{"id":335565,"date":"2025-08-11T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335565\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:14:09","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-made-to-bleed-in-sparring-by-top-heavyweight-he-knows-ill-beat-him-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335565\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk ‘Made To Bleed’ In Sparring By Top Heavyweight: “He Knows I’ll Beat Him Easy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> may only have one or two fights left, and one heavyweight is keen to make sure he gets his shot.<\/p>\n

Usyk had completed boxing by any measure. He is a three-time undisputed champion across two divisions and the first man to ever be twice undisputed at heavyweight in the four-belt era.<\/p>\n

He has beaten Anthony Joshua<\/a>, Tyson Fury and Daniel Dubois on two occasions each<\/a> and is now at the end of his career as he approaches 40-years-old, so is carefully deciding who to fight next, if anyone.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Seconds Out, Martin Bakole<\/a> has thrown his hat in the ring again and shared one of his brutal sparring stories, which includes having Usyk in all sorts of trouble.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo be honest, Usyk knows himself, every time I go there to spar him I always give him trouble. They only give me two rounds. That two rounds is hell. He knows.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was sparring the first time, I was giving him a hard time, he starts shouting, went mad, jumped out of the ring, started shouting at his coach. I never said this before but ask his team, they know, he was bleeding everywhere. And that was the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey called me again in Dubai, and I only did two rounds. But in that two rounds, he was in trouble. So he knows that Martin Bakole in a fight I will smoke him easy. These people know, that\u2019s why they\u2019re quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He then expanded his claims further before doubling down on his prediction.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou remember at The Ring Magazine show they was asking me questions, he was over my shoulder saying hey that was sparring. No, he got knocked out.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though I stopped him there is no story to tell. It\u2019s true. I tell you I beat him like a baby, he was out of the ring, his coach was asking what to do, and he couldn\u2019t do it. They started speaking Ukrainian and I kept standing in the ring, he got out, then about three or four minutes he came back again.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsyk, I always say this, people say I\u2019m crazy, but the only man who can stop Usyk right now is Martin Bakole.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bakole got stopped inside two rounds by Joseph Parker<\/a> earlier this year, before he was then held to a draw with Efe Ajagba in May.<\/p>\n

Parker is now WBO mandatory for Usyk, so is higher up the list of possible opponents than Bakole, though a fight with Jake Paul in MMA has also been mentioned.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk may only have one or two fights left, and one heavyweight is keen to make sure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-335565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115009844902706662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}