Oleksandr Usyk may be undefeated as an expert boxer, but ‘The Cat’ did suffer 15 losses on the amateur scene – including in 2006 against Shawn ‘Showtime’ Porter.
As boxing fanatics world wide sit up for the big heavyweight rematch against Tyson Fury in Saudi Arabia, many are wondering how the previous welterweight champion was capable of defeat the sensational Ukrainian.
Shawn Porter reveals how he beat Oleksandr Usyk within the amateurs
Oleksandr Usyk suffered 15 losses on the amateur scene before turning pro in 2013; certainly one of those defeats got here by the hands of Artur Beterbiev, whilst one other was scored by American icon Shawn ‘Showtime’ Porter.
“I’m roughly 5’7” now – I used to be just about that then – Usyk was not as tall as he’s now and [he was] slim at 165lbs, but he could box,” stated Porter in an old episode of his PorterWay Podcast.
“It was a very good match,” noted the previous welterweight champion on his unanimous decision (23-20) victory, before revealing exactly how he got it done.
“It was a detailed fight the entire way, but going into the last round, my dad was coaching me, and we had this other guy Dan Campbell, he was the 2008 Olympic coach, he’s down on the ground putting the stool in, putting the bucket in, putting the water in.
“Going into that fourth round, before I walked out and the bell rang, he said ‘Shawn, in the event you line him up, he’s there for the fitting hand – in the event you throw a straight right, you’ll land it and get him’. And that’s exactly what happened.”
In accordance with Porter, as soon as he followed through on Campbell’s advice, he was capable of line Usyk up after which land a picture-perfect straight right hand that wobbled the Ukrainian.
“We’re moving around and doing our thing, and I land this right hand on Usyk – and he stumbled back. And Shawn Porter, y’all already know, I jumped on him and ended up winning 23-20… It was an awesome fight, and I promise y’all, for an amateur fight, that was value paying for man.”
Whilst lesser fighters might develop into obsessive about the undeniable fact that they’d beaten Usyk within the ring, Porter stated on a later Podcast episode that he’d almost forgotten about their fight completely.
“I remember when my hand was raised, I remember pondering to myself that I earned that win – that wasn’t a fight where I got the victory simply because he got here over to the US, I needed to earn that win.
“I used to be within the Ukraine in 2018, and it was all love man, people would actually [come up] and speak about that fight [when] I had completely forgotten all about it.”
Shawn Porter shares prediction for Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury 2
Chatting with FightHubTV, Porter would offer his prediction on the upcoming heavyweight rematch between Usyk and ‘The Gypsy King’, teasing that the clash on December 21 is “Tyson Fury’s fight to lose.
“And what I mean by that, in the primary fight we saw that he was greater, he was stronger, he was sharper from the surface, [but] he had a moment where he was complacent, and he paid for it by losing the fight. He lost the entire second a part of the fight.”
Porter initially sounded cautious about making a definitive pick, explaining how there are some things in skilled boxing that you just just can’t measure.
“Nevertheless, the thing that I cannot ignore here is 2 things: the greatness of Oleksandr Usyk and the wars and the mileage on Tyson Fury… That mileage is something that we are able to’t really measure and the greatness of Oleksandr Usyk, we are able to’t measure that either.”
“I feel in the primary fight, we knew that it was 50/50 and it really was a 50/50 fight, same thing with the second but I’m willing to bet that Tyson Fury wins this one.”
Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk 2 goes down live from the Kingdom Arena in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, December 21.
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