Teddy Atlas believes there is only one fighter throughout the sport’s present period that can go down as one of many biggest ever.
Atlas labored with a variety of nice fighters throughout his years as a coach, together with the likes of former world heavyweight champion Michael Moorer, and former world gentle heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk to call a couple of.
After transferring away from his duties as a coach, Atlas stepped into the world of broadcasting the place he has hung out working as an analyst and commentator for ESPN, HBO and Showtime, proving himself to be one of many ‘voices’ of the game over the past three a long time.
Talking on his personal YouTube podcast THE FIGHT, Atlas broke down his checklist of who he believes are the best fighters of all time, together with the likes of Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard.
However when requested if he believes there may be any fighter of the present period that would ultimately make his checklist, he named none apart from reigning unified world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, who has cemented himself as one in every of, if not the best fighter of his era.
“It could be fairly laborious, the period is totally different. Usyk is likely to be the one one, [Naoya] Inoue is nice, [Terence] Crawford is nice, however they’re not going to have a possibility to go down the roads that these fighters went down, these roads and alternatives don’t exist any extra, that period is gone. You need to go down a few of these roads to get on this checklist.”
Usyk has had knowledgeable profession that many fighters might solely want for. The Ukrainian famous person is simply the second fighter within the historical past of boxing to seize the undisputed championship within the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, matched solely by Evander Holyfield.
