If Usyk and Fury isn’t on next, I’d like to see him fight Big Big Baby Andereon

Bro what.................

 

Interesting, but kind of pointless. None of this has anything to do with what I wrote. @ellerbe misunderstood my post after getting all on his feelings when he saw Wilder tier 3. He had three bites at the cherry, and still got the wrong idea (note, my intention is never to derail a thread which I thought was about Anderson).

However, @CST80 feel free to write a detailed post about why Wilder deserves a title shot more than the winner of Zhang v Joyce, Hrgovic, and Ruiz Jr. at this point in time based on recent results. That would be an interesting read!

Here is what I originally said, and I'll add further detail:
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Who deserves a shot at Usyk:
Tier 1:
Fury

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Tier 2:
Zhang vJoyce (Winner)

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Hrgovic

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Ruiz Jr.

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Tier 3:
Joshua

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Wilder

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Bakole

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Sanchez

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Tier 4:

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Ajagba, Anderson, Makhmudov, Parker, Ortiz, Whyte

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I wish you well in explaining why Wilder deserves to be Tier 2 based on results.

 

I’m hoping Usyk fights Hrgovic next. Easy tick over fight while Fury has his exhibition bout

 

Not a bad post. Hrgovic was trying to take the lions share of the money with his IBF rank against far more known fighters. It does frustrate me that someone with such a poor resume can be mandatory. That said after watching Zhang batter Joyce, it makes his record look better. I did think Zhang won the fight but it was a close fight with no robbery.

I am hoping he gets the fight now vs Usyk so it can be put to bed

 

You make a good point, I'm caught between two stances on that.

On the one hand, I recognize that the IBF have a borked split system based on ranking, and also felt a lot of the issues were created by Hearn & Sauerland not willing to pay out to get Hrgovic decent opponents after racing him up the rankings (somewhat undeserved).

On the other hand, Hrgovic did focuss on the IBF rankings, and everyone on those rankings knew the split rules. It was the exact same thing when Whyte chose to fight Parker instead of an IBF final eliminator against Pulev (the majority called Whyte a duck for that), and Hughie Fury took the fight instead (because it was a chance at becoming mandatory).

Just like that, in the case with Hrgovic, many fighters should have been jumping at the opportunity just like H. Fury did. Instead, we had the PBC positioning their fighters on the IBF rankings with no intention of following through. They could have made Martin v Hrgovic when Martin was ranked above him, but instead they made Martin v Ortiz, and put it on PPV as an IBF eliminator. Then walked away from the final eliminator against Hrgovic citing injury. That was cynical, and I can't blame Hrgovic for that. Ruiz Jr. and Parker, was also understandable as they were far more established (but if Whyte duck Pulev, then they ducked Hrgovic). Everyone else on that top 10 had zero excuse, though. Which is why Zhang petitioned and got the fight.