If Usyk had gone straight to heavyweight as a pro, AJ and Fury are never champions.

Usyk came to HW to get a payday against a big stiff useless bodybuilder.

He won't be able to compete with Fury

& when that moment happens I don't want to hear excuses or backtracking.

 

Pre Ruiz AJ would have knocked him out. As for Fury, marone, forget about it!

 

Usyk was an Olympic gold medallist signed to K2, the cruiserweight division isn't flush with cash (making name matchups more necessary to generate money) and Usyk would have been regarded as being more beatable as a pro novice than he would be ten fights down the road. Loma (who turned pro at the same time) fought Salido for a world title in his 2nd full pro fight. Usyk has evinced a willingness to travel and accept a smaller purse split, so I don't think there would be stumbling blocks in those respects either.

It's very strange, wasting three years fighting no-names like that after you make your debut at 26. Could he not get a single name cruiser or heavy to fight him over that period?

 

If he could have he would have imo. Loma had Arum behind him.

 

Yeah sure, and guys like Jermain Taylor at Middleweight and Joshua at Heavyweight were KO sensations and looked better when they fought tomato cans and journeymen when they first started out. Then the first time they fought world class guys they didn't get those KOs so easily and struggled more.

 

That would then mean that Usyk would beat Wlad before Fury and AJ beat Wlad. And that is already a special topic of "Usyk Vs. Wlad". Good idea...I haven't seen such a thread on the forum.

 

He's a good fighter.

 

Lol