I'd pick Oleksander Usyk to beat Max Schmeling

Usyk will be the champ, I suspect.

Assuming Usyk is serious about refusing step-aside money, and assuming the WBO are serious about stripping Joshua if he doesn't fight Usyk, Usyk will fight Dubois, Parker or Joyce, but probably Dubious or Parker for the WBO title sometime next year. Win or lose, Joshua is preferred by Usyk to Fury, so presuming Joshua doesn't retire after being beat by Fury twice, Usyk will be the road back and the fight the WBO will have been trying to make for 18 months by the time he is looking for one.

Whether or not all of this comes to pass is another matter, but I'm sure Joshua would prefer Parker or Doubois to Usyk.

 

It definitely is not. But I do think it will happen before any other fight next year. It's too rich and there's too much that could go wrong. It's going to dwarf any other fight that could be made now, excluding only Canelo probably.

Paker doesn't hit hard enough to KO Usyk with one punch I don't think and is clearly at a serious stylistic advantage here, at least for me. I'd make him a heavy, heavy favourite to beat Parker.

 

Imagine Joshua-Usyk happened before Joshua-Fury and Usyk won. That would cost boxing a 100 million.

 

It would not be massive sir. I mean Ruiz got double figure millions for fighting Joshua the second time and you could see something like that if that's what you mean, but it will be no bigger. Fury-Joshua is another level all together. Then another level.

 

Or Fury against whatever pass he picks. There's plenty that could go wrong.

 

Well the one thing about all this is that you can stage the fight absolutely anywhere because there are no ticket sales to worry about. So they can stage it on the Isle of Man, or Caithness or Orkney. I mean i'm not suggesting they will, but with Frank's network something in Aberdeen or Dundee is not beyond question.