Who will you be rooting for: Daniel Dubois or Oleksandr Usyk?

Dubois,,he's younger and were more likely to see some good matches in the future if he wins, Kabayel, Parker, Itauma . Career wise Usyk already has one foot out the door and if he wins the belts will be locked down for another year deciding on if he'll fight again.

 

Usyk. He is the best of his era and i would hate for him to lose.

 

Dubois, it's never good for the torch to not get passed from generation A to generation B, Lewis beating Vitali at the tail-end of his career caused so many people to dismiss the fighters in the Klitschko era. If Usyk beats Dubois and retires undefeated the next era of HWs will always be under his shadow and fail to live up to the bar he set.

But I don't want to see Usyk lose to anyone he would absolutely torture in his prime either so I wish he just retired after Fury II.

 

Neither. It’s a pointless rematch that shouldn’t be happening

Usyk should be defending against either mandatory Parker or Kabayel, instead of rematching someone he already won every round against and KO’d with a jab

 

Usyk. Dubois is a despicable cheater with a glass heart.

 

From a sporting perspective, Usyk has nothing left to win in boxing. He's won everything there is to win, and he did it with style. There's no longer a fighter in boxing he needs to beat to prove anything or validate his position. Now it's all about the money. I'll be rooting for him both in the fight against Dubois and in this next (allegedly final) fight. Usyk is an outstanding figure, and one he's known for in the history of the sport. It would be a shame if, at the end of such a wonderful story, someone defeated him. I hope he retires undefeated and goes down as one of the greatest boxers of all time.

By the way, Dubois is a weak champion, and I don't even mean in terms of athleticism. He's unremarkable. You don't hear much about him, he doesn't speak much, and even though he's been champion for such a short time, he's already had a strange pre-fight evasion streak. I'm not a huge fan of his. He's not very bright and not very charismatic.

 

I love an upset.

So I'm rooting for the B side, the man who has the deck stacked against him, the underdog who's been written off, the man who's already suffered a humiliating defeat via jabbage.

Im rooting for DDD

 

I'm not going to start rooting against Usyk against Dubois who i'm not that keen on; he tends dirty and his hijacking of Usyk after Fury 2 was classless IMO.

Hope to see Usyk stitch this mutt up!

 

This.

Plus I'll enjoy watching the anti-EE crowd suck it

 

I can't decide, but I'm leaning towards Usyk. I won't be mad at a Dubois win as it will probably help keep the division moving a bit more.

But Usyk is a cool guy and a true professional, plus I don't think he should lose to Dubois if that makes sense.

 

Dubois got on my nerves a bit with the forced antics. So maybe Usyk. Don't really care.

Never been a big fan of Usyk to be honest. Great fighter but I usually like fighters that are not strictly textbook fighters. He's just extremely good at boxing but there's no flash. I like flash. Rather watch Loma over Usyk any day but Usyk is better.

 

This... Up to a point.

I voted Usyk, though.

It's good in some ways for that torch to get passed - at the same time, if it's going to happen I'd rather it be when Usyk is undeniably shot as opposed to just aging and declined a bit (how much?) as he is now.

... I'd also prefer it not to be a loss to the guy who turned up to deliberately lowblow him once already.


If it's Parker or even someone else who proves they belong up there (which no-one quite does for me, yet), then that's kinda okay.


I'm conflicted, though, in the sense that when someone's proven absolutely everything their era has worth talking about... The only thing left to prove is how long you can overcome old father time - and he always wins eventually.

 

I'll be rooting for Dubois, because I'd like to see him continue his recent progression. He's an exciting fighter and he's young.

But his last loss to Usyk was a total quit job on his part. He needs to win impressively to make some of us forget that loss.

Unfortunately, I'll be out of town this weekend, so I'll miss it. Probably won't find out who won until late Sunday.