Oleksandr Usyk started it all when he made the unprecedented business decision to vacate his remaining alphabet collection while explicitly maintaining that he is not retiring. Instead, the Ukrainian maestro has chosen to defend his lineal crown on his own terms against marquee, handpicked challenges—leaving the sanctioning bodies to scramble and distribute four splintered world titles.
Now, we find ourselves in the bizarre situation of having five different men claiming heavyweight supremacy. But make no mistake: just like the historical precedents of Michael Spinks, George Foreman, Shannon Briggs, and Tyso
