Do you consider Usyk's amateur and/or WSB accomplishments to contribute to his legacy?

He has had 24 fights that I care for
Professional boxing is what I am a fan of and all that I follow. I think amateur boxing is a crock of **** and barley watch it outside of the Olympics

That's not a dig at usyk, I just don't care about amateur boxing. Fair play to those that do, but it's not for me

 

WSB wasn't amateur boxing. It was pro boxing by another name and without a boxrec record.

 

Add them then if you want, makes no difference to me.

 

Sure, why not, I'll spam this answer in here because I think it's worth a discussion:

I actually wonder why Usyk's team, watching his WSB performances, didn't re-think having him turn pro at CW. My thoughts would have been "well ****, that boy just took out every HW in the league in a row, why not get him in a weight room and just turn pro at HW?" I assume the thought was that he could clearly be a top HW (especially after beating six superheavies in a row in WSB), but that CW was a safer start with the assumption being he could clean out the division, so why not clean it out first. But I actually think it may have hurt his overall legacy -- I don't see anyone at HW who I think could have beat him. Real possibility he could have collected all the belts, retired undefeated having beat literally everybody worth a damn in the entire division.

Anyway, yes, it adds to his legacy. WSB was pro rules. His first six non-amateuer fights under pro rules were in WSB, against much bigger guys, one per month, and he beat all of them. Hell of a way for a guy who fought at 200 to begin a non-amateur career. And he did it without bulking up even. He was between what 205 and 210 for all of those fights.