He's taking on 42 year old Sugar Moe Harris this Saturday. Once a slick and somewhat respectable gatekeeper, Harris is on a 5 year skid going 0-4-1, kayoed thrice in under six minutes each (the latter two in under a pair - and both of those in 2015). This is a step back even from Marrone, whom Dychko easily destroyed last time out. Of his six professional contests so far, half were on televised cards but Dychko remains buried in these dark matches taking on the sort of competitors you'd feed to a late teens or early twenties kid with only moderate amateur experience to facilitate their development as they 'learn on the job'. Dychko, however, is was a longtime elite and 2x Olympian and has already bridged the gap with semipro experience in the WSB. He needs to be televised, and he needs incrementally greater challenges to keep from stagnating and build himself a creditable portfolio if he's seriously committed to his avowed goal in turning pro, a march toward a rematch with Anthony Joshua. At this rate he'll be in his thirties before earning that kind of payday.
Even a KO1 here does absolutely nothing for Dychko, basically. It'd be like "okay, good..." - not anything to crow about.
His upcoming fight is promoted by The Heavyweight Factory. And according to BoxRec, it's their 3rd ever event. Meaning Ivan's handlers just don't have the money and connections. People forget that you need money to get good opponents. He has signed with the wrong people. If they really wanted to grow him as a fighter, at least they would get him televised.
But maybe he didn't have better alternatives... Professional boxing as a business is a very tough game.
They are that amateur hour outfit that Shannon Briggs is or was involved with. They were a small fry gym that decided to start promoting despite nobody having any experience. Dychko shouldn't be mixed up with the likes of them.
Look at his accolades. Guys like him usually have the red carpet rolled out when they enter the pros, and major players lining up to sign them.
Yeah. Honestly, I feel like it's going as well as it could be for someone in his position. It's not like he was a gold medal winner. Mo may be shot to ****, but he's a name. Dychkos path is similar to those like Ortiz beating Bert Cooper at a similar point in his pro career. About as much as you can expect for this stage. He's got to hope he gets the the right fight to break through to the upper echelons later on. If he ever learns how to control distance, the sky is the limit for him; obscene natural skills.
Shot to shit, 42 years old, three years' worth of rust and was KO1ed twice in a row in his most recent outings. Dychko was pretty close to as much a star as you can be in the amateurs without a gold medal. He should be with a big company and getting steadily progressed & receiving broad-stage public exposure more rapidly than he is.
@IntentionalButt, I don't know the reasons, but in 2017 MTK Global was about to sign him (as long as Daniyar Yeleussinov) but something went wrong and MTK pulled out. The Heavyweight Factory looks like a very weak promoting company indeed. I guess Dychko was desperate to sign with them. It seems Yeleussinov had been more patient and was signed by Eddie Hearn this year.
I'm surprised at the ongoing issues because he's complained, publicly, about the level of opponent he's been in with, at least once...can't remember...anyway, follow the money I guess but I can't fathom it.
He’s been pro since 2017 and fought a few weeks ago. His style is still extremely am so busy fights are okay for the time being.
Compared to the other Olympic medalists his record's a joke. At least he gets to work with Holyfield and Bowe regularly. I have a feeling he'll get noticed on a larger scale eventually though, being 6'9" and that fast is a pretty hard combination to miss.
I am bit surprised that he is fighting in the US as a Kazakh boxer but still fighting bums and cans all over the place.
Eh, just because they were all time greats doesn't mean hobnobbing with them in the gym provides any benefit. Neither has any track record of successfully coaching or cultivating talent. No real correlation exists between greatness in the ring and coaching ability; in fact if anything there is usually an inverse correlation (see: Freddie Roach, etc)
