Usyk was saved by the ref that was a legit KO by Dubois

Low blow.

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I really don't give a damn but it should've been a KD

 

Usyk really seems to mess with your head you have a Jekyll and Hyde complex when it comes to him.

 

Usyk didn’t and absolutely does not wear his trunks high otherwise. A blatant myth.

A 100% low blow but if Dubois genuinely believes otherwise, then that claim is “on the line” in the rematch - meaning, if he loses again, the claim that Dubois was robbed in the first fight should be shelved forevermore.

 

For one, the shot was low, and the officiating made no mistake in calling it so.

And secondly, if Usyk is so weak to the body, and Dubois is such a murderous puncher, then when didn't he follow up with actually legal punches to Usyk's body and finish him? Why did he take the most memorable meekest exit in recent times and quit of an Usyk jab?

It is pretty clear what Dubois and fish eyes are trying here; age Usyk out and hope that Father Time can do what Dubois could not do. Unfortunately for them Usyk has more heart in his little toe than Dubois has in his whole body; pre-retirement geriatric Usyk will send Dubois back where he came from with his tail between his legs.

 

How can they be trying to age out Usyk? He beat Dubois who then beat three recognised name fighters, all of whom were expected to beat him. Usyk wants this fight, his age is his age. Dubois couldn't have fought him sooner even if it was his to call...

 

If you want to see a legit low blow just look at the one Dainier Pero delivered last weekend to Cesar Navarro. Right on the button. Pero managed to overcome that and two knockdowns to heavily out-land (above-the-belt) and outpoint his smaller but game opponent.

As for Usyk, yes he was drama-queening over that beltline Dubois shot, but he certainly felt it and was helping himself to ample recovery time. If Usyk has an Achilles Heel, it's his body. Fury proved that in the early rounds of their first meetup; why he didn't keep working the body (or at least attempt to) for the balance of that fight and their follow-up is beyond me.

That's why I'd like to see Kabayel get a shot at Usyk....

 

Usyk KO9

 

So confident you are. I've said this from the start but for you, I will use a diffrent approach. Ask yourself these 2 questions
1) Is hitting on the hip illegal.
2) if you were to draw a line from Dubouis glove around the waste of Usky, is that line above or below the hip.

Hip shots are illegal not because they hurt, but because they are at or below the belly button.

 

I genuinely feel that if it was the other way around, many would be crowing 'Usyk knocked Dubois out with a bodyshot'. There would be no controversy. I see shots like this in boxing and mma all the time. Some ARE called low, some AREN'T which at least shows it is up for debate. I felt, on the night, that it was a genuine shot and I still do. Usyk dissapointed me that night, claiming to have been hit 'in the balls' etc, but he's had so many great nights and he's such a warrior i can forgive him one out of character utterance!! He'll likely box Dan's ears off in the rematch BUT I've got Dubois by big KO before 6. I like an underdog story...

 

I think the whole Usyk dominated every round narrative is overdone. Usyk edged almost every round but Dubois was hanging with him a lot of the time. It was not like Usyk pulled a Cleveland Williams on Dubois. And then there was the bodyshot/low blow. I think it was a bodyshot but it was borderline. After that debacle Dubois made Usyk cringe a few more times with body shots………and then Dubois quit. Which he had done or almost done before. And he might do it again. But Dubois has put on a lot of muscle since that fight. In the first Usyk fight he was 233 lbs. In the AJ fight he was 248 lbs. And it’s in London now. Anything can happen.

 

I don't favour Dubois, but agree with the rest of your post

 

lol you think he didn’t want to? Fury that is. Sometimes an opponent does not let you do what you want to do. That is why a fight can be so dynamic and I shake my head at all the keyboard warriors in here who know precisely how a fight will unfold without duly considering the joint conditional distribution of outcomes. Even the Dubois fight the idea that it is a forgone conclusion is actually absurd.

 

I think that’s how most of his fights at hw has been - competitive. He just finds a way to edge the rounds and win. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is an intentional strategy given that he is at a disadvantage against these guys in terms of sheer size and raw power.