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

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.

 

Rico is 37 now and he's been through a lot of life and death wars in his kickboxing career. I can't even count the amount of times he's been dropped or seriously hurt. Hopefully, he got paid well for this fight, and he can retire entirely from combat sports soon. His health should be his main priority now imho.

 

Fury and Kabayel are licking their chops right now.

but f me, Rico deserves a rematch. He also has a career in boxing if he wants it — he was so, so much better than anybody thought. That weird ape swarmer thing he was doing was working quite well.

 

They really are. Through 5 rounds they had Rico landing 4 jabs, which just isn’t true.

 

hold on. AJ didn’t embarrass the sport at all when he fought Ngannou. He did exactly what you’d expect a high level HW operator to do to a MMA fighter in a boxing match.

and you just know right now the wheels are spinning in Eddie’s head and he’s already talked to AJ about it.

 

i did see usyk as elite at hw, relative to the rest, which i considered weak. i never bought into the atg talk, though. i just stayed out of those discussions cause his fanbase is pretty rabid and refuse to see anything outside perfection.

 

I was waiting for that **** to happen and I knew it would be soon they where moving him along to slowly for a reason

 

You don’t like him? I was hoping he could become a contender at least and give Itauma a run for his money

 

What did he do wrong ? Setting up this whole fight for starters. An absolutely embarrassing performance against a kickboxer and a title defense made of pure fluff

Oh and yes, Furys fight against Ngannou was also a disgrace so don't even bring that up

 

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Usyk is a disgrace..

 

Thank the universe I can experience what fighting fans must have been like to Ali when he got fat as a hog and arguably lost to Jimmy Young.

 

To me it wasn't them moving him along to slow. It was the stupid team lining up fights that wouldn't go past 3 rnds. They were obsesses with the KO. Fighting guys that he can swing wild with no regards to defense.