Usyk vs Holyfield

At CW, Usyk

At heavyweight, Holyfield

 

Need to see Usyk fight Moore.

 

Holyfield.

Who has Usyk beaten? He still has to prove himself.He had a lot of trouble with Bellew where he was behind on points

 

Usyk.

Midget Qawi gave Holyfield all kinds of problems.

 

That midget stops Usyk.

 

I gotta go with the Real Deal .Yep he struggled with Dwight in the first fight but he GOT it . Holy ,a true warrior ,out point s Usyk.

 

In his 7th fight and Qawi was an all time great Light Heavyweight champion.

 

You cant really pick against Holy here, but Usyk would push him to a razor split decision or even a draw, he is that good enough to do that with the best CW of all time.

 

*shrug* It's easy to pick out fights where a fighter looks less than stellar. Which is sort of my point with this. The Blade criticises Usyk for his performance vs Bellew, but, when Usyk turned up the gas, he KO'd Bellew.

Usyk's last 7 fights have all been high level stuff against good opponents and he won them all. I'm going to say it: he's a better pure boxer than Holyfield and he's smart enough not to get sucked into brawls which Holyfield did all the time.

Could Holyfield beat Usyk? Yes, of course. But if I have to take a guess - and this is all we can do, guess - I think Usyk would take it on points.

Would it be easy? Hell, no. I can't think of any fight where somebody beat Holy "easily".

Could my opinion change? Yes. 23 fights in is not a very long career and Usyk might be covering up some horrible flaw like folding to body punching or struggling with some or other technical aspect.

But, so far, so amazing.

 

At Cruiser ?? He beat some fantastic fighters, that's why people are rating him with Holy as tbe at Cruiser, his resume there is excellent, better than anyone's ever at the weight

AT HEAVY YES, but give him a chance, he hasn't had a fight there yet

That's the way he chose to fight Bellew, let him blow himself out then one punch KO his lights out, he could've beat him sooner imo but Bellew is a sneaky hooker, he is/was dangerous mid range, just not sturdy. He obviously could've gone to town on him sooner but played it cool

 

Its down to opinion obviously, its not solid in eithers favour, but Usyk can move excellently, and he uses it here to negate Holy when he needs to..Their Cruiser weights when they fought there are different also

 

Footwork and angles keeps the much shorter man lunging, he could be pebble dashed at times imo