Usyk vs Daddy Bowe

Usyk is 36 going on 37 now, an age when most fighters are past their best or completely washed up, especially clean ones who don't artificially enhance themselves or extend their careers with PEDs like many of your greats, and he has been very inactive only fighting five times in five years.

Bowe was supposedly completely washed up at 29 for goodness sake. The fact he got battered and abused by Golota with ease who was one of the few skilled big men and big punching big men he fought and the only EE fighter from the Soviet school he ever fought, a school he lost to numerous times in the amateurs, including by stoppage IIRC, literally had nothing to do with anything whatsoever Golota brought to the dance at all

Stick a 29 y/o razor-sharp reflexes and reaction times Usyk in there with him and he'd be swinging and missing like a big baffoon, looking unsure of himself and getting taken to slick school like the rest of these big behemoths.

 

Sorry but I'm not buying this. I'm not saying Bowe wasn't good, He was, The problem is not with us Usyk fans it's with all of these fans who reflexively dismiss the chances of certain types of fighters or fighters from certain parts of the world against certain other types of fighters from other parts of the world in these hypothetical match ups and this is an extremely common theme with many fans.

They get seriously bent out of shape at the mere suggestion that Usyk or others like him could ever possibly beat one of their American gods or greats from yesteryear and oftentimes they view everything from the past through the lens of rose-coloured glasses and everything of today through the lens of a microscope. Hence why people like me have to come along and make a case for Usyk because these guys usually won't be remotely fair.

90 or whatever percent it was were so utterly sure AJ was going to beat Usyk and that Usyk stood no chance against these SHW behemoths but I told you all he could and would cause them nightmares with his speed, movement, wonderful skills, slickness, footwork, ring IQ, crazy engine, work rate and I also told you he was super tough and blessed with the iron chin to take their power when they were able to catch him. Most of you all thought he would fold as soon as they landed clean and look at how wrong so many of you got it. Badly wrong.

Fact is Bowe was supposedly washed up at 29 y/o, which ever so conveniently coincided with him getting his ass spanked royally by Golota who was dominating him prior to managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Does Golota deserve no credit for that? Did nothing he bring to the dance have anything to do with the fact he was able to do that to Bowe? It was all due to what the ''washed up'' over night Bowe didn't or was unable to do, right? I'm sure if the roles were reversed we'd be seeing a very different take for many about that.

So Bowe was washed up overnight at 29 y/o but Usyk who didn't even turn pro until he was almost 27 y/o is still smack bang in the midst of his prime aged 36-37 despite the fact when you watch footage of him as a 26 y/o there's a stark contrast to how he looks now as has for quite a while and you guys should know I've been saying this for a long time on here.

You watch him in the WSB and he looks significantly faster, sharper, more nimble, fluid, with better head movement, accuracy and mongoose-like reflexes and reaction times. There has even been a decline from AJ I to AJ II, and from AJ II to Dubois.

I said long ago that the WSB Usyk would cause these big behemoths absolute nightmares, much more so than this version who has still caused them nightmares despite having lost a few steps and slowing down.

And he would cause Bowe nightmares with all his aforementioned attributes because that's exactly what they do against much bigger, slower and more lumbering slower-footed giants. How many slick southpaws did Bowe face? How many much quicker and agile than him? Or would he magically transform into a fleet footed giant that would have no problems landing at will against the much faster slick boxer?

And Usyk has been very inactive only fighting five times in five years which plays a factor too