Oleksandr Usyk: A Cold Wind Blows From The East-Usyk The Barbarian Will Crush All

Just watched the Usyk / Huck fight.

First off, Huck isn't what he used to be. I think he's at the tail end of his career. He is still a top 10 cruiser though.

With that out of the way: WOW!

Usyk really, really impressed me in that fight.

The dude is like quicksilver, a flame in the wind. Huck struggled to land anything on him while Usyk's wild-looking loopy punches were on point time after time. How do you miss a guy as big as Usyk? Yet Huck was wafting air or bouncing off the gloves all night. I haven't enjoyed watching a boxer in action as much as I enjoyed watching Usyk in this one, for years. It's clear that he was enjoying himself too, judging by the grin that was plastered on his face most of the fight. His footwork is spectacular, his body movement is like a mongoose. His punches marked up Huck's face and his stamina is like a train. So looking forward to see him in action again.

Greenhornet said he was the greatest ever cruiser.

Usyk can't be the greatest ever cruiser because his resume doesn't reflect it yet. Marciano, Dempsey, Holyfield, Louis all fought at cruiser. Their resumes are streets ahead. But after this fight I will say one thing.

Usyk has the POTENTIAL to be the greatest ever cruiser.

 

Yeah, far too much competition for him to be anointed king of the cruisers just yet. He's already thirty, so the window of opportunity is quite tight for him to achieve the sort of resume that might be considered in the same light as any of those other fighters, but potentially if he beats Lebedev, Briedis, Dorticos/Kudryashov, Gassiev, Vlasov and any other beasts that might pop up in the interim, then moves up to heavy and beats a couple of top tenners, there's very little anyone can reasonably say to the contrary.

Topping Evander will be a real hard task though. Usyk will have to beat or be ultra competitive with Joshua for that comparison to become feasible.

 

I view him as a pound for pound talent.

What was his fight night weight?

If he wins the tournament I think he can move up to heavyweight and win a belt. I'd pick him over Wilder right now and Fury too.

 

id like to jump

on his bandwagon

mmm

 

Usyk should have just chosen Bredis from the start instead of Huck. That would would have been hilarious. Today we would all be talking about how he dominated Bredis.

Then again the tourny rules probably prohibited this.

 

Usyk could choose between Huck, Kudryashov or Perez. Gassiev, Briedis and Dorticos were the other top seeds. Wlodarcyk was the mandatory for Gassiev. Hopefully we will get Usyk-Briedis on January/February and that wont be an easy fight for Usyk. I'm looking foward for this one, IMO Usyk-Briedis is the best fighting the best as Kovalev-Ward, Brook-Spence, GGG-Canelo or Rigo-Loma

 

Thanks for clarification! I figured the other top seeds were not options for him along with Wlod. Still would have been great if Usyk dug his heels in and demanded Breidis for his first fight. LOL

 

Marciano, Louis, Dempsey don't count as CW's when you're talking about divisional ratings, they were HW's and most HW's were the same size. Holyfield is top dog at CW and if Usyk were to win the tourney i would place him as the Division's all time #1.

Holyfield - Qawi, De Leon, Ocasio, Mutti, Booze, Parkey, Tillman

Usyk - Gassiev, Briedis, Glowacki, Huck, Mchunu, Hunter

You disagree? You could say Qawi is still the best win but after that you going to argue that Deleon, Ocasio, Mutti, Booze are better than the likes of Briedis, Glowacki, Huck, Mchunu?

 

LOL, that would have been a badassery act

 

what cw do you rate above him if he wins the tourney and becomes undisputed? please don't say haye.

 

i said if he wins the tourney he is the greatest cw. he hasn't done that yet.

 

Holyfield gets overrated because of his passport, and nothing more.