Who should clean Usyk's mess?

If boxing has any integrity they should call this a NC and Usyk should clean the mess up himself in the rematch.

The ref stuffed up.. if you actually watch it the bell rings and Usyk still lands 2 or 3 shots.. you simply can't stop the fight after the bell when the hurt fighter should have been handily up.

 

One round is a bit too harsh. Guys like Francois Botha or Mike Bernardo proved the contrary. Sure they both didnt dominate the sport, but they did good. But I have to say of course Bernardo was very good prepared before he started at kickboxing, while Botha basically went over there without training.

But Botha had this major upset win over Jerome Le Banner (that counter was great):

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And he imo got jobbed by the Japanese K-1 judges in his second fight with Remy Bonjasky:

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My scoring there was:
1) 10-9 Botha
2) 10-9 Botha
3) 10-8 Bonjasky
28:28 after three rounds, so extra round would have been needed.

The K-1 bosses didnt want a boxer throwing the defending champion Bonjasky out of the final tournament, so they gave Remy the win after 3 rounds instead of a draw.

Of course the boxing bosses also didnt have interest that Ngannou and Rico would have defeated T. Fury and Usyk, of course not.

 

It's not an "Inferior Martial Art"....MMA literally stands for "Mixed Martial Arts", it's all encompassing, meaning Boxing is included as a Martial Art. Many fighters who dominate their respective MMA weight class, do so, by being exceptionally strong at one from of Martial Art over another, such as Boxing/Striking compared to Grappling, or vice versa.

The reason for the lack is crossover with boxers entering MMA is relatively simple.

1. It pays significantly less.
2. Boxers train in just one Martial Art, rather than many. So a boxer entering the octagon is metaphorically doing so with one arm tied behind their back hopping on one leg.

MMA fighters train their striking skills, Boxers do not train their kicking/grappling etc.

 

Yeah yeah. By any means necessary.

 

Joshua fans desperate for him to KO another mixed martial artist to rebuild the hype train.

Little do they realize Rico is too spicy for current Joshua. They had to bail a guy out of an Albanian jail or something to find him an opponent.

 

Feed Rico to AJ. He’d savagely KO him in a round or two.

 

AJ couldn't beat Dubios, yet you expect him to put on a masterclass on a guy Usyk had difficulty with?

Even considering

The Usyk in there still wrecks AJ and Dubios because they're both lumbering stiff idiots with zero ability to adapt under pressure.

They're not hard fighters to figure out compared to Usyk, and Peter Fury would craft a game plan for Rico to deal with each.

 

Let Usyk do it. He can do it.

 

Ngannou and Rico have two polar opposite styles, with Ngannou standing directly in front of AJ which got him sparked out.

Dubios and AJ are too basic to mug anyone who doesn't stand in front of them all night. Rico would beat both and has more of them to study than the other way around.

 

Fair play. I agree they would be good scraps too