Pros/Former pros take on if Dubois shot was legal.

Everyone wanted Usyk to win, even most British fans were not routing for Debois. It was the Ukraine show and all the vested interest was for Usyk to win.

 

It's pretty obvious that his belly button was immediately under the belt. You can see it on video after he gets up and walks around. But you can also confirm it in this picture because when he raises his arms, you can see the navel.

 

People giving screenshots from other moments of the fight where we can see Usyk's shorts below the navel is probably the most stupid thing they can do. The shorts are not fixed throughout the fight. At the start of round 5, one can clearly see the navel going into the shorts - how is that for proof? Nor it was visible at the moment of the impact. So if we are going to play it thisway - that's the fact.

 

Exactly and clearly you can't see Usyk's belly button at the point when Dubois landed the punch on the belt line so its irrelevant.

I like Usyk I like Lomachenko I thought Lomachenko got hard done by vs Haney recently, but I call it as I see it no bias from me whether I like a fighter or not.

That was a clear abdomen shot right on the belt line, and theres countless examples of belt line shots being scored as legit knockdowns/stoppages throughout history.

 

What vested interest would an American pro have in a fight between Usyk and Dubois?

We haven't given the UK $75 billion in the last year.

The fact that Usyk complained of low blows throughout the fight and the referee ignored him or just stated to his face it wasn't low doesn't help Usyk's case.

The guy's weakness is his body. If he complains enough, and the ref is out of position, the ref tends to go along. And his opponent gets admonished and lays off the body.

Usyk has been doing it for a long time, but his sycophants haven't noticed until now.

We can debate that one shot forever, but nobody is talking about all the other times he claimed a punch was a foul last night that the ref basically said "C'mon" and rolled his eyes.

 

Didn’t see barely any UK pundits except those in Dubois team give him a chance and he barely has any supporters in the UK. All countries have a slight preference to their fighters but UK bias isn’t as bad as people think, there is always a good debate between pundits with different viewpoints, the problem is that UK bias is highlighted as a lot of sports fans from outside the UK watch our broadcasts and coverage. If you watch a for example a Mexican broadcast of one of their fighters or a Ukrainian broadcast you see a big bias towards their fighters on their broadcast.

 

You think Usyk whining about low blows is a Pound-for-Pound debate?

Usyk wasn't going to climb any pound-for-pound ladder by beating Daniel Dubois last night. He was a massive favorite to win.

 

I respect your opinion Serge for atleast seeing at as debatable, I'm on the side of the argument believing it was a legit. But I'm not going to trash anyone else's opinion for seeing it different, and it doesn't take away from Usyk's prior achievements.

But I don't think Usyk has too much time left in the sport, I hope he can atleast retire on a great/memorable fight.

 

This is all dumb. What is done is done. The issue should be, if Usyk is so weak, THEN LET'S GET FURY IN THERE TO FIGHT HIM.