Is Usyk ducking Kabayel? (VIDEO)

Woah Rummy, creating a little dysentery among the ranks with this one.

 

Very good.

Calling Oleksandr a duck from behind a screen says a lot more about the name caller than it does Usyk. Is he supposed to keep banging on with silverback gorillas & kodiak bears until he is 60?

 

Wilder is, I'd guess, a much more recognised name for casual fans than Kabayel. The Kabayel fight sells well in Germany or perhaps another European venue. Wilder sells well anywhere. His name, despite his recent frailties, has baggage. It is maybe as close to the name Tyson as we have had in our era. It is such a shame because Usyk is an A side fighter, hell, he's a gold plated double A plus side fighter, but his name on a bill isnt a draw. He needs matched with names that are recognisable outside of our close knit community or be involved in 'superfreak fights' like Rico at the pyramids...

A Wilder fight could give him a big Vegas pay day or the like...who knows...maybe its as simple as 'clearing house'. If they don't fight Wilder will always be the asterisk on his career...

 

Didn't emmanuel stewart say that eddie futch told him years after that he didn't believe in bowe's ability to win against lewis? I remember something like that...

 

90-10? That seens very low for me. And Lewis's canp did in the end accept it.

 

Imho - yes!

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Bravo. That's right.

 

Haha what?

Wilder an asterisk on usyk's career? Who would see it like that? Noone, not even ten years from now or later. Wilder, thrice beaten by Fury, himself twice beaten by usyk. Wilder, who's greatest possible, never was, matchup Joshua - twice beaten by Usyk. Wilder who lost to parker and zhang before usyk could even think of fighting him. Wilder who looked soso against old chisora. You could just as well say shannon briggs will forever remain an asterisk on wladimir's career.

And wilder the closest thing to tyson? Mike tyson? Yes he is american and had a lot of kos, but he wasn't a great draw at all. Fury is more recognizable in the us than wilder. Joshua is now, too, after the stupid jake paul Fight. Mike tyson is the first thing any casual thinks of when they think of boxing. At worst second behind Ali.

Do you want usyk to fight wilder?

 

Ah I thought that's where I got that from - so you don't believe it? Or you think it didn't translate to bowe or his team not making the fight?

 

It's not as Byrd not even was ranked higher than Vitali, he beat him. And Lewis wanted to fight Kirk Johnson, Klitschko was a late replacement.

 

I see nothing strange with that you give a counter offer to a bad offer. In the end it was Bowe/Newman who said no to getting 90 per cent out of what probably would have been the biggest purse they could get shy of a Holy rematch at the time.

As I remember it this was a fight that really was wanted. Lewis had beaten Bowe in the Olympics, was undefeated as a pro and came off a demolition of Ruddock that I remember as schocking,

Bowe wouldn't even take it for 90 per cent of the purse...