Usyk has lost 32 of his last 85 rounds.

You are asking too much there I suspect as it is a comparative judgement.

 

Thanks for this information. It carries an underlying indication that he has had assistance along the way. Arguably the last bout points to this.

 

Yes ridiculously dominant.

 

Exactly

It's the equivalent of playing football and having 80 percent possession but losing 1 0

 

Jennings won 3, it's 116-111 because Wlad was docked a point for holding.

According to OP, Wlad must be better than Usyk because he won a greater proportion of his rounds. Quality of opposition, A-side advatage and failing to win apparently do not matter.

 

"If a fighter keep winning close ones it means very little was needed to change that outcome"

Did Bivol beat Canelo "close" or did he school him and almost get robbed, purely because Vegas A-side Canelo started with a defacto 3 round lead?

Your statement applies in the inverse: if you can go many rounds in fight after fight while winning every time, as a B-side fighter, older, smaller and less powerful, against the top guys no less, this proves you are extremely hard to beat or draw with due to durability, ring IQ, stamina, determination etc. If you KO opponents regularly and early, these attributes are not tested, so seemingly dominant wins may he hiding major vulnerabilities.

"Here's what other non dominant HW reigns look like"

He's 8-0 at HW post-Witherspoon having beaten the three best fighters he could have beaten (all 2x titlists, likely future HoF), done so twice, and this is "non-dominant". If Usyk has "performed the worst since Ruiz and Byrd" all it shows is that the metric is meaningless.

Also, ironic that neither Joshua or Fury could do the "very little" to "change the outcome", despite going the distance and winning several rounds officially in their first fights.

 

At HW? He dominated Joshua. Completely outboxed and almost stopped him.

 

Maybe 25 or so ?

 

This.

 

Usyk is 39 years old, Father Time is undefeated, for a guy that gets by on boxing ability and speed, without having a huge punch it’s a heavy lift to expect him to keep winning. He’s almost always undersized sooner or later it’s going to cost him at this point. I don’t think a loss at this time will hurt his legacy. Certainly not to someone like Kabayal. Had he lost to Rico - it would have hurt. Losing to A boxer with a 1-0 record in the sport is a bad loss. Rico however surprised everyone, especially with his stamina. I figured all along that Usyk’s plan was to drown him in the later rounds and just have a good show, but Rico didn’t tire out nearly as fast as I or many others thought he would. He fought smart, applied aggressive pressure to a guy getting old and that made a tough fight.
I saw Wlad get old during the Jennings fight. He had lot more fights at heavy than Usyk but 39 is 39 for an undersized modern fighter, that can’t knock out an opponent with one punch.
Usyk should retire. Hats off to him though if he continues on and beats someone like Kabayal.

 

Always love a good stat.
It's interesting, but while I think we all know Fury and Joshua weren't at their best, in fairness to him, Usyk was fighting both them and the officials at times.
But still the stat is the stat. The majority of his fights at heavyweight have been highly competitive (including one against a kickboxer)