Since when is complaining or being made to feel uncomfortable by heavy shots, the same as "nearly knocked out". Watched the first round and he was nowhere near. At least I know now that I can mute you since you clearly have nothing objective to say about boxing.
You are casual british pro boxing customer: you might be very suitable to be used as matchroom ref or judge. Actually you normally value boxers according to promoter and passport they does have nothing more here. You are from kind of mainstream pro boxing business customers. If we will use the same criteria as you use for Usyk for A.J , Whyte, Josh Taylor, Chisora etc we might had here xxxx threads with claims how they " almost had get knocked down ".
Bellew didn't really dominate at all in that fight. Usyk seemed very comfortable through out, and did what he usually does. If AJ holds back until the later rounds Usyk will grind him down slowly, and start hurting him badly with well timed combinations when AJ gets desperate for that KO in the late rounds. AJ needs to apply pressure early before Usyk has time to set the pace. The longer this fight goes the better it is for Usyk.
if a fattie like Ruiz can topple the beefy Joshua....Usyk can do so even easier. 8th round ko by Usyk.
Can Usyk find a positon where he'll catch AJ unsighted like Ruiz? I don't see it. AJ fights very scared these days, I don't see him plodding into Usyk like a dummy and getting caught. Cards are already scored in his favour, just keep it long and box him.
yeah you are right. I think Usyk's skill sets are better and that will help. Unless I am underestimating Joshua which is possible. I think one factor that I expect is that Usyk will pressure wisely throughout rounds with a high out put and being difficult to hit. expecting fatigue to play a factor. just my two cents.
Let's not forget that Usyk didn't just prove all the haters, doubters and DKSAB brigade wrong, he moseyed on into the lion's den of AJ's backyard on his mule like a prime Clint circa 64-66 and completely schooled his ass in front of 65,000 + rabid and vociferous AJ fans. And this is despite Usyk only having fought twice in three years and one of those fights wasn't even a real fight because his very late notice opponent only turned up to shell up and survive. And even worse, two of Usyk's previous three opponents are longtime friends of AJ's and much of the data they downloaded from sharing a ring with Usyk and what they learned during the months they and their teams studied him meticulously in preparation to face him would've been passed onto AJ and one of Usyk's chief sparring partners for both camps was Martin Bakole who is a longtime sparring partner of AJ's. Bakole describes AJ as one of his ''best buddies.'' And then Usyk paddled his ass again in the rematch despite the huge distraction of the war raging in his homeland to deal with. Usyk's mental strength and fortitude is off the charts. They blamed it on AJ's tactics but we told you he was only allowed to do what Usyk allowed him to and that's exactly how it played out in the rematch with the ''new aggressive AJ'' too. Even AJ's lone big round, round 9, was an illusion and was blown out of proportion by the commentary team.