I think Usyk should retire - is it worth losing it all?

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Aside from Usyk having won everything there is win and achieved everything there is to achieve in boxing

Olympic gold
World Amateur gold
European gold

The Ali Trophy

Fighter of the Year which he should win again this year too

CW

WBC
WBA
IBF
WBO

Undisputed CW champ

HW

WBC
WBA
IBF
WBO

Undisputed HW champion

Undefeated

Won all his medals at major tournaments in the amateurs on the road

Won 7 of his 8 world titles at CW and HW in his opponent's backyards, the 8th on the road

He's never had home advantage in a world title fight or fight at the world level sans if you consider his fight in Poland vs Dubois as a home fight

And in complete contrast to across the pond where there virtually always have home refs (and on the 1% blue moon occasions if even that high they don't it will be a neutral ref) and it's practically the norm for them to have 3 home judges and I mean home refs and judges for world title fights vs foreigners, he's had a whopping 2 home judges combined in all his world title fights and fights at the world level and 0 home refs. This is like the complete antithesis of across the pond. It's like the mirror image or negative

And he's achieved all this in just 23 fights, whilst being a pure legacy fighter who has sought out the best in both divisions he's campaigned in, in their backyards, whilst being the B-Side with the deck stacked against him, via the application of pure skill and the use whilst being one of the least dirty fighters ever, with zero deck-stacking, zero trying to gain advantages at the negotiating table be they fair or unfair, zero ducking, zero ducking or dodging certain styles or punchers, zero cherrypicking, zero trying to age anyone out, against prime opponents (the oldest ever being 36), whilst being one of the nicest, most likable, most humble, classy, and respectful to everyone be they his opponents, the media, fans even when given ample reason not to, whilst giving away massive/obscene physical advantages up at HW and never having been badly hurt, put on wobble legs, let alone dropped or stopped (low blow doesn't count) despite having run a gauntlet of murderous punchers and legit bangers, many way bigger and heavier than him, and a whole bunch of the sport's biggest puncher, both literally and in the P4P sense

This is completely unprecedented, let alone in just 23 fights

Do you have any idea how few, if any you can say all or even most of that about? And I mean including the top 10 ATGs.

The haters and detractors say he only has 23 fight, but 12 of then were world title fights and if he beat 20 bums like the vast majority of the other greats did at the start of their careers he would be 43-0 with a much higher KO% because he's 9-0-0 (9 KOs) down at that level

And even worse, not only does he have to slay all these giants at HW despite having everything stacked against him he has to do so twice (and it would've been three times vs AJ had he not lost to Dubois and talk of Usyk vs Belly III has already started)

And then after doing so with the deck stacked heavily against him when he was already past his prime and four months shy of turning 35 when he won his first HW title, all we hear are pathetic excuses to try and discredit him

Him being criticized for fighting the same group of fighters again and again when in reality what's actually happening is they're giving these giants as many rolls of the dice as they need to achieve the desired result until one of them eventually beats him which no other fighter is expected to do

Let alone from 35 y/o onwards in a land full of giants twice their size on a deck stacked heavily against them when facing murderous punching giants with KO 90-95% against actual legit HWs and giants or giants 40-55lbs heavier than him whose power will obviously be magnified a great deal against fighters they hold obscene weight advantages over

 

And aside from it literally being the perfect time for him to bow out, and if he decides to retire in just 8 months he will be the 5th oldest HW champion ever, the oldest ever unified one, and the four older ones above him were all 240-250lb + giants like Vitali, Wlad, Foreman, and Maskaev being the smallest (ie. all huge or big natural HWs)

And if he were to lose at 38 y/o + which history proves is the case resoundingly for all but a tiny few HW champions throughout boxing history and there is only one HW champion in history over the age of 39, there's a million and counting strong committee of insecure vultures swarming who are praying for his demise who can't wait to swoop on him and tear his legacy to pieces with their beaks and talons because they feel deeply threatened by him and his success for whatever reason or whatever `various reasons

And are all in their feelings because people dare to suggest that, god forbid, he's a generational great which he undoubtedly is, is the best fighter of his generation which he is, is an ATG which he is, and that, god forbid, he could beat the HW greats, some of the HW greats, or hold his own and become a champ in any era

And who don't believe that a fighters who don't hail from the right parts of the world are inferior, inferior whilst also simultaneously being immune to the ageing process and being held to a standard in that regard or when it comes to incurring a loss or losses that they hold no other fighters to

So of course we want to see him retire at the top when he's already 38 y/o and been past his prime for years and has nothing left to achieve.

Not to mention he's literally one of the nicest and most likeable fighters to ever grace this sport and one of the nicest sportsman in the history of sports, period

The problem isn't overzealous Usyk fans it's the kind of 'fans' I'm alluding to

 

Thanks

Don't get me started on the dinosaur worshiping boxing paleontologists

Exactly, instead of creating a SHW division they created a CW one, so almost all the HW greats from before the super sized HW era are CWs by today's standards and they were beating men their own size, smaller, much smaller, a bit bigger, or much or way bigger a handful of times and almost all the giants of their eras were unathletic, slug slow and low skilled Frankenstein's monsters or much more so than the ones of today.

Usyk is fighting these athletic giants all the time art HW not just occasionally or once in a blue moon who hold huge or obscene physical advantages over him on a deck stacked against him when he was already in his mid 30s and past his prime. He's playing Russian roulette with two bullets in the chamber

Why hasn't Usyk been KO'd

Knocked down

Suffered embarrassing losses or KO losses

Like all the other HW greats have?

Why hasn't he been badly hurt or knocked down by 22-30lb lighter opponents in his prime like top 3 ATG HW greats have?