13 wins at Cruiser and dethroned Jirov then stepped up to Heavy to defeat cruiser GOAT contender Holyfield.
It's not just that he didn't have many fights, but there are really only two quality names at the weight. Don't think that's enough to warrant serious consideration for Top 10 status at the weight.
No usyk is the greater cruiser and the greater heavyweight than holyfield. You should just accept and celebrate we are witnessing atg history right now. Usyk is the cruiser goat and the top 3 heavy of all time already in my book. If he beats Parker and the winner of zhang and kabayal than he completely cleaned out the cruisers and heavys against absolute quality opposition. He would be my personal nr 1 at the higher weights of all time
I love Usyk, but I don’t have to accept your opinion as fact. I also said Holyfield *may* be greater overall, I did not state whether that’s my opinion or not for good reason - because I’m unsure as it stands and Usyk is not done.
Yes Adamek had 3 important wins to James toney’s 2.wins over Cunningham 1,bell and banks just about trumps toney’s wins aver jirov and Washington.
Baker’s dozen 1 Oleksandr Usyk 2 Evander Holyfield 3 Marco Huck 4 Jean Marc Mormeck 5 David Haye 6 Mairis Breidis 7 Dwight Muhammad Qawi 8 Johnny Nelson 9 Juan Carlos Gomez 10 Tomasz Adamek 11 Steve Cunningham 12 James Toney 13 O Neil Bell
Real Deal has 3 undisputed defenses. Even if you call Usyk undisputed he has one and it's a rematch. That said, just cruiser, I'd go Usyk. Same reason, he defended undisputed and Vander did not. On resume at CW, Qawi is the single best win. Usyk has a higher number of high quality wins though.