Promoter Frank Warren says if you take Oleksandr utility from the equation, the UK is now the center of global heavyweight box. The problem with this is that USKyk is the only heavyweight that has talent.
One could argue that Daniel Dubois is currently the only good British -born heavyweight, and that he is fragile when he is put under pressure. Moses will bite is still an improved prospect, and chances are good that he will be exposed like his brother, Karol, if he is linked to someone with talent.
The old wait
If you remove USyk, you are stuck with the heavyweights at domestic level, many of them old and washed and get a nice pay days on the opposition.
British heavyweights
Daniel Dubois: Vulnerable
Anthony Joshua: 35
Tyson Fury: *36 and retired
Moses Itauma: unproven prospect
Fabio Wardley: Household level
Lawrence environment: unproven
Derek Chisora: 41
Dillian Whyte: 36
Joe Joyce: 39
‘Take out USYC, and we’re the center of global heavyweight box,’ said promoter Frank Warren Sky Sports If it is said, “It is a tremendous time to be a domestic (British) heavyweight.” “All our guys are coming through. When I started in the sport when I looked back at the time, some good fighters.
“You’re going back to Henry Cooper, Joe Bugners, all the big, big names. The legendary names at the time, but none of them won a world title. It was all Americans. Look at it now. It’s all British, and whoever fights, it will always be a British. 95% of them are British, all the top heavyweights of the world. And we are blessed with them. We have a wonderful map here, which will deliver some spectacular battles, ‘says Warren.
None of the current British heavyweights is good enough to stay on top if they are linked to guys with the ability. Joshua and Fury are over. Without them, no one is good enough to hold a world title for any time. Dubois has good offensive skills, but he folds under pressure. He stopped in fighting twice, and he was not cut out to fight at a high level.
Martin Bakole, Jared Anderson and Bakhodir Jalalov are better than 99% of British heavyweights. You can’t count as one of the British because he was born in the Congo.
Last updated on 02/10/2025
