Rico Verhoeven vs Oleksandr Usyk official for WBC Heavyweight Championship — May 23 in Egypt (DAZN)

I don't like the fight but I don't begrudge Usyk taking a 'soft touch' super fight against against a kickboxing GOAT at 39 y/o after a career spent fighting the best, world champions, undefeated world champions, the highest ranked contenders, and tough touches pretty much B2B and especially if it's a one-off and he defends his belts against one of his mandatories or unifies again in his next fight and Rico is a fellow GOAT and legend, an absolute giant of a man at 6'6'' and 270lbs of solid muscle and has been ranked the #1 HW in the world for going on 16 years has been HW champion for 12 years

He also hasn't lost a fight since early 2015

Has 26 straight fights under the GLORY banner as champion.

Holds Glory's record in most wins in title bouts (14)

The most consecutive title defences (13)

The most wins (28)

And the longest winning streak (27)

And he's very tough and has only been stopped x 2 in 78 fights in kickboxing which is absolutely insane and this is despite him being the HW champion for the last 12 years and his last stoppage loss was way back in 2012

And yes, he is also a professional boxer and MMA fighter who is undefeated in both codes. Sure he's only had one fight a piece in both but technically he is a pro boxer and MMA fighter

And he's been training boxing and sparring for over a decade bare minimum and training with Peter Fury for the best part of that and has been a longtime sparring partner of Hughie Fury and he was for the former three-belt unified HW champ/two-time HW champion Belly Fury

In fact, he was one of Belly's main sparring partner for Belly's greatest ever win over HW great Wlad Klitschko, if he was good enough for Belly to enlist the services of for preparation for Wlad over a decade ago when he had little experience training boxing how good do you think he is now and he's 3 years younger than Usyk?

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Look at the size of the man, the shape he's in and the speed and the elite athleticism.

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That's Usyk's 'soft touch' at 39 y/o. Rico would destroy so many of the soft touches the other greats and GOATs fought in their primes and defended their titles against

Rico is a legend and a superstar. No one knows who Fabio and Agit are for goodness sake

And I told you all Turki has been behind all this

 

Nothing new to see Usyk has had these grown 'men' shed a biblical tsunami of baba tears and had them on suicide watch for almost a decade and they're still bawling their eyes out to this day.

The guy takes one 'soft touch' in his career after a career fighting the best and highest rated pretty much B2B when he's the 4th oldest HW champ ever, the 2nd oldest unified HW champ, and the oldest undisputed HW champ ever at 39 y/o when way past his best in a super fight vs the HW kickboxing GOAT who has been HW champ for 12 years and hasn't lost a fight in all that time and who has been training boxing for over a decade and was one of Belly's main sparring partners for Wlad and they're throwing their toys out of their prams and having a biblical tantrum