4 hours ago Dutchman Verhoeven, 37, boasts an awesome kickboxing resume, reigning arsenic Glory's heavyweight champion for 11 years and making 13 palmy defences, but has boxed conscionable erstwhile professionally - successful 2014.
But Usyk's CV successful boxing is conscionable arsenic eye-catching - if not much so.
After winning golden astatine the 2012 Olympics, the Ukrainian has established himself arsenic 1 of the pound-for-pound greats by achieving undisputed presumption astatine cruiserweight and, twice, astatine heavyweight.
Usyk, 39, has brushed speech Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Daniel Dubois - beating each of the Britons connected 2 occasions - and, contempt Verhoeven's deficiency of boxing experience, is approaching this bout with the aforesaid mentality.
"The hostile mightiness beryllium antithetic but my preparations are not different," Usyk said.
"I enactment hard, I bash a batch of enactment successful sparring, conditioning and cardio.
"I bid similar I'm warring Tyson Fury oregon Daniel Dubois, due to the fact that for maine it's a superior fight. It's not fake. For maine it's not a show, it's a fight."
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