Look, I want to see it as much as anyone, but Usyk is not "ducking" Parker.

It's not only untrue and absurd to suggest Usyk is ducking J-Park, it's downright disrespectful to Usyk given the man he is, his track record, and the way he has conducted himself and his career path

Again, I love J-Park, don't think I've ever rooted against him, and I would rather see him vs Uysk for a number of different reasons but if some of his fans are going to be so disrespectful towards Usyk and throw around these ridiculous ''ducking'' accusations I'm going to fire back

Firstly, contrary to what many are saying, Dubois is the more dangerous and risky option for Usyk not J-Park

Aside from him possessing devastating power and being one of the top 3 hardest punchers in the division, he's performed much better vs all the common opponents he shares with J-Park, brutally knocking out one of the fighters who beat J-Park, scoring a HL reel KO2 over one of the fighters who took J-Park the distance, and losing on an eye injury in a razor close very competitive fight to the fighter who knocked J-Park out

Secondly, Dubois' three fight run since losing to Usyk is more impressive for me than J-Park's three fight run is

Dubois won all his fights via KO or stoppage, whereas, J-Park only won 1 of his via stoppage

Beating AJ >> beating The Dosser who so many say is completely shot

But sparking out AJ sure as hell is more impressive than beating even a prime Dosser on points who has been brutally KO or TKO'd in all his other losses

Beating Big Bang on points, in a fight where Bang dropped you twice despite barely letting his hands go, is not as impressive as stopping the iron-jawed Hrgovic. Sure, the headbutts were disgraceful and should not have been allowed but Hrgovic and Big Bang are about the same level or were when they fought and Hrgovic is much younger than him

Bakole is better than Miller but Miller had a full camp, whereas, conversely, Bakole came off the couch, a long flight, on 48 hours notice and, contrary to what we'd lead to believe, had not sparred in over 4 months and was in much worse shape than we'd been told he was. Bakole arrive in Saudi like 18 hours if not less before he was due in the ring looking utterly exhausted. Dubois stopped a full camp iron-jawed Miller who actually trained to fight him

If you want to make an argument J-Park's three fight run is better feel free but even if it is it would only be slightly so

And Dubois has 2 losses to J-Park's 3 and the later has at least one unofficial loss in addition to that to Chisora, and arguably lost at least 2 other times too

Dubois lost to Usyk and Joyce

J-Park lost to AJ, Joyce and Whyte and arguably lost to Chisora, Fat Andy and Hughie

If AJ is such a ''bum'' then what's more impressive out of brutally knocking him out or losing on points to him?

If Belly's resume is trash and The Dosser is a bum then what's so impressive about J-Park boxing extremely tentative fight against a shot old version of him

If Hrgovic is a bum then what's so impressive about beating an old version of the guy he lost to or in most people's eyes edged by a point because of a bogus KD, especially when the OAP dropped you twice and would've knocked you out had they actually threw more than 3 punches a round?

You can't have it both ways just like you can't claim Dubois was robbed against Usyk and then claim he's ducking J-Park if he fights Dubois

And Usyk has history with Dubois and he wants to silence the critics who have been so vocal about the first fight. He's 37 y/o and he could've easily pulled a Lewis and ducked the rematch like Lewis did to Vitali at the same age

 

How long does Jack Massey last vs Dubois before he gets violently KO'd? 1 or 2 rounds?

If Usyk is going to lose at this age it's going be because of getting caught with something massive by one of these prime way bigger giants due to his age related decline not due to being outboxed. And given how Dubois has murderous power and not only has HL reel KO'd fighters who've beaten J-Park or who J-Park couldn't stop but would do the same to many of the other fighters who've beaten J-Park, arguably beaten him or who took him the distance and we all know this

And the risk vs Dubois is also increased due to how dirty he is, especially if the fight is in the UK where Usyk could very well will be facing 5 people in the ring not just 1 in J-Park

 

Jesus wept. Usyk is 38 y/o, says himself he only has 2 fights left, and is fighting someone who god knows how many morons claimed was cheated out of a win against him in a ''controversial fight'' and who they also claim is much improved now since his recent run of form of three stoppage wins in succession. If he fights J-Park instead he gets crucified for ''ducking'' a rematch with a ''much improved'' and ''much more experienced'' fighter ''who knocked him out with a body shot'' in their first ''highly controversial fight.''

Dubois is the much more dangerous and risky fight for Usyk at his age, an age in where he is a couple of months away from becoming the 6th oldest HW champion of all time and will be the 5th oldest if he still holds the belt at the end of July. He's already the 8th oldest and the 3rd oldest unified champ and 2nd oldest undisputed one as it stands right now. So he's taking on the much more dangerous option, a fight I would rather him not take at his age.

Even Don Charles said most fighters would not have been man enough to do that and would've swerved the fight with a W already over Dubois and I agree with him. Dubois hits like a mule on steroids and is much bigger, younger and fresher than him.

And we don't know who the 2nd opponent will be yet. It could be J-Park. I get that many are desperate to see Usyk lose but he has zero history of ducking anyone. Quite the opposite, in fact, and if others have earned the right to fight who the hell they want at his age then so too has he

Hell, he could tuck tail and run from the sport like Lewis did at the same age as him and Lewis was not only an actual legit HW but a giant facing men his size or smaller not way bigger

Or he could pull a Floyd and fight a Berto level opponent or go on a kickboxer and MMA fighter tour