Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk vs. Ricardo Verhoeven & Frank Sanchez vs. Richard Torrez Jr. RBR.

He had Rico on wobbly legs in the 4th, but somehow stepped off the gas.

 

It was a good stoppage. Verhoeven spit out his mouthpiece to buy time, the ref gave him the time and you could see how wobbled he was walking to the corner to get it replaced. Even with that time to recover as soon as the action started again he got nailed with 5 or 6 consecutive punches.

 

I have to say though, Verhoeven looked great. He looked like a Soviet gold medalist in there. Constant motion, sharp heavy punches. He was beating Usyk up for a lot of the fight. He got ktfo but I hope he keeps boxing.

 

I didn't watch this one how was it?

I saw torres got starched lol I'm sorry I missed that one

 

Apart from Usyk utilizing very little footwork or feints, where was his jab? He used the jab like only twice which snapped Rico's head back a little.

Very strange performance from Usyk.

But take nothing away from Rico, he did very well.

 

Let's remind some people about Usyk...

UNDEAFEATED
Undisputed cruiser
Undisputed heavy
12 combined title defenses
14 combined title fight wins
Never been off his feet
Defeated 8 other titlists in 11 fights
Beat the #2, #3, and #4 heavyweights of the era, all 2X titlists, in six fights.

And, he was standing over Rico at the end of this fight.

 

Punch count does not support the narrative of Rico dominating...

Oleksandr Usyk landed 112 of 499 total punches (22.4%), while Rico Verhoeven landed 113 of 508 total punches (22.2%). Verhoeven held a narrow advantage in power punches (93 to 89), while Usyk held the edge in jabs (23 to 20) in the 11-round bout.

 

Poor Torres

 

Punch counts/stats are such a waste of time and resources.

 

the problem is that there are very few true elite boxers in the game. there are currently none at hw. so elite strikers from other combat sports can compete with these non elite hw boxers. you wouldnt find any non boxer being able to compete with a shakur, or inoue, or bam at their own weight. it wouldnt be close. the hw division is the weakest i have seen it in 50 years, and you know im not saying that because of today, ive been saying it almost a decade. this is just more proof of what ive been saying.

 

They really aren't since that is literally one of the categories of scoring.

And since usyk scored the knockdown, the clean/hard punching argument can go his way too.

If you want to say a fighter won, you have to find the metric by which he did.