Warren says Usyk is injured/Parker will likely defend full WBO title against Whyte-Itauma winner

Hahahahaha.

Usyk is injured , oh yes , of course .

And now all together :
Usyk never ducks , he fights everybody everywhere !!!

 

It'll be hilarious if Whyte wins this weekend, ends up beating Parker, and then gets to fight Usyk.

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If Whyte wins this weekend will Warren still be looking to make the Parker fight?

He says he will do the winner of Itauma vs Whyte, but we all know he means Itauma for Parker and the WBO. I can't see why he would make the fight if Whyte wins unless Parker really wants it.

I think Parker wouldn't be mad against the Whyte fight, he would be disappointed not to get Usyl or anyone in the legit top 5, but he has always said he wanted to avenge the loss.

I think Parker wouldn't be too happy about fighting Itauma also, because he is a young guy who hasn't really proven himself, even if he beats a washed Whyte. A bit of let down compared to an Uayk fight, and Parker wants to fight the best around.

 

"Dmitry Bivol has been ordered by the WBO to produce medical documentation about his back injury, surgery, and prognosis. The WBO is insisting on transparency for his recovery and wants to view the physician’s reports."

I trust the same transparency will be requested of Usyk.

 

Yeah isn't he supposed to be relaxing on holiday with his family?

And I don't really understand the timeliness, how does being injured prevent a fight being negotiated? Presumably they can just negotiate the fight to take place after he is recovered? Seems like a stalling tactic to me.

I believe the reason Usyk fights so rarely is because of the level of preparation he puts in for his opponents. And it's part of the reason he can do what he does.

Becomes a bit of drag though when he holds all the belts and starts to hold up the division.

 

It was the same for the IBF, they all have injuries during camp or after fight but often they can use as an excuse to delay making decisions not that the injury prevents them from doing anything. Just taking advantage of the rules

 

This is why I'm not a fan of the division now in general fighters are just not active enough or we see too many pointless rematches.

Whether someone likes Parker or not he's being shafted here out of his deserved fight vs Usyk no question.

Dubois "pulled out" vs Parker and in reality that fight should've been rescheduled not cancelled because that's not fair to Parker that Dubois just automatically gets another shot at Usyk. Whilst Parker had to fight the bogeyman of the division at that time in Bakole.

So you've had Parker waiting on the sidelines for Usyk/Dubois 2 and now he's being shafted again here.

Boxing isn't fair.

 

interesting he was uninjured when visiting selensky or playing football

 

I don't like how there just given the belt.. Parker should have to fight for it, just like Dubois should have had to fight for it.

 

Following the same procedures everybody else has in the game for 50+ years? Yeah it counts. Might not like the politics behind stripping somebody so frequently but you can't pick and choose when "it counts" or not. Does Parker's belt count since it was vacant? If you want to fine comb the rulebook... You haven't made a single post that i've seen that gives anyone but Kiwis their flowers which is fine but I just know if he played or used the rules that way, or if they just fell that way, you'd be screaming 3x PARKER 3X PARKER!

 

Thats part of the reason I'm one of the few who don't mind the IBF strictly enforcing their mandatories. It keeps divisions moving and turns up new fighters that might otherwise go under the radar and not get a title shot.

 

People act like Usyk has no agency in his career and is just controlled by everyone else some how.

The reality is that Usyk has more power than anyone else in the division on what happens. Sure he has hard and grueling camps, but no one else is making that choice for him. Sure he had rematch clauses to fulfill, but no one else made him sign those or not defend his titles in between.

The guy is at the top of the division, undefeated, undisputed, he is super rich and undoubtedly the king. So how is it that people act like he has been hard done by?

The fact is that if Usyk was keen on fighting Parker he could still negotiate a fight for a date after he recovers from injury. The fact that he is instead asking for an extension to the negotiation period implies that he is not that interested in fighting Parker and is instead trying to keep his options open.

 

He's the undisputed undefeated HW champ of the world. He can absolutely choose who he wants to fight and not some corrupt boxing organization that only cares about sanctioning fees.

It's good to be king.