He talks about it at 14:31. This is the pattern in his career, though. He loses the first, and goes on to be an ATG. He loses to Beterbiev, and bets him twice. He loses to Russo in the 2008 Olympic games, and beats him in the finals of the 2012 games. It the tenth round of the second Joshua fight, and the ninth of the first Fury fight. He just comes up with whatever he needs. This content is protected
Bernard Hopkins lost his first pro fight. It was supposed to be at light heavyweight, but B-Hop was overweight at 177 pounds.
Hagler got beaten up in a streetfight by dornell wigfall in front of his friends and got his jacket taken. Goes to the gym, learns how to fight, becomes a boxer and beats the guy in his third fight. Later fights him again and destroys him. Gets forcd into the tough philly route cause they ducking him. Loses to willie the worm. Later avenges the loss, loses a bs decision vs watts and then destroys the guy later. Gets robbed vs antefermo with a bs draw after us senate firced to give the guy a shot after 50 fights. Later destroys him. Finally becomes champ in front of a racist brittosh crowd while it rains beer bottles on him, never got his belt in the ring. The boxng world did everything it could to not have this guy as champ and he beat them anyway. Only one he never avenged was the controversial Leonard loss. He was sick of it all adter that and Leonard kept playing games sp he retired and lived his best life. Dude was real life rocky when it came to determination, grit and training though.
Berb beat him in 2012. Usyk didn't win rounds 2 or 3. Olympic Gift. Shawn porter also beat him, where is his redemption there? Point is nobody is unbeatable. Thankfully Usyk doesn't make claim to being unbeatable because he's humble and a good person ..unlike Floyd. Usyk will likely retire unbeaten and be of the very very few who it would've unfair to critisize the 0 on his record given he fought anyone anywhere, almost at any time with almost no advantages, dubious ref was bought but nobody goes through boxing with being at an advantage or disadvantage at some point.
Has Hopkins ever really talked about it? Seems like that loss was a big motivator for him and lead to his disciplined approach to the sport.
I also lost my first amateur fight. Usyk and i are so similar. Although i lost plenty after the first.
In 2006 Usyk had 12 amateur fights losing 5. 2007 he had 4 fights losing 2. 2008 he had 24 fights losing 4. 2009 he had 16 fights losing 1. 2010 he had 14 fights losing 0. 2011 he had 14 fights losing 0. 2012 he had 10 fights losing 0. 2013 he had 6 fights losing 0. Some going that mind. https://boxrec.com/en/box-am/659772
I think there is only a handful of coaches in the entire sport that are good enough to properly assess a fighter. Just like there’s good and bad fighters, same for coaches. Only there’s a lot more coaching equivalents of rolly romeros and joe Joyces than there is usyks and crawfords. Some guys are straight up faking it. Not that it’s an exact science, but there are universal truths in proper training.