Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven - FULL FIGHT HIGHLIGHTS 😱🔥

Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to rumble!Introducing first, fighting out of the blue corner, wearing black, trimmed with gold and orange, his official weight, 258 .7 pounds.This international combat sports legend from 2013 until a few months ago when he vacated his title, was undefeated in the combat ring.Ladies and gentlemen, the challenger, the former undisputed kickboxing heavyweight world champion from Halseren, Netherlands the king of kickboxing Ricardo Rico across the ring fighting out of the red corner wearing burgundy trimmed with gold weighing in at 233 .3 pounds since capturing olympic gold in 2012 he now has a perfect professional record 24 victories in 24 fights.15 big wins by knockout.He's captured two division championships.

Ladies and gentlemen, from Kiev, Ukraine, the former undisputed cruiserweight world champion.Now the ring, WBC, WBA, universally recognized, linear, unbeaten heavyweight champion of the world.

Two heavyweight champions from different worlds with the ancient pyramids behind them.Can Rico pull off one of the biggest upsets in the history of combat sports or will Usyk beat, batter, bury him in the Egyptian desert tonight?12 rounds for the heavyweight championship of Usyk.

To be the boss, try and be the aggressor here.

A lot of footwork and movement from Rico to strike.

bit of movement there from van hoover there's the right move it is that's important you're busy you're working you're looking confident

music, though he obviously doesn't have to.of this man here shaking their corner every single one of his team i tell you something though alexander uzi got a little jail there i'm telling you go he might have got the stoppage in the next round he might have got the stoppage with a couple of more shots but he got a little jail there for sure well that was a hard fight disaster averted for the heavyweight champion of the world we know what's going to happen and then you get this None of this was meant to happen.It was a lovely finish though from Alexander Nuzik.The quality of the work.

That right uppercut.Absolute peach of a shot, it really was.

But again though, it's Verhoeven trying to fight with the bravery, just swinging.He was fatigued, a little bit hurt, but swinging got him into trouble.He got too greedy.No, he's just so tired, but rather than use his smarts and take a break, he's going, this is not how I fight.If I'm going to fight like a champion, just put it on him.Put it on him.

It's worked all my life for me.

Wow.I mean, it tells you something when the referee has to get between two men fighting each other to stop the fight.

We've already said this throughout, but what a superb effort that was for Hoeven.Whether you agree with the stoppage or not, you cannot disagree.That was superb, what he was able to do there.

Well champions find ways to win and that's what Alexander did here in the 11th round.

The winner by TKO victory still undefeated and still the ring WBC WBA universally recognized lineal undefeated heavyweight champion of the worldZander