Who is heavyweight boxing champ

Deontay Wilder. Oleksandr Usyk. Terence Crawford vs. Shawn Porter: Date, fight time, TV channel and live stream. Terence Crawford 12h ago. Jake Paul vs. Jake Paul 14h ago.

It's time to discuss Canelo Alvarez's place among boxing's all-time greats. Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant purse, salaries: How much money will they make in fight? Canelo vs. Plant results: Alvarez finishes Caleb Plant in 11th, become first undisputed pound champion. His wins over Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson make his inclusion in any top-five heavyweight list a no-brainer. Best Win: Lewis bested fellow all-time great Holyfield by unanimous decision in The bout was a rematch of their highly controversial draw the prior year.

The win made Lewis the unified champion and established the talented big man as the best of his era. He earned a total of 21 title bout wins over the course of his career against excellent competition. Holmes probably had the best jab in the history of the division and was adept at throwing punches on the move. Ali was a fantastic boxer with fast hands and feet.

Best Win: Ali probably fought and defeated the best competition of any heavyweight ever, but his best win was probably his upset of George Foreman in The Round 8 knockout of the menacing slugger, Foreman, is simply one of the greatest performances in boxing history. Louis is quite clearly the most accomplished heavyweight champion ever. Best Win: Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in Round 1 in in probably the most significant sporting event of the century.

Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! After the fight, he waved the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag in front of the cameras. But after returning to Kyiv, Usyk poured fueled controversy when he announced that he wanted to bring the world championship belts to Crimea to show them to his coach.

He's planning to face Joshua in the rematch in Kyiv in Usyk, who moved from Simferopol to Kyiv after , when Russia annexed Crimea, regularly travels to the peninsula. He still trains there and calls Crimea home. For years he's been criticized in Ukraine for referring to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people" — just like Russian President Vladimir Putin does. In addition, his ties to the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and his participation in a Russian film about Orthodoxy are a thorn in the side for some.

And whenever a journalist has asked him whether Crimea now belongs to Russia or Ukraine, he dodges the question. It is also a fact that Usyk traveled to the front lines in eastern Ukraine and taught boxing to Ukrainian army soldiers.

However, some fighters have criticized him for statements he has made that they saw as being pro-Russia.

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who like Usyk is from Crimea, was imprisoned in Russia for years after the annexation. He articulated the Ukrainian dilemma on Facebook: How should you deal with prominent Ukrainians who do not call Russia an "aggressor" and maintain ties? Should you try to persuade them to move to Russia, or should you try to change their views? In Russia, Usyk would probably be welcomed with open arms.

Prominent television host Vladimir Solovyov raved about Usyk as "the greatest. Sentsov has described Usyk's remarks as "Putin's propaganda stamps," but suggested "not pushing him away but explaining what it means to feel Ukrainian and why that cannot coexist with the 'Russian world,'" a vision of a cross-border Russian community propagated by Moscow.

This would take time and "help from those who had already grasped their identity," Sentsov said. Iryna Medushevska from Odessa is one of the few influential pro-Ukrainian bloggers who publicly expressed joy at Usyk's victory. As a result, she lost about of her more than 40, subscribers, the blogger told DW. With citizens like Usyk, whose ties to Russia include the Orthodox church," Ukraine will require a lot of patience, Medushevska said: "It's a very long process, he's a church person.

This is far from the first time that sports and politics have been hotly debated in Ukraine. After having won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics back In August, high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh came under fire for having her photo taken with the Russian gold medalist.