Calzaghe/Kessler clashed in Cardiff, Wales.
⏩ Nine years later, Calzaghe surprised his old foe!
⚠️ “Focking ‘ell!”
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After 24 rounds of boxing with GGG, according to
@CompuBox
Canelo only outlanded Gennady in 4 rounds.
#CaneloGGG3
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The REAL 175lb KING:
@ABeterbiev
👑 4 years as Lineal Champion.
⏰ 10 years undefeated.
🧨 100% KO record.
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Joe Calzaghe 🇬🇧 46-0
Victories:
✅Eubank
✅Lacy
✅Kessler
✅Hopkins
✅RJJ
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🎥 Beterbiev, flooring Usyk with a body shot in the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships.
#BeterbievYarde
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🎉 👏 A huge congratulations to
@Tyson_Fury
whose Lineal Heavyweight Championship reign has now surpassed Jack Dempsey’s, to become the second longest in the history of the heavyweight division!
Only Joe Louis ever had a longer Lineal Heavyweight reign than the Gypsy King.
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🎞 22-year-old Marco Antonio Barrera improving his record to 41-0, in devastating fashion.
May 4th, 1996.
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📸 The reigning Heavyweight World Champion
@Tyson_Fury
and reigning Middleweight World Champion
@Claressashields
pictured together at UFC245, back in January 2020.
#LinealChampions
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🥶 Canelo has been facing top-two-ranked fighters/contenders for seven consecutive years.
2023: Charlo (Lineal, 154)
2022: Bivol (
#1
, 175), GGG (
#1
, 160)
2021: Plant (
#2
, 168)
2020: Smith (
#1
, 168)
2019: Kovalev (
#2
, 175), Jacobs (
#2
, 160)
2018: GGG (
#1
, 160)
2017: GGG (
#1
, 160)
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👊🏾
@shaygreen35
may have the hardest right hand in women’s boxing.
🧨 Who wants
#DezurnGreen
?!
[ 🎥
@MatchroomBoxing
]
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🇬🇧 The most famous punch of Daniel Dubois’ career so far:
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Katie Taylor has faced the best fighters in the world at lightweight and junior welterweight during her 6-year pro. career…yet the person who came closest to stopping her, was a former 118lb titlist.
#Serrano
🇵🇷 🧨
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Congratulations to
@Tyson_Fury
who has now surpassed Klitschko to have the 4th longest Lineal Championship reign in heavyweight history 👏
1️⃣ Louis: 11 years 8 months
2️⃣ Dempsey: 7 years 2 months
3️⃣ Ali: 7 years
4️⃣ Fury 6 years 5 months 9 days
5️⃣ WK: 6 years 5 months 8 days
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When was the last time there was a
#1
Vs
#2
match-up between 2 unbeaten Heavyweights❓
...make the most of
#furywilder2
@Tyson_Fury
@BronzeBomber
🇬🇧🇺🇸🌎👑
#Lineal
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The Man that beat The Man
Pascal - Hopkins - Dawson - Stevenson - Gvozdyk - BETERBIEV
LINEAL 175lb King
@ABeterbiev
#BeterbievBivol
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Before The Monster…the 122lb weight class had El Chacal
🇨🇺 Guillermo Rigondeaux
🥇x2 Olympic gold medals
🥇x2 World gold medals
🥇x7 Cuban national champion
👑 Lineal Junior Featherweight World Champion: 2013 - 2022
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The only Lineal Middleweight KING in boxing history who went on to defeat the No.1 cruiserweight in the world:
James Toney
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🤜 One of the best fights that can be made in 2023:
💥 Beterbiev Vs Bivol
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🎬One of the last camps David Haye had while still close to his best, before injury forced him to retire. Sparring, including smashing a 27 year old Deontay Wilder.
In 2013, Haye would have presented a considerable problem for Tyson Fury.
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"Tyson Fury has the ability, and I think in my expectations, will be the next super star, dominant Heavyweight, much along the lines of
@LennoxLewis
and Wladimir Klitschko."
- Emanuel Steward
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“He’ll never get a shot at me now. Finished.
“He’s conveniently waited until the contract’s expired before he’s opened his mouth for the last 8 months.”
- Tyson Fury
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🎥 Frazier Vs Norton. 1970.
Two undefeated, superbly conditioned heavyweights. Norton, boxing beautifully, and Smokin’ Joe, looking unstoppable.
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"You can go right down into the well of guts and resilience"
Ahead of his 2018 ring return
@piersmorgan
interviewed Heavyweight King
@Tyson_Fury
📺
...A brutal knockdown against Wilder
...A wound that needed 47 stitches
Fury has certainly backed up his words since then 🥊👑
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🚮 The IBF will strip Usyk soon, but it doesn’t matter.
Usyk is The Man that beat The Man; a sanctioning body can’t strip that.
The REAL crown is won IN THE RING.
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🏴 This Saturday will be the first time
@JoshTaylorBoxer
has faced an opponent with a loss on his record since beating Viktor Postol (29-1) 5 years ago!
#TaylorLopez
#LinealChamp
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TYSON FURY
🇩🇪 Beat Klitschko in Germany to become the heavyweight king.
🇺🇸 KO’d Wilder twice in America.
🏆 Won all four major ABC belts at heavyweight.
👑 Second longest Lineal Heavyweight Championship reign in history.
⚔️ Only loss, by split decision to the current P4P
#1
.
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🥇 Two Olympic Golds
🥇 Two World Championship Golds
👑 Two-weight LINEAL Champion
🌟 Two wins over P4P-ranked fighters
🥶 UNDEFEATED as a professional.
@Claressashields
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