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Oleksandr Usyk to Face Kickboxing King Rico Verhoeven in Egypt

Turki Alalshikh booked the May 23 Egypt blockbuster: Usyk vs Verhoeven for the WBC belt on DAZN. Usyk said ‘Rico is…the King of Kickboxing. But this is boxing — a different game’. Verhoeven answered ‘I started looking for the highest challenge… Undisputed versus undisputed’. The 36-year-old returns to boxing after a 12-year gap in a crossover test.