Is Usyk a Top 10 Heavyweight of all time?

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  1. Hi-Tek-Lomo

    Hi-Tek-Lomo Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Now that his career is coming to a close, where would you rank him to the all time greats like Louis and Ali?
     
  2. SupaKat

    SupaKat New Member Full Member

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    Definitely top 10. And Head to head he could be as high as you want
     
  3. Wizbit1013

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

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  4. Rubber Glove Sandwich

    Rubber Glove Sandwich 'Iranian flag green' reflecting pool Full Member

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    in terms of resume? h2h? A mixture of both? Mysterious fourth option?
     
  5. miniq

    miniq FURY COMETH 2026 Full Member

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    Usyk is only a couple wins short of easily cementing himself in that top 10 region but if you come to the party late and then slowly build into the division on meticulous PED cycle (why he fought once a year)...then you fall short.
     
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  6. chaunceygardina

    chaunceygardina Member Full Member

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    Cleaning up and completing the game, yes. But going on the quality of opposition, absolutely not.
     
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    Negenewen New Member Full Member

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  8. Perkin Warbeck

    Perkin Warbeck Boxing Aficionado Full Member

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    Yes.

    He's clearly in the top 10 of all time.
     
  9. Hi-Tek-Lomo

    Hi-Tek-Lomo Well-Known Member Full Member

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    You can only fight who they put in front of you. Joe Calzaghe had limited opposition but he's still the best Supermiddleweight of all time.
     
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  10. OldSchoolBoxing

    OldSchoolBoxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Cope.
     
  11. Blg Man

    Blg Man Member Full Member

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    usyk the guy that was getting beat up by a kickboxer and needed corruption to beat him ?

    NOOOOOO !!!!!! NOT EVEN CLOSE
     
  12. chaunceygardina

    chaunceygardina Member Full Member

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    I'm playing devil's advocate. I think I said after the 2nd Fury fight, he'll find his true place over time, with history taking its course. I think the short run he had at heavyweight, plays in his favour of regard, especially considering what he packed in that run. One thing for sure, he's top 10, for how he operates in the ring, alone!
     
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  13. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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  14. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Of course

    To quote myself

    I'm still waiting for someone to name me one fighter in the entire history of the sport who has gone undefeated in 17 years whilst fighting at the elite level for the vast majority of that time

    Never been knocked out in over 370 fights amateur and pro

    Never been dropped as a pro or even badly hurt

    Never been dropped by a headshot amateur or pro with the only possible exception being once which I've recently read was from a body shot

    Despite running a gauntlet of KO artists and legit bangers, much or way bigger than them at HW and SHW in the WSB

    Winning all their medals at major championships on the road as an amateur and all their world titles as a pro in their opponent's backyards sans one which was on the road

    Winning all their fights via pure skill and clean boxing with zero use of dirty tactics and deck-stacking

    And whilst fighting until 39 y/o and at the elite level until 38 y/o

    You can subtract a bunch of those and they still going to really struggle

    And in addition to that he was 4 months shy of turning 35 when he won his first HW title and 37 hen he became undisputed so he was already past or years past his prime when he became champ and conquered the division. Prime faster and more fluid and agile mongoose reflexes and reaction times Usyk does so in a lot easier in more dominant fashion

    And if he was fighting in most other eras where the HWs weren't these 240-280lb + giant SHWs he wouldn't have had to bulk up to 220-233lbs. The SHW giants of today are not the slow, crude, uncoordinated and unathletic Frankenstein's monsters of certain other eras who didn't even know how to use their range

    The closest to prime best Usyk at HW was AJ I

    Mike Tyson was KO'd or stopped x 6 by the time he was Usyk's age and knocked out in the amateurs

    Lennox Lewis was one punch iced x 2 in the midst of his prime by smaller fighters who Usyk would've boxed the ears off and he was also knocked out in the amateurs

    In the fight prior to one of his greatest wins Ali was dropped heavily and arguably saved from a KO defeat by the bell vs a Bivol sized Euro level 185lb HW. Ali was also stopped in the amateurs

    Larry Holmes was viciously knocked out x 2 in the amateurs and stopped another time

    Louis was badly hurt and was getting outboxed by a 168lb LHW who weighed less than 154-155lb Clenelo

    Wlad was stopped x 3 in his prime and dropped many times and stopped in the amateurs

    I can keep going

    No disrespect to these HW greats and I'm not disputing their greatness but none of those things have ever happened to Usyk even when old and long past his prime fighting savage punchers, giants, and savage punching giants in their backyards and on the road and that counts for something
     
  15. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I am not good with all time rankings but I am thinking for me he maybe falls just outside the top 10.
     
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