Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven

It feels quite stupid to make a pick for this one. Barring accidents, how can Rico possibly win? Famous last words! ‘Anything can happen in boxing’ is an old adage; another is ‘It only takes one punch in heavyweight boxing’, both perfectly true, but when you consider the vast gap in experience in each’s professional boxing lives, there can only be one winner. Verhoeven has made a career in kickboxing as an extremely tough dude, a GLORY world heavyweight champion capable of finding a way to win in 13 title defences. If Usyk and Verhoeven were meeting in a kickboxing event, I would pick Rico to win 10/10 times, and so I have to pick Oleksandr to triumph here.