Oleksandr Usyk
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Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held the unified heavyweight championship since 2025, and the Ring magazine title since 2022. He held the undisputed championship in two weight classes—cruiserweight and heavyweight—and is the first male boxer to become a three-time undisputed champion in the "four-belt era". With his win over Tyson Fury in 2024, Oleksandr Uysk also became the most recent Lineal Heavyweight Champion.
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Key facts
- Native name
- Олександр Усик
- Nickname
- The Cat
- Born
- ( 1987-01-17 ) 17 January 1987 (age 39) , Simferopol , Crimean Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
- Height
- 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
- Weight
- Cruiserweight Heavyweight
- Website
- usyk .space
- Reach
- 78 in (198 cm)
- Stance
- Southpaw
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oleksandr
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Simferopol
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Lviv State University of Physical Culture
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Sport
- boxing
- Country for sport
- Ukraine
- Mass
- 91
- Image
- Oleksandr Usyk at TIFF 2025.jpg
- Height
- 191
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- date of birth
- 1987-01-17
- Commons category
- Oleksandr Usyk
- start of work period
- 2013-09-11
- social media followers
- 566000
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- sports discipline competed in
- middleweight
- topic's main category
- Category:Oleksandr Usyk
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Encyclopedic overview
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Усик, pronounced [olekˈsɑndr ˈusɪk]; born 17 January 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held the unified heavyweight championship since 2025, and the Ring magazine title since 2022. He held the undisputed championship in two weight classes—cruiserweight and heavyweight—and is the first male boxer to become a three-time undisputed champion in the "four-belt era".
As an amateur, Usyk won heavyweight gold medals at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 Olympics while accumulating a record of 335 wins and 15 losses. He turned professional in 2013, winning his first world title in 2016. By winning the undisputed cruiserweight championship in 2018 at the conclusion of the World Boxing Super Series tournament, Usyk became the first Ukrainian undisputed champion in history. In 2021, Usyk defeated unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to win the WBA, IBF, and WBO titles. In May 2024, Usyk defeated Tyson Fury to claim the WBC title and the undisputed championship in his second weight class, one of only three boxers to do so in the four-belt era. In July 2025, he knocked out Daniel Dubois to become two-time undisputed heavyweight champion, becoming the first boxer to do so since Muhammad Ali and first in the four belt era.
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