Has Usyk ever been hurt by a shot to the head?

His chin is iron and the fact he hasn't been dropped or badly hurt by a head shot given the murderer's row of punchers he's fought, both amateur/WSB and pro, many being much bigger than him too, is pretty amazing.

Buzzed, rocked even, felt the weight of a shot, yes but I've never seen him on wobbly legs, knees dip, close to going down or hurt or in big trouble. Gassiev caught him with a huge right hand that slipped between his guard at the end of the round which rocked him a bit but wasn't badly hurt by it and it was freaking Gassiev for goodness sake.

 

OK let's do this

Current fighters hurt or dropped by head shots

Let's start with the P4P top 10

Crawford - both
Inoue - no
Usyk - no
Clenelo - hurt once
Bivol - hurt once
Spence - both, hurt numerous times
Haney - hurt
Twink - no
Teofimo - down numerous times
Loma - dropped once

Other current champs, former champs or contenders

Belly - both many times
The Dosser - both many times
AJ - both many times
Fat Andy - both numerous times

Badou Jack - both, numerous times
Opetaia - not sure. Briedis hurt him a bit but his jaw was badly broken
Goulamirian - not as far as I'm aware
CBS - hurt, 1 bogus KD
Okolie - both
Makabu - both
Dorticos - both
Briedis - no. He backed off in pain against Opetaia but that was after a vicious flush uppercut shattered his nose

Beterbiev - both
Gvozdyk - both
Joe Smith - both
Yarde - both
Zurdo - both I think. Might be wrong
Dirrell - both

I can keep going but you get the picture

Now factor in how many big punchers or KO artists they've fought

Some have barely fought any, let alone their size

Some have barely fought any and been hurt or dropped by light-average punchers

Some have fought one or two and been dropped by them

Some have fought lots, many bigger than them, and only been dropped or hurt once

Some have been stopped or knocked out. Numerous times even

Usyk has fought loads of them, more so than any of them or any other current champ I can think of off the top of my head, including many of the biggest punchers in the sport, and never been dropped by a head shot and he's fought many who are much bigger than him too

 

Forgot about that. Yeah a bit. Definitely buzzed and rocked but to be fair, despite the fact he hasn't fought many punchers, that was a monster flush shot from a legit KO artist and if a shot like that doesn't at the very least have that kind of effect on you you're probably not human.

Also, he ate a lot of good shots before that and leading up to that moment and he was compromised by a fractured orbital socket and broken nose so I'm actually really impressed by his toughness there, and even more so because he looks like a FTM K-pop star.

 

Thanks. It's a confusing one for me because I have this feeling I've seen him dropped in one of his early fights but I might be mixing him up with someone else. It might be the other Mexican SMW Marco Antonio Periban

 

FTM tough guy

I say he hasn't fought many punchers but to be fair I'm not familiar with some of those leprechaun children he fought at his first few weights. I suspect they probably aren't big punchers or at least not most of them.

But that first fight against Nonito is a good example of a fighter proving their chin in a single fight