Would Usyk only fight Lennox Lewis, Herbie Hide, Frank Bruno, Henry Akinwande during the 1990s

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  1. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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  2. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Dumb thread. There is Parker, Kabeyal and the Brits. Yeah, I would like to see him fight Parker, but its not like the 90s when you had absurd numbers of good American heavies.
     
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  3. turbotime

    turbotime Hall Of Famer Full Member

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    Lewis would KO Usyk. No, Husky wouldn't be beating Lewis's door down just to get KO'd we all know this.
     
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  4. MrPook

    MrPook Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Probably. He better stay away from Bowe and Holyfield with those body punches.
     
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  5. mrbigshot

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    Imagine in the 90's a guy who is about to become a two times undisputed hw champion and has a total of 5 hw opponents on his resume :duh
     
  6. Mark Anthony

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    And bigger money fights.
     
  7. Mark Anthony

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    Akinwande wasn`t a big name, Dubois just destroyed AJ who is a household name in the UK.
     
  8. Mark Anthony

    Mark Anthony Mollywhopper Full Member

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    There weren`t many 90`s heavyweights as talented as Usyk.
     
  9. Mark Anthony

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    Good point, but who were these American heavies? Holy, Bowe, Moorer and Tyson?
     
  10. MrPook

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    **** no he isn’t.
     
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  11. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    AJ unified WBA, IBF, WBO champ and #1 or #2 HW in the world

    Rematch clause

    Belly WBC champ and #1 or #2 HW in the world, for undisputed

    Rematch clause

    Dubois mandatory challenger

    Now #2 HW in the world, world champ who holds the only other belt, undisputed match up, have history as many claim the 1st fight was controversial

    All either the world champions and 1 or 2 in the world at the time or in one instance his mandatory challenger

    Chisora is the only one who wasn't and that fight made sense for a number of reasons. It was only Usyk's 2nd fight at the weight, Usyk was promoted by Matchroom, and Chisora is a very popular British fighter and beating him would've increased interest for Usyk vs AJ

    Not to mention AJ, Belly, and Dubois were/are the biggest most financially lucrative fights out there for Usyk, ones he earned or will earn an absolute fortune for facing and he had been criminally underpaid his entire career prior to facing them

    Over 60,000 tickers for Usyk vs Dubois II have been sold in the opening 24 hours. Who else in the HW division can sell like that? J-Park? Kabayel? Hrgovic?

    Usyk is almost 38.5 y/o.

    How many 38.5 y/o HW champs have fought a way bigger, much younger murderous punching KO 95% fellow champ, #2 ranked HW in the world in their backyard on a deck which will be heavily stacked against them, who also happens to be the dirtiest fighter in the division whilst they and their team aided and abetted by the Big Frank shills in the media won't shut up about the low blow and have the audacity to accuse Usyk of being a ''cheat''?

    How many other HW champs at 38.5 y/o have even fought a way bigger much younger murderous puncher like Dubois, let alone + all the rest?

    Even worse, not a single member of the British boxing media or fight fraternity uttered or have subsequently uttered a single peep about the many other low blows Dubois hit Usy with, the 22 + headbutts he cracked Hrgovic with which should've resulted in a DQ loss for Dubois and somehow the British ref missed every single one of them despite having the best seat in the house and then he decided to wave the fight off on cuts which were clearly caused by the billy goat butts. There no way in hell he didn't see most of those butts


    Nor a peep about the flagrant corruption that took place in Dubois vs Lerena in Dubois' fight prior to facing Usyk which booked him his shot vs him where the round mysteriously ended 9 seconds early when Dubois was in desperate trouble and had been down x 3.

    The British ref then proceeded to allow Dubois to fight on for 2.5 more rounds hobbling on one good leg only to dive in and wave the fight off AT THE BELL to end round 3 when Lerena was hurt instead of allowing him to return to his corner and recover during the 60 second interval which he 100% would pf if the roles were reversed. But these clowns have the audacity to kick up a huge fuss about Usyk ''cheating''
     
  12. cross_trainer

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    Give it time and we'll see. It's too early to say.
     
  13. Mark Anthony

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    Sorry just realised what you meant, I thought you were making an insulting joke about Usyk fighting Holy and Bowe now, lol Bowe and Holy were both easy to hit though and Holy was the same size as Usyk.
     
  14. MrPook

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    No offense but how so?
     
  15. Mark Anthony

    Mark Anthony Mollywhopper Full Member

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    I think Dubois might be better than Bowe was but Holy was a great fighter and I feel Usyk will easily out-class Dubois again.