Martin Bakole is not impressed with Usyk after sparring with him

He didn't say he wasn't impressed with him

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Dave Allen was impressed after sparring him and in his own words knocked out on his feet from a solitary left hand. Allen is teak-tough and has never been down. Allen only had 10 amateur fights and he fought the very big punching Dillian Whyte and Luis Ortiz in just his 11th and 12th pro fights, neither of whom could drop him

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Usyk isn't a KO puncher but he can punch when he wants to

And he's fought a lot of very durable fighters

Briedis was undefeated, a reigning world champion, and has never been hurt, let alone dropped, stopped or KO'd. Briedis has sparred many rounds with the Klitschko brothers and according to James Ali Bashir was never hurt which he says is very rare for anyone who has done over 30 rounds with Wlad

Gassiev was undefeated, a reigning unified champion, and has never been hurt, let alone dropped, stopped or KO'd. Gassiev has sparred many top HWs and bashed up and wrecked numerous top 10 ones according to reliable sources

Glowacki was a reigning world champion, undefeated and had never been stopped at the time. Okolie stopped a past prime Glowacki and Okolie has freakish dimensions for CW, is in his own trainer's words really a HW boxing at CW, and can really crack. Usyk boxed and moved against Glowacki and wasn't even trying to get him out of there. When Usyk fought Huck who disrespected him he was in full sadist mode and wanted to punish and hurt him.

Hunter had never been hurt, dropped, stopped or KO'd. Uysk had him in big trouble in the final round, sent him reeling into the ropes which the ref rightfully called a KD and many refs would've stopped the fight in the 12th due to the amount of punishment Hunter was taking. Usyk had Hunter in way more trouble than Bakole did. Not saying he hits harder than him but that's just a fact. To be fair, Hunter was heavier against Bakole though.

Hunter boxed up at SHW in the ams and was never stopped by any of the huge behemoths he fought up there: Fury, Roberto Cammarelle, Fat Andy Ruiz, Islam Timurziev (huge puncher), and Oscar Rivas among others. Bakole stopped four extremely tough and durable HWs on the spin after losing to Hunter but the little CW Hunter stopped him.

Bellew was undefeated at CW, a much more healthy weight for him than 175 where he looked like a reanimated corpse at weigh ins, and had only been stopped once, by the murderous punching Adonis and that was down at 175

Usyk stopped Huck who was a former long-reigning world champion and had only been stopped twice, once in the 12th round when he was young and very green and utterly exhausted, the other time in the 11th by the big punching Glowacki

Usyk stopped Mchunu who is very slick, tricky awkward and talented and has beaten some very good fighters

Chisora who fights with his face and is teak-tough and had only been stopped by the murderous punching Haye and Whyte from a picture perfect left hook and by Fury on a corner retirement after taking systematic beating and Fury needed two stabs at trying to get Chisora out of there as did Whyte

Here's Usyk stopping Eric Brechlin in the WSB. Usyk gave him three standing counts and did enough to make Brechlin's corner feel compelled to throw in the towel

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Brechlin lasted the full five round distance against the absolutely murderous punching 260lb giant Arslanbek Makhmudov and big punching behemoth Hrgovic in the WSB.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I could swear there appears to be footage of Usyk dropping and stopping a 270lb SHW in a couple of rounds here. Said SHW lost on a cut eye in the 4th round to Joe Joyce in the WSB and had beaten some pretty decent fighters in the WSB too.

And I'm pretty sure there's also some footage here of Usyk backing up and having a 250-260lb giant SHW looking decidedly concerned, positively intimidated even. I know these things happened because I saw them with my own eyes. As I've been saying for years, the Usyk who fought in the WSB, who was clearly more fluid, faster, with quicker reaction times and reflexes, and who couter punched a lot more which is exactly what he should've been working on for AJ and the rest of the HWs he's fought in the pros, would cause nightmares for all these lumbering giants. He didn't need to bulk up.

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