Usyk vs Rico - Preview Video

Just watched a minute of Rico box and kickbox

Why are they even talking like there is a chance? Saying stupid stuff like he's never this before, seen what a total amatuer upright plumb? He saw that against AJ and when he was boxing as a teenager before he's even gone 6 rounds.

 

We about to find out this was really the Rico era all along.

As @Rumsfeld said, this guy has been undefeated since 2015! He beats Usyk and you can forget about Fury, Joshua, whoever: Rico will have been the real successor to Klitschko.

Klitschko ~2015 || 2015~ Rico

 

Lol. Rico has literally no chance at all. He doesn't even KO guys in kickboxing and his only chance would have been a puncher's chance.

 

We agree on this 100%. I sheath my sword for lack of argument.

 

I had no idea that a boxer, namely Holly Holm, already crossed over and won a UFC title.

I do remember that Ray Mercer knocked out Tim Sylvia in seconds.

Boxing has already won the argument, even with the Fury humiliation. They can weaponize anything they want, boxers have already proven to make good MMA fighters, and no MMA fighter is going to compete without learning some boxing.

I think all combat sports fans are just going to have to accept that cross-fertilization has always been a thing, and it is just going to increase over time now.

 

So, everybody gets that the real point of this event is for Hamzah Sheeraz to fight for a world title in front of a pyramid right? You can’t build an event that big around Hamzah, so they use Usyk as the official draw. But the real point is Hamzah. Someone with Arab blood fighting for a world title in front of a pyramid. And Hamzah is going to wreck that dude btw.

 

Now that I heard about 2027 as the date of Kabayel, I honestly think Turkyi is trying to run out the clock with Usyk, and split titles off that he can work with. Two birds with one stone, here.

 

While Usyk will likely win east, eventually a kick-boxer or mma guy will beat a world champ boxer in an upset and boxing as a sport will be embarrassed. And is, as fans, will be embarrassed by extension.

 

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I concur.

Rico is a big ol unit, in damned good shape, a dominant champion in his own right, and as a result will be as mentally tough as Usyk.

Usyk rightly is the big odds favourite, but i cannot see Rico having accepted this fight if he believed that he would lose in humiliating fashion, unless he sees the likely massive purse that will dwarf any purse he got in kickboxing, as a satisfying compensation for being a Usyk punchbag.