Usyk v Rico

Oleksandr Usyk will step back into the ring for the first time in nearly 12 months this week when he takes on Rico Verhoeven in Egypt. The Ukrainian heavyweight king will go head-to-head with the Dutch kickboxing legend in a spectacular clash at the Pyramids of Giza.

It's safe to say Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) will hold the upper hand going into the contest, as the unified heavyweight champion of the world meets a kickboxer with only one professional boxing bout to his name. It represents Usyk's first fight since July 2025, when he knocked out Daniel Dubois in July 2025 to become a two-time world heavyweight king.

how in fcks name does a bloke with 1 boxing fight 12yr ago get such a chance?

Probably because idiots will pay to watch the farce

sew rico jumps in front of the top heavyweight contenders? walofs

whills 1/14

Was worth posting this thread but it pushes the It’s Finnish thread of yours done a bit don’t it!

rico rico rico

1.07

enniwon loaded up?

I must admit 1.06 against a kickboxer seems very fair,of course Rico is 3st heavier so with heavyweights 1 punch can end a contest but Usyk has beaten way heavier opponents easily before,gl if having a bet.

The Sphinx win it.

usyk went 1.1 1st round

Meanwhile two men who were seen in a brawl with police at Manchester airport are freeundits reckon rico won 5 of 1st 6rnds and usyk still 1/5

he's 1.2 now have you gone back in

pundits reckon rico won 5 of 1st 6 rnds and usyk still 1/5 Confused

1.4

1.6 unbelieveable geoff

just when you think you've seen it all..

dazn pundit scores 1st 7 rnds to rico

evens each pmsl..

rico 4/6

2-5 rico with b365

easy money

pi$$ing my pants..ewe cud not mek it up...

wd rico..another winner for the forum...golf/boxing expert.

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Level on 2 judges cards after 10 rounds and Rico 1 up on the other.

Eddie Ahern would look straight compared to that ref.

usyk win = 2 replies

rico wins = 76

I'm a buyer at 76 replies

Level on 2 judges cards after 10 rounds and Rico 1 up on the other. ... So even if he hadn't stopped it after a 10-8 round, Usyk would've been ahead on all 3 scorecards.

so it was either going to be crooked scoring, or crooked stoppage then CB

Usyk was getting pummelled most of fight

The scoring looked very and surprisingly fair from the reported.  Then Usyk ko'd him.  It's just noise and a distorted picture (ahead on the scorecards, when not ahead in reality) to create headlines

There is some very dodgy scoring from time to time.  This wasn't one of them.

from the reported stats

whatever, it was a circus fight really.

boxing is a circus

Five (is it) World Champions?  BS but the public buy it.  A lifetime avoiding people, a succession of fodder.  In this case, one fight in a year, and then it's against an undeserved opponent.  It is what it is, but there is no such thing as 5 world champions.  That's an oxymoron

Drug cheats galore, gangsters (literally) partly running the sport.  A back catalogue of thrown and fixed fights.

bearing in mind there was only a few seconds left of the 11th the ref could have given him a standing count and let him come out for the 12th..if there had been 1 min left of the 11th i think usyk would have stopped him..a minutes rest and who knows.

Usyk looked out of shape (for him) and it showed across most of the fight, until the stoppage.