Usyk Should Be Criticized For Fighting Wilder

As said, I don't like the fight and I especially don't like the fact, assuming it actually happens that is, that Usyk is throwing The Dosser a lifeline and giving him an opportunity which he categorically doesn't deserve. But by the same token Usyk is about to turn 39 y/o is the oldest undisputed HW champion ever (and obviously I don't mean he's still undisputed I'm talking about in a historical sense), the 2nd oldest unified HW champ ever, and the 5th oldest HW champion ever, and will jump up to the 4th oldest one a week past his 39th birthday next month, and has achieved everything there is to achieve and has been fighting the top guys and tough comp pretty much exclusively B2B sans 1 or 2 instances ever since moving up to the world level almost a decade ago.

And bearing all that in mind, his exemplary conduct in and out of the ring, and his extremely commendable and rare approach to taking on the best on a deck stacked against time and time ago, and how few soft or softer touches had, and the fact he vacated his belt for what was his impending mandatory, I couldn't given about him having a money fight and a soft touch for the first time in his career as a champ and only his 2nd one in a decade since moving up to the world level.

His age, stage of his career, and everything he has accomplished, and his track record, in complete contrast to the vast majority of fellow legends, greats, and world champions, his track record for not taking soft touches is paramount here.

Almost all these other greats and champs they're comparing him to who were more or much more active than him when taking on soft touches were generally much younger and in their primes not 39 y./o in the twilight of their careers after having completed boxing numerous times over on a deck stacked against them

His 2nd weakest opponent in all that time is a 40lb heavier Chisora for goodness sake who is still a handful even 5 years later at about to turn 42 y/o at the end of the month.

Louis, Holmes, Wlad, Vitali, Ali, Belly to name a few of countless champs and greats fought many soft touches when they were young and in their primes in addition to doing so when they they were past prime but, as I have said many times, the rules change when it comes to Usyk and the haters and those who have been spoilt by his exemplary conduct in and out of the ring in a career of taking on the best and tough opponents pretty much B2B are suffering from temporary amnesia about that and other fighters, including the greatest ones ever who they claim he could never beat, are, again, holding him to a standard they don't hold any other fighter in history to.

And his actualy only soft touch in his entire career since moving up to the world level Witherspoon was a extremely late notice sub who stepped in the week of the fight after Usyk's original opponent popped dirty and that was Usyk's official HW debut in an era when HWs are bigger than ever before

It's a pit stop against a fighter he has always wanted to fight and who is love him or hate him - and we all know which side of the fence I stand on in that regard (I will **** on him and discredit him every chance I get) is the third best HW and biggest name of Usyk's generation.

If Usyk is planning on facing The Dosser level opponents from here on until retirement without vacating the belts it would be a different story but as far as we know it's just one fight, assuming it even happens that is

 

Jesus wept! Dubois I was not a soft touch. He might the only fighter Usyk has fought during his HW reign who wasn't a reigning champ or ranked 1, 2 or 3 in the division at the time when he first fought him but he was his mandatory challenger and he was a devastatingly powerful KO artist with a 19-1 record whose sole loss was to an undefeated Big Joe Joyce on a serious eye injury in an extremely competitive fight where he was ahead on 2 of the judge's cards.
I don't care who he'd beaten heading into that fight he was much bigger than Usyk and extremely dangerous, so much so that many of those now trying to discredit him were the exact same people claiming Dubois was robbed of a KO win in that fight

Dubois of the first fight is practically SRR in comparison to many of the soft touches so many other legends, greats and world champions fought

The iron-jawed Big Joe Joyce who has no issue willingly wading in face first all night to the bombs of everyone else he's fought morphed into a 260lb Virgil Hill vs Dubois ie. a jab merchant slickster and was extremely wary of getting hit by Dubois' power. When have we ever seen him do that? The reason why he did so is because he'd sparred him, numerous times IIRC, and felt that devastating power first hand