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

Rico is a giant of a man, is very fast and athletic, has been training boxing for 15 years with a top trainer who guided Greedy Belly to become the unified champion, is the undisputed HW champion, is a kickboxing GOAT with almost 80 fights of experience under his belt, hasn't lost a fight in almost 11.5 years, and has only been stopped x 2 in almost 80 fights both to murderous punchers 14 and 15 y/o when he was 21 and 22 y/o both of which he avenged and pre his 12 year undefeated HW title reign.

And he's extremely confident and full of self-belief and in his own words the fact he's coming from a kickboxing background makes him unpredictable for Usyk because he brings angles, movement, and timing that differ from traditional professional boxers, which he believes makes his attack harder to read for him

Tom Aspinall says exactly same about his experience sparring boxers

Rico also has the element of surprise on Usyk who won't know what to expect because there is so little footage of Rico boxing to study

And Usyk is 39 y/o and is facing a much bigger man who, as said, is very fast and athletic

You can't watch this and deny that speed. He looks very fast, let alone for a giant of his dimensions and then when you couple that with his huge size advantage, his unpredictability, and everything else and yes he does pose a risk

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The slow and cumbersome Ngannou took Greedy Belly to a SD in his boxing debut, doing better vs him in his 1st boxing fight than The Dosser did in 3 attempts and 80 fights of experience amateur and pro under his belt

In his boxing debut Conor McGregor was outboxing defensive master Floyd and walking him into educated counters that we've rarely seen Floyd get hit with

Fabio Wardley is a white collar boxer who became HW champion despite a complete lack of skill and most of his opponents being bums

Is Rico less skilled than The Dosser, Fabio, Ngannou, Conor?

And what if Usyk boxes his ears off, outclasses him, or outclasses him and knocks him out? Does that mean Rico's a bum given how Usyk has done that god knows how many times to the best fighters in the world amateur and pro?