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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00:00Just 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.