Oleksandr Usyk once rocked a beloved heavyweight to his core, with the recipient of the punch confessing that the Ukrainian got the better of him.
While many know the heavyweight champion for his slick boxing skills, his punches can have an accumulative effect.
Dave Allen claims Oleksandr Usyk knocked him out in sparring
Throughout his career, Dave Allen has developed a reputation for his iron jaw, with ‘The Doncaster De La Hoya’ going the distance with Dillian Whyte and taking some thudding blows from Luis Ortiz.
However, during a spar with Oleksandr Usyk, he was nailed with a shot so hard, it nearly left him flat on the canvas.
At the time, Allen shared a clip of the session, in which his adversary is working out in a pair of boxers and a vest.
Noticing the Englishman’s hands down, Usyk detonated a devastating hook, which left ‘The White Rhino’ in a state of disarray.
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Opening up about the experience, Allen said: “If you can hear at around the five-second mark, I do a very loud snore—this is my last idea of what happened for the next 30 minutes.
“I didn’t go down, and I finished the round, but for all intents and purposes, I’m knocked out from the second the left lands.”
Tyson Fury says there’s a heavyweight better than him and Oleksandr Usyk
with a sensational engine and a remarkable fighting IQ, Usyk has proven himself as the greatest heavyweight of the modern era, with the southpaw keen to put the icing on the cake in his rematch with Tyson Fury.
The icons are scheduled to go head-to-head on Saturday night, in a fight that has gripped the attention of fans around the world.
However, as good as they both are, ‘The Gypsy King’ is adamant that there’s a boxer out there with more talent than both of them.
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