Aleksandr Usik is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles since 2021, The Ring magazine heavyweight title since 2022, and the undisputed cruiserweight title from 2018 to 2019, being the first cruiserweight champion to hold all four major world titles.
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Aleksandr Usik is widely regarded as one of the greatest Ukrainian boxers of all time.
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Aleksandr Usik turned professional in 2013 and won the undisputed cruiserweight championship in his 15th professional fight in 2018.
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Aleksandr Usik is particularly notable for the speed of his accomplishments, winning his first world title in his tenth fight, and becoming the undisputed champion of his weight class by his fifteenth fight.
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Aleksandr Usik is ranked as the best heavyweight by TBRB, BoxRec and ESPN.
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Aleksandr Usik's mother worked in construction and moved to Simferopol to study.
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Aleksandr Usik's father was a military man who passed through Afghanistan, working as a security guard in Crimea, and the two met there.
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Aleksandr Usik is the first born of his family and he has two siblings.
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Aleksandr Usik is a graduate of Lviv State University of Physical Culture.
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Aleksandr Usik then moved up to light-heavyweight later and won the Strandja Cup in 2008.
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Aleksandr Usik dropped down to light-heavyweight and won gold at the 2008 European Championships, but later moved back up to heavyweight.
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Aleksandr Usik's wife has Russian citizenship and the boxer uses Russian as his first language.
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