Has Usyk got a Glass Jaw?

I completely forgot about Korobov claiming to have dropped Usyk. I remember he stopped him on the mercy or outclassed rule where the fight is automatically stopped if there's a large points margin between the 2 fighters

Korobov, who is one of the best amateurs I've ever seen and whose CV is insane, beat a lot excellent amateurs and excellent amateurs/future excellent pros and future pro world champions and he stopped many of them on that rule too

Among many others his scalps include

Usyk - W-RSCO
Kovalev
Bakhtiyar Artayev
Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov
Badou Jack - W-RSCO and PTS
Danny Jacobs - W-RSCO
Sergiy Derevyanchenko TKO
Alfonso Blanco
Emilio Correa
Ismayl Sillah - W-RSCO
Fedor Chudinov - W-RSCO
Dmitry Chudinov
Carlos Gongora - W-RSCO
Yordanis Despaigne
Darren Sutherland - W-RSCO
Daniel Geale
Mohamed Hikal
Jarrod Fletcher - W-RSCO


Here's an example of Korobov stopping Sillah on the W-RSCO rule

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Korobov said he thinks he dropped him but I could find nothing to suggest it was a heavy KD, assuming it's even true or it wasn't a balance issue KD or something that is

Either way, it was when Usyk was 19, had only been boxing 4 years and Korobov was 23 and had been boxing for a decade and it was obviously down at MW in 2006 which is roughly 35lbs to 60lbs in recent years lighter than what Uysk has weighed since late 2008, and he campaigned at LHW (81kgs) 10 months after losing to Korobov in 2006 in between that and moving up to HW. Usyk hasn't just been a completely different physical specimen for the last 16 years he's a virtually a different species altogether

"I think I dropped him off his feet. The referee scored a knockdown. I think that was the end of the round - the second, if I'm not wrong.

"The third round was stopped by the points, because I was many points ahead of him."

-- Matt Korobov

 

Usyk has an iron jaw and he is a great defensive fighter

Both are so obviously true but ever so weirdly people don't want to give him the credit for having or being either of those

Yes he has brilliant defence albeit we don't give him credit for that

But he also has been cracked flush on the chin many times by these savage punchers, giants, savage punching giants and legit bangers he's fought and they cannot put a dent in him. The shots just bounce off his iron jaw

Dubois cracked him with a bunch of flush right hands in both fights and a left hook in the first one and nothing happened

He even landed a huge right hand a second before the first KD which snapped Usyk's head back. What did Usyk do? He ate it up and immediately fired back with counters and dropped Dubois

There was a video with better angle than this one where you see it snap his head back more but I can't find it now

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From a different angle

At 0:14 huge flush right hand from Dubois

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Yeah, I was a huge fan of him in both the amateurs and pros but he left his best years and form in the ams and was cursed with absolute rotten luck throughout his pro career

He was beating Andy Lee soundly prior to walking onto Lee's pet right hook which was a serious weapon and he still didn't go down during the follow up assault when Lee went ham on him

Then he got broken out for four years and couldn't get a break for love nor money, having to fight low level comp throughout

Then when he finally did get a break he got robbed in back to back fights vs Jermallo and Aleem

And then he lost his last 2 fights due to his body breaking down on him suffering 2 different serious injuries early in fights, 2 rounds and 4 rounds IIRC, he was winning and would've won IMO had he not got injured. Yes the CEJ was only 2 rounds but Korobov was hitting CEJ at will with his backhand and CEJ had no defence whatsoever to it