The British title may be the hardest to keep in boxing. It’s a simple system: the champion faces the No. 1 contender and settles it in the ring. No politics. No shortcuts.
It’s only March and we already have the fight of the year. The Najee Lopez (16–0, 13 KOs) vs. Manuel Gallegos (22–4-1, 19 KOs) fight was an instant classic.
When Oleksandr Usyk faces off against Rico Verhoeven in front of the great Pyramids in Giza, he will do something no heavyweight champion has done in fifty years.