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Promoter Frank Warren hails 'tremendous' Oleksandr Usyk after his knockout win over Daniel Dubois
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00:00Just on Usyk, in 38, I mean, maybe people were hoping that he was going to show a bit of age.
00:04We were all hoping that. We're Brits. He's a British fighter. I was hoping that.
00:09But he's got really strong resilience. I mean, he's a unique guy, isn't he?
00:14He's undefeated still. He's undefeated as a professional fighter.
00:20Was he 38 years of age, you said? Coming up to 39.
00:23He's a tremendous, tremendous fighter.
00:25You know, fighters like him come along once in a generation.
00:30I don't buy into that thing about being a small guy.
00:33He's a, what was he, 16 and a half stone tonight?
00:36Whatever he weighed in at.
00:38I look back at Mike Tyson wasn't a big heavyweight.
00:42Vander Holyfield wasn't. David Hay wasn't.
00:44You look at so many fighters over the years that have come up through the weights
00:48and done what they had to do.
00:50And he's obviously been a heavyweight now, what, for three or four years.
00:53So it's not like he's just done that.
00:55He's grown into being a heavyweight.
00:57And he matches people with his ring IQ.
01:01He's got a great ring IQ.
01:02And he's a Southpaw. He's an awkward sod.

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