I'm sure friends have recently watched Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usik and Tyson Fury vs. Deonta Wilder, two of today's heavyweight pinnacles.
After watching these games, you may be disappointed by Anthony Joshua's defeat, you may be surprised by Oleksandel Usik's victory, you may be sorry for Deonta Wilder falling to the ground, or you may cheer for Tyson Fury's victory. But you have to admit that these are exactly what attracts the heavyweight as the brightest pearl in professional boxing.
In order to be able to show themselves on the most dazzling stage of this professional boxing arena, in addition to heavyweight boxers, countless light heavyweight and sub-heavyweight top boxers are also trying to enter the heavyweight first.
As the world champion of the IBO heavyweight organization, South African boxer Kevin Lerena is naturally not immune, and he has announced that he will officially enter the heavyweight class in February next year and start a new career journey.
In fact, the speculation that Kevin Lerenner will rise to the heavyweight has never stopped, and in Kevin Lerina's last game, his actual weight has exceeded the weight limit of the subweight boxer, which is the weight of a standard heavyweight boxer. Now, Kevin Lerena's official manifesto and the world ranking of 25th in the professional boxing heavyweight given by the third-party data statistics platform Boxrec have put an end to all speculation.
No official confirmation is needed, and Kevin Lerena himself has admitted that he will give up the IBO heavyweight World Champion Gold Belt he has held for four years and move to the heavyweight field.
It is almost certain that the successful ascension of the previous heavyweight world overlord Oleksander Usik to defeat heavyweight world boxing champion Anthony Joshua gave Kevin Lerener great inspiration and encouragement. So Kevin Lerena intends to emulate Oleksandr Usik and prove himself on the heavyweights as well.
But for Kevin Lerena, his disadvantages are also obvious. The current heavyweight is the world of giants, and compared with Tyson Fury (2m 06), Anthony Joshua (1m 98), de onta Verde (2m 01), Kevin Lerena, who is only 1.86m tall, is undoubtedly too weak in the eyes of the boxing media.
However, there are always exceptions to everything, and the boxer who has achieved the most success from the subweight to the heavyweight is Ivand Hollyfield, one of the four kings, and ivand Hollyfield, who is 1 meter 89 tall, after becoming the undisputed overlord of the subweight, has no hesitation in switching to the heavyweight, and after competing with the best boxers of the same era such as Mike Tyson, Ridick Bowe, and Lennox Lewis, he has become the only boxer in the entire history of boxing to win the heavyweight boxing king four times. And together with the above three, it created a golden age of professional boxing that belonged to the heavyweight.
It was also because of his epoch-making performance that Evand Hollyfield officially became a member of the Hall of Fame in Las Vegas on August 10, 2014, and wrote his name in the history of professional boxing.
After Ivan Hollyfield, david Haye, a sub-heavyweight boxer from the United Kingdom, has also successfully continued the glory of the next heavyweight top boxer. Although not comparable to Ivand Hollyfield in terms of achievements, David Haye also made the most memorable memories of his career in 2009 by beating the giant Nikolai Varuev (2.13 meters) with a height of 1.91 meters.
As for whether Kevin Lerena can continue the glory of his predecessors? Maybe only time can tell us in the future.
(Note: South Africa has been rich in the past with excellent heavyweight boxers, such as former WBO World Champion and South African Police Officer Corey Sanders; White Buffalo Francis Bossa; K-1 and Boxing Champion Mike Bernardo)
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