Usyk to fight Glowacki for cw title in few months time!!!

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  1. Capt

    Capt Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Honestly this probably gets aired on PBC, don't think this even makes an HBO undercard. Great fight though.
     
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  2. PolishNavy

    PolishNavy Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Watched Usyk on You Tube and he is very impressive. Looks like the Poles will be without a belt for awhile unless Szpilka or Glowacki pull off an upset. Glowacki is pretty tough so it should be entertaining but I favor Usyk here.
     
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  3. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    HBO will have a ton of interest they mentioned Huck-Glowacki on their year end Fight Game as a FOTY candidate and he made the Gatti List and you know that K2 has probably been pushing Usyk hard behind the scenes, HBO appears to finally be broadening their horizons a little, they've invested in the Flyweights and are planning on bringing Inoue in, so I could see this happening.
     
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  4. Gannicus

    Gannicus 2014 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    :patsch What a gutter post.

    Lomachenko and Usyk were busy being ATG's and in Loma's case GOAT in the amateurs - which is a different form of boxing and they achieved levels that the names you mentioned, couldn't.
    Paper title was against the current lineal featherweight champ, Russell Jr.
     
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  5. Capt

    Capt Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ya but HBO knows the CW division is not very popular and Usyk is not well known here outside the diehards. I actually would be a bit stunned if this ends up on HBO, though I could be wrong.
     
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  6. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    I think there would be universal applause for what he's doing if he hadn't thrown in that tidbit about Evander Holyfield. That's sort of how I feel about Floyd Mayweather. He's a pretty good boxer, but maybe he shouldn't compare himself to Ray Robinson. If you make the comparison, in your favor, you can expect people to make the same comparison and show it to your disfavor. I know, because I'm the Shakespeare of forum posters.
     
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  7. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Glowacki really impressed me against Huck. He's a damned good fighter. However, Usyk is a special one when he's firing on all cylinders.
     
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  8. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    I could be wrong too, but I hope I'm not, HBO knows Haymon is making a play at popularizing Cruiserweight, so they may want to take the play away a little, or at least if I were running HBO that's what I would be doing.
     
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  9. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Holyfield was unified heavyweight champ by Usyk's age.
     
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  10. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    I wouldn't. When a member of your stable is a showcase fighter for the network, it's easier to get other fighters from your stable on the air. K2's given HBO a bargain with Golovkin, so that'll make HBO more likely to show Usyk now that he's fighting for a title....especially if K2 pitches that Usyk will fight at Heavy in the future.
     
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  11. Hercegovac

    Hercegovac Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Holyfield is an ATG, no one is comparing Usyk to him

    Also we're comparing completely different sporting cultures. For a long time the former soviet countries couldn't turn pro because it wasn't allowed under communism, so Olympic achievement was the pinnacle of the sport, and in many ways it still is. So for you to just brush off Loma's and Usyk's amateur careers is really ignorant on your part.

    That's why so many of these ex soviet fighters turn pro so late, they value their amateur and Olympic achievements too much. A lot of the guys that do turn pro from over there, do so because they weren't good enough or weren't selected to the team. Kovalev admits the only reason he became a pro is because he was angry Beterbiev took his place on the Olympic team, otherwise who knows if he'd ever even become pro
     
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  12. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    has he always campaigned at cruiser as a pro or was a light heavy? thought he was on a collision course with Kova?
     
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  13. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    if only i weren't so lazy
     
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  14. Rumple

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    :ibutt:ibutt:ibutt WAR!! great match up.
     
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  15. Hercegovac

    Hercegovac Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yup, he was always a cw, maybe your thinking of Beterbiev
     
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