THE YEAR 2023 should be a huge one for the heavyweight division. At the very top, we hope it’s when we get the most important showdown since Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield fought twice in 1999, with Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk in negotiations to meet in a contest that will decide the first universally recognised number one since Lewis retired. Just below them, former belt-holders Deontay Wilder and Andy Ruiz Jnr are set to collide in an intriguing eliminator and Anthony Joshua hopes to rediscover the confidence that fuelled his all-conquering arrival a decade ago.
Rumours surrounding Joshua’s opponent continued as we went to press, with the unproven Demsey McKean (22-0), the latest to be
