What are the chances Usyk ditches IBF belt, making Wilder-Hrgovic fight for it?

Of those I think Wilder-Sanchez is by far the most likely to happen. Both PBC and the Cuban connection with Ortiz.

I wonder about Sanchez's chin and temperament. He's had at least two KD's against him, official or otherwise and committed serious infractions in two fights (pushing an opponent out of the ring in response to excessive holding by a journeyman and hitting Ajagba while he's down). He's got respectable pop but he's not a big puncher. He's also not a big heavyweight; average height and only 201 lbs back in May 2018. It's very likely that Sanchez's primary gameplan (or at least a significant component of it) will be to cautiously outbox Wilder over 12 rounds which gives Wilder lots of time and space, ample opportunity to land the right hand, which he always manages to make a home for sooner or later in a 12 round fight.

 

He walks in at around 220 (when he needs to move) to 240+lbs in recent fights, likely with some help.

The Ajagba KD/slip aside, what is the other time he was supposedly down?

 

This guy was ruled to have put him down according to Boxrec: https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/587882

 

Trouble now is I honestly believe all these sanctioning bodies want a slice of this big rumoured Saudi event so not only is the Heavyweight division as good as stagnant these sanctioning bodies are also sitting on there hands waiting to see what announcement the Saudis make before committing themselves to anything .

 

Considering how Usyk wanted to go the fast lane with his poor activity, it isn't unlikely because he will be soon mandated an IBF defense, then others... So who knows, he may as well simply lose a fight. The sanctioning bodies did enough for him for two years.

Hrgovic is a better boxer than Wilder, but in a technical aspect. He isn't faster, he tires quickly and tends to be lethargic at moments. So if Zhang can hurt him, Wilder can definitely knock him out. It will be a good fight, one I doubt we'll see.

 

It was your guy who kept ducking him and who will fight a non-boxer instead. Fury fans have the bloody cheek to talk about Usyk's inactivity while it was Fury who led him down the garden path for months wasting Usyk's time. It is also Fury who in two years will have fought one mandatory, one 40-year-old, 12-losses has-been who he'd comfortably beat already almost a decade ago, plus a non boxer.

 

This is the truth, and only verifies what a ducker Fury has been. Usyk and previously AJ wanted to fight Fury for the belt but his governing body has allowed him to keep the belt out of the true champion's grasp. Now he fights Ngannou. Usyk is actually the undisputed HW champion.