His whole new fanbase and promotion was based on having a fake rivalry with David Haye. Him knocking out a permanently injured man who had been retired for five years prior on two PPV Shows was the bedrock of his boxing career. Why shouldn’t i dislike him ? His wife is a piece of cheap trash who was filmed abusing aman at the 02 doing his job as a minimum wage worker. When he finally took on two fighters who were HEALTHY and at their PRIME, he got banged out swiftly. Usyk and Stevenson Another Matchroom/Sky Hype Job. Proud to say I didn’t buy any of his PPV’s and have streamed all of them from the comfort of my sofa. It won’t be long before we hear the usual PTSD he is suffering from and the “attempted suicide” attempts. Let’s await the next Matchroom/Sky Hype Job who will be groomed to replace him.
Bellew was terrific in the fight. Showed outstanding boxing ability. He lost to a guy who will go down as an all time great.
Bellew did well. Was hard to hit, landed some good shots in the opening 3. As many have said, he could not maintain the work-rate and Usyk tired him out. Definitely underrated over the course of his career and is a smart fighter. The judges having him ahead/level was scandalous for me. Won rounds 1+2, 3 could have gone either way. I thought Usyk hurt him regularly. Bellew has done extremely well, would have been nice to see him fight more of the good cruiserweights to see exactly how good he was. I'm still not entirely sure how good he is. Definitely world class/fringe world class.
In total agreement with you. Particularly with the Usyk hurting him, seemed most clean left hands from Usyk bothered Bellew. I gave Tony the first 3 but anything after that is quite generous in my mind.
It's hard to rank bellew as world class when all his titles have been vacant, and he has never beat a world level opponent.