Is Usyk an all-time-great fighter?

Chitown · Dec 22, 2025

Yorbals said: ↑

It’s hard to say

on one hand , you could say, boxing has evolved , the modern skilled super heavies are insurmountable, nobody of historically average heavy size/weight can beat them. Usyk is a god because he did that. He’s the goat

But then you could say, these modern heavies are big slow lumbering giants, if Ali/Frazier/Holmes/whoever was in this era they have a field day.

I think Usyk is in the middle somewhere, he’s beeen able to expose these fighters due to being the only current heavy with ATG skills.

But, I can’t rate him too highly because i always thought that the current heavy era was weak and if there was one skilled guy committed to his craft then the division is there for the taking.

I rate Usyk somewhere around where I rate Wlad, just outside of the top ten. It’d be nice to rate Usyk higher but I see quite a few heavies beating Fury/Joshua at least as easy as Usyk.

He’s borderline ATG, at least. I think he benefits from an over-evaluated competition though, Im not sure he’s as good as Golovkin for example.
Superb fighter though
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This thread seems to be asking is Usyk an ATG fighter not ATG HW. Rating Usyk as a HW around Wlad level and outside top 10 is fair.... But you have to factor in he's top 2 ever at CW too if not the CW GOAT. With both divisions accounted for its not even arguable his ATG status

The Cryptkeeper · Dec 22, 2025

A bit unfair to bump this 3 years on.

Usyk is an ATG, in fact he is a legend. There can be no reasonable argument to the contrary.

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