Oleksandr Usyk in the 70s

I started the Time Warp theme, I love it.

 

Usyk yells, I Want Frazier, I Want Frazier.

 

He would dominate the division without too much difficulty no one would be able to beat him imo, too big, skillful and tough while having a very good gas tank. Keep in mind for the era he would have a size advantage over pretty much everyone and for someone who's used to constantly fighting bigger dudes I think that would be a huge advantage.

 

I was not even a thought in 1954.

 

Honestly I could see Usyk being the type of opponent that George Foreman’s people would want to stay away from. He had both the skills and tools that could potentially be a nightmare for Foreman.

 

But in his armor, he would have had to possess massive stamina and an iron George Chuvalo like chin to survive and possibly beat prime George Foreman.

 

And/but...he is a lefty. He'd have a lot of problems getting fights. IF he could entice contenders into the ring, he'd have a huge advantage with his southpaw stance that most had never encountered, but the problem would be getting opponents to fight him. Ali did fight two lefties, Mildenberger and Dunn, but neither of them was in Usyk's class.

I don't know where Usyk's 70s opponents could find decent southpaw sparring (Vic Brown, Dunn, Mildenberger?) to get ready for him. Another point in Usyk's favor is that he'd see nothing but orthodox fighters in the gym and as opponents. The 70s should be a nice time for a 6-3, 220 pound athletic, highly skilled, well conditioned, southpaw to be fighting... unless everybody refused to fight him.

 

That’s a good point. A lot of trainers and managers would have been afraid of him

 

He'd beat him Foreman would not be able to bully him like he did other fighters in that era

 

I have to laugh at someone claiming Usyk would dominate an entire era based on having 5 Heavyweight fights. Who was noticeably pushed in a competitive fight by a faded fringe contender Chisora, and dropped like a sack of potatoes sucking air on a "borderline shot" by a Heavyweight not ranked in the top 10 in Dubois.

But yeah lets go from that to the extreme of dominating the best Heavyweights of all time based on that small evidence amazing logic.