Tony bellew

I believe Every belt he won was vacant English commonwealth world title so that tells you a lot about his chances as well.

 

Slight correction, he won a vacant WBC belt against a guy who never held one himself.

 

As you say he has only fought one world class elite fighter at CW or HW, and he was beaten up and stopped in 6 lopsided rounds.

Off the back of beating a crippled David Haye twice, we are meant to believe that he is now “world class”.

His other best win Makabu where he won the CW WBC title, has disappeared back to Africa never to be seen of or heard of again.

In reality he is an easy W for Usyk prior to him moving up to HW.

 

The narrative has come from Sky Sports/Matchroom and their cult push the message.

 

His punch resistance had gone Haye's, too long out even if he was healthy, not taking shots regular in sparring/fighting. I never thought his chin was an issue when he was prime, he always seemed to ride the punches he was caught with as well, taking the sting out of the majority. With Bellew I can give him a pass considering the state of him. That performance from Bellew imo is gonna be shown for what it is when Usyk gets hold of him, hes gonna be dismantled, hit everywhere possible that's legal ! I hope Usyk is coming to make a statement, put Bellew in his place

 

not to mention Haye hadn't had a proper fight for like 4 and a half years, was told to retire as his shoulder was so messed up, and had only recently had his spine reconstructed

 

You just have to rewatch the Brudov fight and the seventh and eight rounds in particular to understand that Bellew has no chance against Usyk.

 

Watched that back two nights ago. I'm making a little comparison video for this fight, I'll upload it on Friday.

Oh, listen to what Jim Watt and Adam Smith say about 10-15 seconds before Brudov hurts Bellew. Its something along the lines of - this is the best I've ever seen him, then 10 seconds later he walks on to a punch and is all over the place, brilliant example of the 'commentators curse'!

 

Hey man could you tag me in this when you make it? I'd be keen to watch. Thank you

 

He blew away two Gary Delaney type opponents in the first round before facing Bellew.. Younger David Haye couldn't to that to the real Gary Delaney.

How about the time he was meant to have leathered Deontay Wilder in sparing? So he could clean the HW champs clock in the Hayemaker gym , but couldn't beat Tony Bellew in two attempts?
Maybe Tony Balloo was just to good for David Haye.

 

Too long out?? He had two fights the year before , same as Bellew

 

There were 5 years between him "leathering" Wilder and the Haye/Bellew fights.