By Geoffrey Ciani – 06/03/2024 – Feedback
The Lineal World Heavyweight Championship – from John L Sullivan to Oleksandr Usyk!
Oleksandr Usyk made boxing historical past together with his latest victory towards Tyson Fury. With the win Usyk grew to become the primary undisputed world heavyweight champion because the nice Lennox Lewis final held that distinction almost 1 / 4 of a century in the past (again in April 2000).
The win additionally marked Usyk as the primary undisputed world heavyweight champion throughout the fashionable 4-belt period. Usyk additionally grew to become simply the second boxer in historical past to grow to be undisputed world champion in each the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, becoming a member of an unique membership that additionally consists of Evander Holyfield. However maybe most significantly, the victory earned Usyk a rightful declare to the lineal world heavyweight championship, which dates all the best way again to John L Sullivan approach again within the Eighties.
In boxing right now we’ve 4 main world titles, and this complicates the game with politics and an awesome abundance of title holders that make following the championship extra difficult than it must be. That’s the reason the idea behind the lineal championship, the person who beat the person, nonetheless stays vital to today. Proper now Oleksandr Usyk is the undisputed world lineal heavyweight champion, holding declare to all 4 main alphabet belts, and extra importantly he holds a legitimate declare to the lineage. The alphabet our bodies might technically break the undisputed a part of it, with the IBF already scheming away, however Usyk will stay the lineal world heavyweight champion till somebody beats him, or till he actually retires with out ever coming again. Till a kind of issues occur, Oleksandr will stay the one and solely true lineal world heavyweight champion.
This version of Rummy’s Nook will present a whole chronology of the lineal world heavyweight championship from John L Sullivan to Oleksandr Usyk, whereas exploring the historic precedents which were established for forming a brand new lineage every time a break happens every time a heavyweight champion retires with the crown. Please watch and benefit from the video for one man’s opinion. That is Rummy’s Nook (produced and narrated by Geoffrey Ciani).
