Shawn Porter beat Usyk in the amateurs...

Joshua was KTFO by 5'11" Mihai Nistor. Your point is?

 

I didn't know Adalaide Byrd was judging amateur fights

 

Bump...

 

Funny re-reading a bunch of usyk fans talk about how meaningless ametuer fights are

 

Why would one think that? Porter is a volume swarmer, which lends itself to amateur success more than Usyk's clean pinpoint shots. Usyk's primary advantage over most (larger) opponents is that he's much faster, which probably wouldn't have been the case here. Not really much of a head-scratcher looking at styles...

 

I think theres a difference from judging a fighter on a amatuer fight of 17 & 18 year olds that happend 13 years ago than say judging their peformance 6 years later in the 2012 Olympics or the WBS in 2013.

 

So you`re saying Porter could have beat Joyce as an amateur in 2012?

 

Porter was more physically developed at the time than Usyk who has gone on to gain 40lbs since they fought . Usyk was probably in middle adolescence while Porter had completed his physical development.

 

This means nothing.

Except Porter>>Usyk p4p of course.

 

Usyk also lost to Matvey Korobov. It doesn't mean anything when you consider how small Usyk was back then.

He probably started puberty late, otherwise he wouldn't have gained 50 lbs since then. Porter's body was already more developed and he was physically mature. Despite the similar age, Porter already had a man's body, while Usyk was probably a scrawny teenager.

It's a nice name to have on Porter's resume and he won that fight close (23-20), but it's not relevant when comparing them today.

 

Porter with his style and physical attributes was practically built for the amateurs.

 

Shawn Porter is a natural middleweight and is actually more effective at that weight, but due to the money that was available at 147 he cut down. At middleweight Porter was the faster fighter and was really good at sneaking in shots on the taller fighters.