Has anybody seen Usyk vs Korobov?

People still clinging to Usyk losing to elite fighters who had 250 plus fights when he was a skinny inexperienced bambino who had only been boxing a few years

Korobov is one of the best amateurs I've ever seen

His CV is crazy

He went on a five year unbeaten run in the amateurs winning gold at the World Amateur Championships in 2005 and 2007 and European gold in 2006. He won the Russian nationals in 2003 and 2004, beating the 2000 Olympic gold medalist Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov in them IIRC but the national squad selection committee decided to send Gaydarbekov to the 2004 Olympics instead. Gaydarbekov won silver losing by 2 points in the final.

From 2004-2008 among many others Korobov beat Usyk, Kovalev, Badou Jack twice, Danny Jacobs, Sergiy Derevyanchenko, Ismail Sillakh, Carlos Gongora, Bakhtiyar Artayev, Alfonso Blanco, Dmitrii and Fedor Chudinov, Emilio Correa, Yordanis Despaigne, Elshod Rasulov, Mohamed Hikal, Darren Sutherland, Jarrod Fletcher etc. The scary thing is he stopped most of them on the outscored rule: Jack, Derevyanchenko, Jacobs, Usyk, Gongora, Fedor Chudinov, Sillakh, Sutherland, Fletcher were all stopped on the outscored rule

Usyk fought Korobov and Porter in 2006. Usyk and Porter were like 19 and Korobov 23

Porter took up boxing aged 4, had been competing since he was 8, and had over 250 bouts when he fought Usyk

Korobov finished up with an amateur record of 301-10 and turned pro two years after beating Usyk so obviously he's been boxing since he was very young too

Usyk didn't even walk into a gym until he was 15

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