Dillian Whyte vs. Jermaine Franklin & Fabio Wardley vs. Nathan Gorman RBR.

Like him or not you can't be too hard on AJ for losing to Usyk. The man is a freak of nature athlete and a generational talent of boxing.

 

My whole point too.

There's absolutely no shame in getting outboxed by Usyk. And his A game is so, very so consistent.

He is getting older now though and he has had so many amateur and pro fights combined that there will come a point in the not to distant future that he will lose at some point. Mileage on the clock is always a factor for any sportsman.

The two other fighters that that I think could possibly do it are Fury and Joyce.

Joyce is the one to carefully watch overall. I know he's no youngster himself but he's the type to have a long peak.

 

Usyk would need an off day and father time to beat him but they would be terrific fights to watch for certain.

 

From what I'm reading here, a lot of people had Franklin takin this. Seems to be kind of split with others having Whyte by a few. I will catch the tube highlights but it seems I didn't miss anything good. Is Whyte a journeyman yet.

 

Lol um know. Usyk isn't anything special. Usyk landed around 25 percent of his punches against a slow Joshua who was right in front of him. That is pathetic. To put this to perspective a old 40 plus year old George Foreman was landing a much higher percentage of his punches. Usyk beat Joshua because of how bad Joshua is, not because of how special Usyk is.

 

I had Whyte winning 116-112 or 115-113. Mostly, because I gave Whyte the last three rounds. But tip of the cap to Franklin who came to fight and clearly had his moments. He'd do well to lose 20-25 lbs (he was at 227 lbs when he fought Craig Lewis a few years back), but it appears he's a legit fringe contender.

 

I scored Whyte vs Franklin a draw

 

I had 115-113 Whyte but could score it differently if I watched it today.

Thought McGirt was shocking in the corner, Whyte needs to go back to Mark Tibbs

 

McGirt was fine but their gameplan was all wrong. Franklins corner was good.

if Franklin had a one hitter quitter in him Whyte would have got starched plodding forward like that.