Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk vs. Anthony Lewis Bellew

There has been no properly configured poll thread made as of yet, so this is "the one", hereby official, verily.

Saturday, November 10th in London.

Usyk will bring his unified IBF, WBA super, WBC, and WBO cruiserweight titles on the road for a historic first defense of all four simultaneously. I believe this will mark the first time every major org in the "Big 4" era has seen its CW title defended in the same match. The nearest to date was Evander Holyfield vs. Carlos de León, featuring all the same belts save the WBO (and in those days the WBA still hadn't fractured into regular/super/interim and the further maddeningly problematic "in recess"; currently there are three WBA cruiser world title claimants besides Usyk boasting the aforementioned respect trio of alternatives: Beibut Shumenov, Arsen Goulamirian, and Denis Lebedev) over 20½ years prior.

Bellew is confident of victory and has vocally sought out this match-up, eager to catch Usyk before his long-anticipated jettison up to heavyweight (the same waters in which Bellew has been swimming the last few years, with, to some, rather surprising amounts of success) even though he was outclassed & knocked out down at light heavyweight by longtime green belt custodian Adonis Stevenson, whom throughout his reign has never achieved consensus as #1 (barely ever more than consensus number three, in all honesty) in that division.

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...uh, Tony does realize that not ALL of the hardware in that room is up for grabs, oi? You can't lift the Ali trophy off him, mate, ship has sailed.

 

Bellew should mind the chorus:

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Also, I want to have a buffet of all I can eat of ALL those Dolls' arses. They can even have curry for dinner the eve of, IDGAF.

 

Yeah, he's a career solid B or bellow (hehe) depending on what division we're talking about.

 

This is extremely true.

"I retired the Hayemaker and ran Usyk off from cruiserweight! I'm the best across three weight divisions at the very top of the scales in this sport!"

When he's on a roll, the Scouse hooligan brings gasconade to new heights. Which...just makes it all the more exquisite when he comes hurtling in flames down to earth. Like when he chirped about being a warrior and willing to die and whatnot against Superman and then ran for dear life from the first bell.