Usyk 'once in a generation' fighter - Warren - video Dailymotion

Promoter Frank Warren hails 'tremendous' Oleksandr Usyk after his knockout win over Daniel Dubois

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00:00I mean 38 maybe people were hoping that he was going to show a bit of age

00:04We were all hoping that we're Brits

00:06He's a British fighter I was hoping that

00:08But he's got really strong resilience

00:12I mean he's a unique guy isn't he

00:14He's undefeated still

00:16He's undefeated as a professional fighter

00:1938 years of age you said coming up to 39

00:23He's a tremendous tremendous fighter

00:25Fighters 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 16 and a half stone tonight

00:36Whatever he weighed in at

00:38I look back at Mike Tyson wasn't a big heavyweight

00:41Vander Holyfield wasn't

00:43David Hay wasn't

00:44You look at so many fighters over the years

00:46That have come up through the weights

00:48And done what they had to do

00:49And he's obviously been a heavyweight now

00:52For 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 Southpawer

01:03He's an awkward sod