Usyk would destroy Prime Lennox Lewis

Nostalgia bias is far worse. It's not even close. The vast majority of fans regardless if they're modernists or the rose-tinted goggle wearing dinosaur worshiping boxing paleontolgists, actually respect the greats of the past and their achievements, including myself, and aren't absolutely loath to give them credit like those wannabe historians are with modern fighters (not all of them of course), especially fighters who hail from the old enemy the former Soviet Union who they seem to really hold in very low regard indeed.

Yesterday I saw one of those types describe Usyk as ''mediocre''

I rest my case

This forum isn't a fantasy forum and a fight between Usyk vs Lewis can never materialize and none of us can be proven wrong or right.

But what we do know for a fact is an extremely high percentage of those people and the vast majority of fans in general gave Usyk no chance whatsoever of even winning one belt at HW in this era, let alone becoming undisputed and the greatest HW of this generation in his mid to late 30s as the B side, and they were adamant about it.

Like I keep saying, if Usyk were to lose at 39 y/o of course those types and the haters would pounce on it like a pack of hungry hyenas on a fresh wildebeest carcass and cite it as irrefutable proof that Usyk could never have beaten any of their unbeatable gods who lost many times, were knocked out or stopped numerous times, most of whom in their primes or when much or considerably younger than Usyk is now or that he would definitely lose to *insert name of fighter from a previous era.* You know, hold him to a completely different standard, an impossibly high one, that they don't hold any of these superior to him fighters to from previous eras.

Generally, the General forum is a place we get to discuss fights which do not exist in the hypothetical realm and actually can and often do happen and we actually can be proven wrong or right about

 

If you can't get an ill way smaller Mavrovic out of there and you're so out of gas come the final round you have to get on your bike and start running from a malnourished leprechaun, you're not making it to the final bell against Usyk who is much slicker and more difficult to hit and much more mentally draining to fight than Mavrovic and, as we know, Usyk goes to another gear in the championship rounds.