Is Usyk ducking Kabayel? (VIDEO)

I am glad Usyk has vacated his titles. I think Usyk's legacy as the #1 guy in his era is clearly secure.

That being said, Usyk was not going to fight Parker. Remember when Parker got in the ring with Usyk after Dubois 2? Usyk mentioned rematching Fury and Joshua for a third time and Derek Chisora before mentioning Parker.

If Usyk was serious about Parker, Parker would be the first name coming out of his mouth.

Even if Parker had beaten Wardley, i will bet you my yearly salary that Usyk would have picked another fight.

Was Usyk scared of Parker? No. But he clearly does not seem to believe that some guys have earned their shots through hard work and consistency. The fact he was more interested in a third fight vs Joshua or Fury than fighting Parker shows he simply does not care about meritocracy in sport.

 

There's always another one to fight.
He already fought the best ones at HW and now people are making kebabyal into something he isn't.
Dubious has better wins and Usyk fought him twice.
The only reason kebabyal's team are crying is that they finally positioned their fighter into a fight with a small and old opponent, when Usyk looks worse than ever, after carefully dodging everyone for a decade. And now Usyk pulled the plug.
That's hilarious.
The 'German hero' story from Bild was also laughable. The majority of German men would support Usyk in that fight and rightly so. It's a fantasy of the media and the manage/promoter that the Germans consider Kebabyal their boxing hero. Just lol, clown-show Europe.

 

Perfect resume crafted, but terribly afraid to lose his 0. Be a man and fight kabayel. We no longer have a greedy belly in division, we have a greedy gaptooth as well .

 

This is just resentment that Usyk hasn't lost like your favourite boxer/boxers. No one was good enough to beat him at least prior to 39 despite fighting everyone at the top, usually with the deck stacked against him.

 

The notion that Oleksandr Usyk is ducking Agit Kabayel makes for good barroom chatter but poor analysis. Prizefighting has always been about the green, not the glory, and if the numbers were right you would see Usyk in the opposite corner without hesitation. The truth is simpler and less romantic. The money is not there or at least the risk v reward doesn't equate.

This is a man nudging forty who has already swept the table. He gave the division’s best two bites at the apple and they came up empty both times. At some point the champion stops chasing approval and starts counting what the game owes him. Fans always want one more name, one more test, one more night under the lights.

Do not be surprised if he joins the doofus circus and takes the easier road to a very large payday, perhaps a faded name for a tidy fortune, ( my money is on a Wilder fight ) and then tips his hat and exits. Good for him if he does. Legacy is already in the bank, and legacy, last I checked, does not pay the bills.

 

Ducking is ducking, no matter the results of the past. There are a lot of things up for debate, but some things are just that and nothing more. The guy got saved against a kick boxer and Dubois, so im not even gonna argue that the deck was stacked.

 

First time I strongly disagree with you about something @Rumsfeld . It's very reasonable to say Bowe ducked Lewis. The offer you refer to was a 90-10 split, which is so bad it's hard to see as a serious offer.

Even then Lewis accepted it eventually, but got turned down by the Bowe camp, because 'another deal was imminent'.

If that's not how you'd act if you really didn't want to accept a challenge, what is?

 

You're a funny guy. Usyk hurt that guy multiple times, was never hurt himself, cruised through the entire fight, and then slumped him through the ropes when he wanted. The ref should have waved it off right then and there because Rico wasn't responding to commands and thus didn't beat the count. Gave him half a minute to recover with the mouthpiece shenanigans and then Usyk went right back to beating his ass.

Of course, to even further prove you're not a serious person you brought up Dubois. Show some respect for yourself.

Nobody cares about Kabayel. He's a bang average HW who hasn't proven himself whatsoever. He's spent most of his career knocking over journeymen in Germany and even those guys have had him in serious trouble. If Turki had put up the money then Usyk would have gone and smashed that plodder and then the goalposts would have moved to Bu-bu-bu he hasn't fought Itauma! If he doesn't fight Itauma he's ducking!

Usyk is damn near 40 and he wants to get paid just like every boxer in the history of the game. He made almost nothing through his career up until the AJ rematch when he was already 35 years old. He didn't start making what he was truly worth until the Fury rematch. So of course he's looking for the biggest paydays right at the end of his career. That's only logical. It ain't his fault Kabayel never did a thing to raise his profile and convince the paymasters that a fight with him would actually draw some eyeballs.

 

Well stated.

 

Usyk is ducking retirement along with Fury for basically glorified exhibition matches with one another.

 

I don't blame him for it since he's 40, but yeah it's clearly a duck

 

I'm pissing against a stiff wind of opinion here, but I think Usyk is monetising his remaining talent and why shouldn't he? I think the Usyk that beat Dubois beats Kabayel and comprehensively. I think Kaba is somewhat overrated on this forum and elsewhere. But. It is a competitve fight against a dangerous challenger. Usyk will make far more fighting Wilder, or Fury, or Jake ****in' Paul. And so he should. He's a prizefighter.