Oleksandr Usyk vs. Mairis Briedis was a professional boxing match contested on 27 January 2018, for the WBC and WBO cruiserweight championship.

Following their respective September 2017 quarter final victories against Marco Huck and Mike Perez, it was reported the WBSS semi final between Oleksandr Usyk and Mairis Briedis would take place on 27 January 2018 in Riga, Latvia, a week before Murat Gassiev vs. Yuniel Dorticos. Arēna Rīga was confirmed as the location by Kalle Sauerland in early December.

Usyk came in at 199.5 pounds and Briedis weighed 199.1 pounds.

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Jermain Taylor 24–0 (17 KO) vs. Bernard Hopkins 46–3–1 (1) (32 KO) II, billed as No Respect, was a professional boxing match contested on December 3, 2005, for the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, WBO, and The Ring middleweight championships.

Just 4+1⁄2 months prior, Jermain Taylor had surprised the boxing world by scoring an upset victory over the reigning undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, who had not lost in over 12 years and had made 20 consecutive title defenses, needing only one more to surpass Larry Holmes to the become the second fighter with the most defenses, after Joe Louis, who had 25 successful defenses as a Heavyweight champion during the late 1930s and the entirety of the 1940s.

The fight was not without controversy as though Hopkins started off slowly, he took control of the later rounds and many in the media still had him as the clear winner. Hopkins took issue with the scoring of the final round by judge Duane Ford. Ford had scored the 12th round in favor of Taylor 10–9 in contrast to the other two judges who had given Hopkins the round 10–9. Hopkins filed an official appeal with the Nevada State Athletic Commission contending that Ford was incorrect in scoring the round for Taylor and had he scored the round in Hopkins’ favor, the fight would’ve been declared a split draw, allowing Hopkins to keep his titles. Hopkins explained “I’d be doing a disservice if I didn’t challenge something that’s in dispute around the world, based on a judge thinking Jermain Taylor won a round that everybody else says I won.” NSAC Marc Ratner admitted that an overturned decision was unlikely as they had not found anything to conclude that the Ford had either scored the fight incorrectly or colluded with other judges, but nevertheless submitted Hopkins’ appeal to a five-man committee, who denied Hopkins’ appeal three days later.

Though Hopkins was unsuccessful in his appeal, he still held a rematch clause from the previous fight’s contract and had exercised it shortly after his defeat, officially putting the rematch on for later in the year. Hopkins and his team originally eyed an October 1 date for the rematch, but Taylor’s manager Lou DiBella refused, stating that Taylor needed more time to heal from a deep gash he had sustained to his head during the first fight and December would be the earliest that the rematch would take place.

On 15 October the IBF stripped Taylor of their belt.

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Oleksandr Usyk vs. Marco Huck was a professional boxing match contested on 9 September 2017, for the WBO Cruiserweight championship.

Having made two defences of the WBO belt he had won from Krzysztof Głowacki in September 2016, Oleksandr Usyk entered the World Boxing Super Series in July 2017 as odds on favourite to win. At the WBSS draft Gala, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 8 July 2017, Usyk, who was the number one seed, chose to fight former WBO champion Marco Huck. When asked why he chose Huck, Usyk said, “Because of my fans.” Huck, who was equally excited, replied that Usyk was his ‘wish opponent’.

n 26 July it was announced that the fight would take place at the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin on 9 September 2017. This would mark the second time Usyk would fight in Germany as a professional, having fought there in his third professional bout in April 2014. It would also mark the first fight of the tournament.

On 6 September, at the final press-conference, Huck pushed Usyk in the face-off. In regards to the shove, Huck said, “I wanted to show Usyk that he is in my hometown and that he should be prepared for the battle of his life on Saturday.” Usyk, who remained professional and calm, replied, “If you want to be a great champion, you have to beat the best and Huck is one of the best. I chose to enter this tournament because it is a path to achieve my dream of unifying all the belts.” As he was leaving the building, Usyk claimed he would ‘bury’ Huck.

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