A lineal champion in boxing is the fighter who beat the previous reigning champion, or top fighter, in a division. There is no set criteria for when a lineal champion is first named, but it is a title ...

Now that Usyk has chucked his old heavyweight titles in the trash can he is the lineal heavyweight champion. What may happen to the old belts.

Usyk has done the right thing and sent the old now defunct 4 world title companies and their belts packing. Now he has ...

Oleksandr Usyk has stunned the boxing world after announcing that he is vacating his WBC, WBA, and IBF heavyweight titles […] ...

When Oleksandr Usyk faces off against Rico Verhoeven in front of the great Pyramids in Giza, he will do something no heavyweight champion has done in fifty years. Verhoeven will challenge for the WBC ...

Oleksandr Usyk announced he is vacating his WBA, WBC and IBF heavyweight titles, saying he intends to have one more fight before stepping away from ...

Footage of former unified and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury sparring Rico Verhoeven has been posted online. The Ring Magazine posted the footage before Verhoeven’s WBC heavyweight title ...

Lineal heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) will defend the WBC heavyweight title against kickboxing star Rico Verhoeven (1-0) in front of the Pyramids of Giza this Saturday. The grand ...

One of boxing’s greatest champions is officially stepping aside—but not stepping away. Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr ...