Yes there is. It was 176lbs, then 191lbs, and now it's 201lbs. The WBA made an exception for the Ruiz-Jones fight.
Dubois team is right, there is no way he can outbox Usyk, he should go all in and damage Usyk as much as possible. Dubois can damage body really well. making fight dirty and rough.
No that is not fair nor a reasonable conclusion. 1) He is not much more than he was rehydrated as a CW. 2) If you think that he looks "bloated"-I do not, & others say slim-that would show that he added mostly or all water &/or fat, not muscle-how is that correlated with steroids or HGH? 3) Which allow people to hold more muscle at a lower body fat %. Usyk is neither really heavily muscled, nor highly defined. 4) Maybe you are thinking of "HGH gut". Where human growth hormone, in large quantities, can expand not only bones like the brow ridge & jaw line-exaggerations of what happens to us males at puberty---> but gets the internal organs, at least the stomach, growing grotesquely. There is no indication or look that Usyk has consistent with HGH gut. 5) Anyone "could" be using. You or I also might be axe murderers. But nothing about the evidence, his history of weight gain, or total mass suggests he must be or likely is.
Pictures can be deceptive. Unless Usyk has suddenly gotten old, I suspect he will put on a masterclass of hit and not get hit.
Ya know it’s usyk fight week when people analyse photos of him topless and say he’s put on to much muscle or he’s skimmed down etc. He will probably be exact same weight he has been for the two aj fight’s
He looks great. Ready to knock Dubois out In 9 rounds. Although, Dubois have a punches chance for the first 6 rounds.
Well Fury's best win is over old Waldo. Joshua KO'd the same version of Waldo so in theory Usyk beating Joshua for the belts is The Daddy of the wins so far.
Absolutely not. You have no idea how many top-or what percentage of any boxers-are or were juicing. I have challenged folks maybe dozens of times over the years about this. It is always NO specific evidence, just generalities about advantages you can gain or reasons to do it. This is as illogical as cherry-picking all the deterrents, moral/reputation/possible punishment... And assuming nobody who did not get caught ever used-or maybe all who did actually were false positives or unsuspectingly consumed contaminated foods or supplements! Both are extreme conclusions on each side of the coin-absurdly naïve or ridiculously cynical. Neither evidence or fact based. Those who claim everybody is a dirty rotten liar & cheat produce no evidence. And would not dare say it to the warriors face.
Crawford moves up in weight x 2 and has a KO 100% record at his third weight class which is 12lbs more than his first weight class whilst fighting exclusively out of his home country but no accusations of PED abuse but Usyk moves up to HW coming in about 6-12bs more than his did at CW which is the same weight class in terms of weight as he fought at in the amateurs whilst fighting exclusively in his opponent's backyards and he hasn't even dropped any of his opponents at HW but the haters, many of whom are Belly Boar Meat Fury and Evan Fields fans, keep accusing him of being a PED cheat. It's not like he's ripped with muscle, has popped dirty or been involved or implicated in any kind of PED scandal, has a had some noticeable increase in power, or is a remotely dirty fighter who has ever tried to stack the deck to get any kind of advantage be it fair or unfair. Quite the opposite in fact. He's literally one of the least dirty fighters ever and I've never seen him foul anyone amateur or pro and he's also literally forged a career fighting in his opponent's backyards on a deck stacked against him. In fact, he does so religiously at the drop of a hat when most of your favourites would never agree to do the same near as much as he does and some of the so called greats literally never did it once or categorically refused to do so. Also, he is actually a genuinely lovely guy and a deeply religious man. He actually lives that life instead of pretending to only while the cameras are rolling.
Usyk has often manipulated photos to make him look a certain way to fool people. Like he made it look like was massive vs Joshua the first time. Usyk doesn't need to be big, he doesn't need to KO anyone. Wilder was 215 when he almost KO'd Fury in 2018
Usyk does not at all look like a juicer and neither does his physique which is completely attainable naturally