Ignoring the low blow controversy… Dubois failed miserably.

Usyk and Dubois looked fine after the fight, no real damage in their appearance, slight swelling on Dubois' eye but nothing to write home about. Both fighters were tentative to let loose, both fighters struggled to land a meaningful shot other than the controversial body blow.

Usyk definitely respected Dubois power. I found it interesting how Usyk rushed over to Dubois' corner after the fight was over and spat some illogical diatribe with the hope that it would distort the situation. 'This is boxing, this is boxing, this is boxing'. What does that even mean?

His diatribe worked and distorted the situation, so it seems.

 

Impresive, but I would say that making your opponent run from you is more impresive.

 

• Zhang turned his back to Hrgovic and ran, that is very different and say "fear", this was a tactic that Usyk does 15 times in a round.
• Smashing? Man halding him (like a woman?) are you a chinese bot?
• Seems like you didnt actually looked at the statistic, you watched DAZN highlights, didnt you? Look at the stats, Hrgovic landed 2x more of everything
• Zhang wasnt Hurt for the entire fight, then why did he run for his life?

 

AJ and Dubois were approaching their matches with Usyk a little differently in my opinion. AJ wanted to outbox a master boxer who was a naturally lighter, quicker fighter. Dubois on the other hand was looking for the one shot kill with defense in mind.

Usyk came out victorious with both opponents and credit to him.

 

His actions in the match spoke a bit differently in my opinion, Dubois that is.

 

Dubois won 2-3 rounds?!?!?!?!? WTF were you watching??? Most couldn't give him a single round, and being generous you might say 1 round (I don't). Try to have some honesty on these forums.

 

I thought rounds 3,4,5, and 7 we're debatable. I had Dubois winning rounds 4 and 5.

 

I blame Dubois for not sticking to what he said, which is that he was going to destroy Usyk, but he didn't manage the whole situation, Usyk was hitting him with clean punches...

 

Honestly, I can't really blame him at all - it doesn't matter what he said he was going to try to do, he simply isn't capable of it.

Usyk has elite skills and a deep resume - Dubois has neither.

Usyk has a solid defence and excellent ring IQ - Dubois walks into jabs.

This was always going to be a mismatch, it needed controversy to even be worth talking about the next morning... Somehow it got it.