A lot of people were pushing for this fight recently, how do you think it would've gone? now that we have seen Itauma, as talented as he is, isn't indestructible
Usyk would've beat the living daylights out of Itauma as the fight went on and stopped him. Even an old Usyk would set a pace that would drown him if Itauma couldn't go 9 with Hrgovic.
Usyk does what he does best - drags him out late and wins with stamina on points. They're too far apart in age to ever have a fair fight.
Yeah definitely Usyk. Itauma doesn't have Rico's sheer size, crazy gas tank and physical strength to replicate what happened a few months ago.
Pretty clear to me that Moses would have given Usyk some good work, maybe hurt him a couple times, in a dynamic, fun and exciting matchup, but that as Usyk raised his level, and began finding his proper ranges, coinciding with Moses declining as the fight progresses, he would begin raising the waters to a depth Moses cant swim in. I think its clear Usyk drowns Moses late and would have stopped him with sharp counters somewhere around the 6th to 8th. imo
I think Moses himself described this scenario as likely when all that talk was going on. That he expected Usyk to drown him in the later rounds. I think by the 5th round he’d have been breathing crazy hard
Usyk would have drowned him around the 8th imo. With the cards being about even or moses maybe even being up a round or two. No real sweat for Usyk. Still say Usyks number one goal even above the scoring is getting the opponent working harder than they want to be working. Moses would have had some real success....but a lot less than he had against Hrgovic and he,d have tired even quicker against Usyk.
What about Verhoeven vs Itauma that may just be his worst nightmare having that hulking man mountain constantly shuddering around right up in his face.