Reality Check Time! Oleksandr Usyk is Still The P4P Number One Fighter On The Planet. This Is Why...

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  1. theanatolian

    theanatolian Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    @ellerbe is severely ******ed. He doesn't give a **** about Usyk. He's just a butthurt PBC cheerleader who's mad at Crawford for annihilating Spence exposing the PBC welterweight scene.
     
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  2. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Your logic doesn't hold up :lol:

    Again, Ali was dropped heavily by a 22lb lighter Bivol sized Euro level and saved from a KO loss by the bell and corner shenanigans but in his next fight he stopped Sonny Liston. How you explain? :lol:

    Joe Louis was being outboxed and was hurt badly by a 30lb lighter LHW Conn who took up the sport 7 years earlier and who weighed the same as Crawford did for his 154 debut

    Here's CW and HW world champ David Haye getting dropped heavily and almost KO'd by a SMW journeyman who was 0-4-1 in his last 5, was 21-6-1 (7 KOs) at the time, and sports an overall KO 30% now.

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    Lolenga Mock >>Wlad, right?
     
  3. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    :lol: I don't even think some of them are aware of what they're doing they're just brainwashed. Just look at how few gave a prime Usyk a chance of even winning a single belt at HW, let alone a past prime version becoming undisputed at HW winning and unifying all those belts in his opponent's backyards or on the road and becoming the dominant HW champion of the era and the oldest ever undisputed HW champ. He possessed every skill, attribute, and intangible to do so but they could not envisage it happening. Even worse, we actually had footage of him schooling multiple SHWs with said skills, attributes, and intangibles in the WSB but still they didn't believe and when he proved them all badly wrong they predictably reached for the good old ''weak era'' copium
     
  4. Cojimar 1946

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    Sure it does. Unlike the examples with Haye and Ali the men in question were all in their primes at cruiserweight. Cunningham wasn't green or pre prime when he failed to drop all those guys at cruiserweight and neither was Lerena. Fury, Joshua, Dubois were not green or pre prime during the fights in question. If I had brought up the first McDermott fight that would be more comparable to the examples you cited.

    Moreover there is the issue of common sense. If Fury Joshua and the like are performing badly by cruiserweight standards than a number of cruiserweights could potentially beat them. No reason to think Opetaia couldn't improve on Lerena and Cunningham
     
  5. Serge

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    Ali literally scored one of his greatest wins in his very next fight and it was against one of the biggest punchers in HW boxing history and arguably the most intimidating HW ever.

    A 185lb, 22lb lighter Euro level literally dropped Ali like a sack of potatoes in his previous fight

    Big bad bear Liston couldn't drop Ali in his next fight but the way lighter Euro level Cooper dropped him like he'd been hit in the face with a cannonball and almost knocked him out


    Louis was smack bang in the midst of his prime when he fought the way smaller Conn

    Haye was a world amateur silver medalist and regardless of how you try to spin it getting dropped heavily and very nearly KO'd by a SMW journeyman with a KO 30% who was 0-4-1 in their last 5 is ''embarrassing''

    Cunningham was literally the first world champion and world level guy Belly ever fought and he didn't even have his trainer in his corner with him because he was denied entry into the US at the last minute. Belly improved after that fight and became more durable too

    Cunningham might not have been a big puncher but if you don't think this shot is a big shot I don't know what to say. Because of Belly's upright stance, size and lapse in concentration, hands down by his sides, he was able to land the shot of his life. That was a hell of shot and it had every ounce of Cunningham's power behind it.

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    Belly should never have beaten Wlad and The Dosser x 2 (3 in reality) by that logic, both of whom are 2 of the most fearsome punchers in HW boxing history and were walking KO machines

    Lerena weighed 230lbs vs Dubois and as I warned at the time was powerfully built, explosive and could punch and as I've explained before at least 2 of the KDs Dubois suffered against him were due to him voluntarily taking a knee due to the torn ACL he suffered during the first one

    Maybe some other CWs could've beaten AJ, Belly, Dubois but we also know for a fact how few gave Usyk a chance of even winning one belt at HW