Rico Verhoeven vs Oleksandr Usyk official for WBC Heavyweight Championship — May 23 in Egypt (DAZN)

Sorry to see that you have no sense of humour and can't handle forum banter. I don't dislike you or think you're a bad guy I just don't take you seriously and have already made it clear to you I have no interest in wasting my time debating a ''rabid'' troll whose entire existence on here is to hate on Usyk. If I disliked you you'd know all about it because I wouldn't be addressing you in a playful manner

I have explained in great detail umpteen times why I don't have an issue with Usyk taking the ONE 'soft touch' right at the end stage of his career and all the context regarding why no one should begrudge him of all people given his impeccable conduct, his intrepid approach to fighting the best B2B in their backyards on a deck stacked against him and I don't want to go through it all again. And because he has given us all the fights we wanted in his prime and done everything that anyone could reasonably ask or expect of any fighter to do throughout it and, again, for the umpteenth time it's ONE fight and I want him to face either Kabayel or Fabio or one of his other mandatories if not next after it and if he doesn't I want him to be stripped of his titles he refuses to defend

Yes there is. Fabio was extremely fortunate to get past both Huni and J-Park and he he was being outboxed by both neither of whom are close to Usyk's level or as close to good boxers as him. Fabio could easily be 1-1 vs Frazer Clarke and even in the rematch which he won via KO1 he was fortunate because the ref didn't break the action when Clarke was pushed from behind into the ropes and as soon as he turned back round Fabio cracked him with huge shots which lead to the finish shortly after. He was in no position to defend himself after being pushed out of position and the ref should've broke the action and allowed him to reset

Usyk would batter him and I love Fabio and think he's done amazing to achieve all he has with no amateur career even with the good fortune in his biggest fights. I'm very happy for him that he became a world champion which would not have been the case if he'd shared a ring with Usyk who would outclass him and beat the crap out of him

 

Do you believe yours or even know what mine are? Where did I say anything about Usyk easily outclassing and beating the crap out of Kabayel?

You mustn't have received the memo there are always excuses to discredit Usyk after beating everyone he's beaten at HW you think it will be any different to White Collar boxer Fabio who arguably should be 1-1 vs Frazer Clarke and was the recipient of British stoppages in his 2 biggest fights both of which he was losing or had been outclassed in?

I hope you're gonna tune into Fabio vs Dubois because there's a very good chance Dubois is going to flatline him. I think there's also a very good chance Fabio can do the same to Dubois but I know which one of them is the better more fundamentally sound boxer with the much better resume and I thought Dubois was considered a ''soft touch'' for Usyk by many of the same people who are now banging the drum for Fabio vs Usyk?

Again, I never said Kabayel is a soft touch. I don't even believe Rico is going to be quite as soft a touch as many believe. Just like Ngannou wasn't for Belly and Conor wasn't for Floyd

In fact, I just said the other day I consider Kabayel a dangerous opponent for Usyk. I've been singing his praises since the Chisora fight