Usyk is vacating all the belts!

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by DoctorJones, Jun 26, 2026.


  1. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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    Made to order?

    Ha!

    Ridiculous.
     
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  2. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Top 10 ATG, I wish him happiness.
     
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  3. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    Never change my friend, never change :risas3:
     
  4. Bokaj

    Bokaj Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Fair enough that he vacates the belts and fights anyone he wants. It would not be a great move for a fighter in his prime, but at his age it's much more understandable.

    But he should have done it after Dubois 2. Now he has held up the division for a year, and it comes off more as a duck of Kabayel than anything else.

    A bit of a shame.
     
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  5. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Lineal is the only true championship. You didn't even had the championship belts until 1920's and The Ring belt, and alphabet belts didn't emerge until the 60's.
     
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  6. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Wilder fanboys are truly delusional.
     
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  7. Fleisch3000

    Fleisch3000 New Member Full Member

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    I would go further and say Dubois, Fury, Hrgovic, Itauma and probably Rico can beat Kabayel
     
  8. VBOX

    VBOX JOURNEYMAN Full Member

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    Whatever. The fighter makes the belts the belts don’t make the fighter.
     
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  9. gollumsluvslave

    gollumsluvslave Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'm sure in hindsight Usyk will realise he should have done this after Dubois II. Still have to wonder how much of the decision making in all this is coming from Lapin. Playing to Usyk's love of the sport to keep milkiing more money from him in any way he can
     
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  10. SouthpawsRule

    SouthpawsRule Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Respects to the guy for not holding up the division.
     
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  11. OldSchoolBoxing

    OldSchoolBoxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Maybe they will pay Usyk a huge amount of money to take a dive and then the lineal heavyweight champion title will belong to a Zuffa boxer...
     
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  12. OldSchoolBoxing

    OldSchoolBoxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Kabayel isn't in the same league with Usyk, he's hyped by his comrades.
     
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  13. OldSchoolBoxing

    OldSchoolBoxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Most likely, Zuffa promised him more money for a single fight than he would earn by winning the three fights he would have with the sanctioning bodies’ titles on the line, but made it a condition that he vacate those titles.

    Maybe they even offered him an astronomical amount to deliberately lose to a Zuffa boxer so that the lineal heavyweight champion title would pass to Zuffa.
     
  14. OldSchoolBoxing

    OldSchoolBoxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Kabayel will lose his next fight, provided that he fights a boxer in top 10, and his hype train will disappear forever.
     
  15. OldSchoolBoxing

    OldSchoolBoxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    lol.