Reality Check Time! Oleksandr Usyk is Still The P4P Number One Fighter On The Planet. This Is Why...

I don't agree that Fury almost won, and the punch that temporarily sent him to his paradise was being set up for several rounds before.

Thankfully, for those who tought Fury almost won, we had the rematch and Usyk proved without the shadow of a doubt who the better fighter was.

 

Usyk won by a single point. If Fury had kept fighting instead of sleepwalking once he’d taken control of the fight, he would’ve left with his title.

 

No, I don't think Usyk was bullying anyone at Cruiserweight. This is a dude who started his ammy career at Middleweight. If someone knows where to find what he weighed in at during the WSB I'd love to see it, but I doubt he was much over 200. As for his Cruiserweight run, let's check the numbers.

Bellew: 6'3 74" reach
Gassiev: 6'2.5 76" reach
Briedis: 6'1 75" reach
Huck: 6'2 77" reach
Hunter: 6'2 79" reach
Mchunu: 5'10 72.5" reach (the one true outlier here)
Glowacki: 6' 75" reach

And I suppose you can say he's lying, but Usyk has stated on multiple occasions how he has to eat like crazy to stay around 220 and how much he hates it. He's a naturally lean guy. It's only been in his past couple of fights at HW that he's looked like he's fully filled in and become a true HW.


Now, let's compare that to Crawford. Not going to do every fight, obviously, but we'll hit the big ones! Remembering that Crawford is 5'9 with a whopping 78" reach.

Burns: 5'10 70" reach
Gamboa: 5'5 65" reach
Postol: 5'11 71" reach
Indongo: 5'10.5 71.5" reach
Horn: 5'9 68" reach
Benevidez: 5'10.5 71" reach
Khan: 5'8.5 71" reach
Brook: 5'9 69" reach
Porter: 5'7 69.5" reach
Spence: 5'9.5 71" reach
Madrimov: 5'8.5 68.5" reach
Canelo: 5'7.5 70.5" reach

Bud has a giant ape (no racist) frame for his height. He himself talk about walking around at 180 and not being super fat or flabby. He looked ripped and muscular in his fight with Canelo at 168. It's obvious he could have been fighting at 154 or 160. Except he wouldn't have had those reach advantages and would have started giving up some decent height to his opponents. Therefore, nuh-uh. Not gonna do it when he can just cut more weight and bully. Look at some of those disparities! He's got almost 10 inches of reach advantage over guys like Porter and Brook. He DOES have 10 inches over dudes like Gamboa and Burns. The rest of them struggle to get within 7 inches of him. For context, a seven inch reach advantage is what Fury, the longest reach guy in the sport and an ape himself, had over Usyk!

Again, I'm just pointing out that Bud beating Canelo at 168 isn't some one-in-a-lifetime feat because he mOvED uP tHRee WeIGhT ClAssEs!!! Terence has always had the advantages when hes stepped in the ring. He's also a house cat. Dude fought away from home one time in his career against a guy who in his previous fight only six months previously had been knocked down and had his jaw broken.

Is he an amazing fighter? Obviously. Should he get his plaudits especially having been put on the back burner by Top Rank? Absolutely. Is he P4P better than Usyk with better wins? Not a chance in hell. Bud has been knocked down, Usyk hasn't even though he's faced bigger competition. Bud won one title on away turf, Usyk has won EVERY TITLE on away turf. Bud never stepped into the ring with someone truly bigger than him in his entire career, Usyk wiped out the top of the HW division TWICE while giving up height, weight, and reach in each contest. The only thing Bud has over Usyk is an extra weight class of being Undisputed. And lets not kid ourselves. That's only because Usyk has nowhere else to go. And because Bud saw an old, slow, on cruise control Canelo to go steal some belts off of. A guy who flat out ducked the best dude at 168 to keep those belts, too. And we know Bud isn't going to fight anyone else at 168 to prove his chops there.

 

Did you actually compare their opponents size ? Usyks opponents at cruiserweight are no smaller dimension wise than Buds opposition at 147 and below relative to Usyk. He had a height and reach advantage in almost every fight at cruiserweight. Its also hilarious that you discredit Crawford just because he has a long reach for his height. Sure he cuts down, so does everyone else below heavyweight. Literally everyone cuts weight in todays age. Mayweather had even longer arms than Crawford yet he was never accused of weight bully at 130.

You make it out like Fury and Joshua can only be beaten by an exceptional atg fighter who is smaller yet we know Fury went life and death with featherfisted Cunningham. Cunningham has no power and was 210 pounds in that ring, had never fought at heavyweight prior was was still winning rounds and putting Fury on his ass. He isn't invincible to cruiserweights. He doesn't even have a record of dominating cruiserweights. The super heavyweights are overrated off actual evidence and you will not change my mind. Diminishing returns is a real mathmatical phenomenon and weight becomes less relevant the bigger you get because the value of the pound contributes diminishes the bigger someone is because of percentages. Good on Usyk for beating Fury, Joshua, Dubois, but joshua is overrated as hell. Fury was just as past it as Canelo and has less than half the resume. Canelo also has an iron chin unlike Fury or Joshua and knocked down and knocked out way bigger guys than Bud so many of the Crawford detractors claiming he weight bullies and relys on his size and power to bail him out were completely proven wrong

 

A lot of people thought that Madrimov beat Crawford you left that close fight out lad. Why would anybody want to see Usyk get robbed? So you are changing your mind now to help your argument? You are saying Crawford does have a better resume than Usyk
It seems to me that a lot of American fans will say anything to have their man rated above Usyk.

From what I have seen with my eyes I truely believe that Usyk is the GOAT but I totally understand if people don’t agree as boxing is subjective.

 

Anyone who thought Madrimov beat Crawford are as clueless as the ones who thought Briedis beat Usyk. Yes, Canelo trumps Fury and knocking an undefeated Spence out without losing any rounds is equal to Usyk beating joshua. I will never submit the opinion, joshua and Fury are overrated. If 210 pound Cunningham won rounds off Fury and hurt him multiple times it should've been expected that Usyk could do better. The super Heavyweights being far superior to world class cruiserweights is a complete myth

 

I thought Crawford beat Madrimov but it was a close fight so you were wrong about Crawford not having any close fights just admit it lad. Going all the way back to the Cunningham fight is really reaching lad. Not all fighters are perfect every fight Fury still found a way to win. Some of you American’s don’t get that fighting on the road especially the first time can create nerves that are not normally there. It’s like seeing things in black and white without context. Boxing doesn’t work like that and as a long time fan surely you know this?

AJ was more dangerous than Spence and Usyk beat him in London. Also most people scored the first round for Spence against Crawford so once again you are exaggerating to suit your narrative. Also where did I say that heavyweights were far superior to cruiserweights? My point is Usyk was undisputed in two very dangerous divisions. All the divisions Crawford unified in were no where near the level of talent that Usyk unified in.

 

Going back to the Cunningham fight ? That was literally 2 years before Fury beat Klitschko which was his best win. Complete nonesense. You say Canelo and Spence were past it, so was Fury. Cunningham was literally PILLOWFISTED and still dropped Fury and took rounds off him, plenty had him ahead untik the stoppage. Joshua got his ass beat by an out of shape unranked contender and Spence was coming off 2 dominant victories and a stoppage against a champion. Usyk couldn't drop aj once and many people claim the aj fight was close until the championship rounds.

It's completely false. The talent pool in regards to world class talent is objectively higher in smaller weight classes for a majority of the time just because of population.

 

Once again ignoring key points about being the away fighter. You ever think maybe Fury learned from the Cunningham fight and got better?
Most were saying Spence was dead at the weight and even looked cooked on his ring walk. Now Usyk should’ve dropped AJ? LOL you are hilarious lad.

 

How relevant is it for such a factor to tilt this in Usyks favor ? Almost no judges have ever scored an Usyk fight erroneously when he's has multiple competitive fights. Crawford fought in Scottland for Ricky Burns but nobody cares because he smashed Burns. You speculate Fury got significantly better but Fury years later post Wilder still claimed Cunningham was his hardest fight precisely because he was small and slippery.

Fury and Joshua have 0 record of dominating world class cruiserweights and have actually struggled with them on multiple occasions, add to the fact guys like Chisora and Whyte have gotten knocked out by cruiser sized opposition makes you question how dominant the super heavyweights are when faced with a decently skilled cruiserweight. Joseph Parker couldn't get Massey out of there and even got rocked but Opetaia washed him inside the distance. Go ahead and explain that if super heavyweights are so difficult to deal with by an elite smaller man. Even Wilder weighed about 212 when he dropped Fury twice and his resume is garbage. Dismissing Spence is nothing but excuses, he looked the same as every single weigh in and came off 2 dominant victories post car crash.

 

Povetkin wasn't much bigger than Usyk, 6'2 with a 75 inch reach, only fights one way, 41 years old nearly shot to pieces when he put Whyte to sleep.

The better question is, what proven cruiserweights have these guys dominated ? That will emphasize how historically difficult of a task is it to beat these guys and we know it's difficult because Holyfield is the only one who's unified both divisions, but Holyfield isn't considered to be a top 5 heavyweight candidate, yet Usyk is the GOAT ? Really ?

I've always been of the opinion that cruiserweights are heavyweights in disguise. You've been claiming on this site for years that the cruiserweight division is better than the heavyweight division, your own words. Fury doesn’t have Wladimirs track record, he wasn't even beating up cruiserweights like Bowe was and he's certainly not a power puncher.

 

Huck never at any point established himself as the best cruiserweight in the world. His losses are considerably worse than Canelo's and he doesn't have comparable wins