Where are the class of 2012?

Oleksandr Usyk challenges WBO world cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Glowacki on Sky Sports on Saturday night, hoping to emulate fellow Olympic champion Anthony Joshua.

London’s IBF world heavyweight king Joshua and Vasyl Lomachenko have already done the double and this weekend could see another gold medallist from London 2012 reach the summit of the paid ranks.

Usyk, heavyweight winner at the Games, challenges Marco Huck’s conqueror Glowacki in the champion’s native Poland. The Ukrainian has fought only nine times professionally but is a veteran of the World Series of Boxing, where he beat Joe Joyce over here in 2013.

Let’s take a look at the rest of the men’s winners from the Olympics four years ago and how they are progressing…

Zou Shiming

Light-flyweight

Double Olympic champion Shiming turned professional under Freddie Roach, but after six wins he lost out to Thailand’s Amnat Ruenroeng in a world title challenge. 

Zou has rebounded with a couple of wins but at 35, he has little time on his side. Meanwhile, Ruenroeng lost his title and promptly qualified for the Rio Olympics, where he was defeated early in the competition

Robeisy Ramirez

Flyweight

Still just 22 years old, Cuban Robeisy Ramirez is a two-time Olympic champion, having done the double in Rio. The youngest two-time, male Olympic boxing gold medallist in history won at bantamweight in Brazil and now targets the treble – Tokyo in 2020.

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