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WHICHEVER way you cut it, the heavyweight division is booming. After Oleksandr Usyk defeated Anthony Joshua in their rematch a few weeks ago, we now wait and see what happens with Tyson Fury. On Monday he called out Joshua on social media after Usyk rejected his advances.

Usyk, having returned to his homeland of Ukraine, held a press conference to reflect on his win and look ahead to the future. He spoke a lot about both Fury and Joshua.

Speaking on the latter, Usyk was all class and made it clear he holds no illwill towards Joshua after the

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