Who gave Usyk a tougher fight. Joshua or Chisora

Not sure why so much is made about Usyk having a few tough fights or fights which were allegedly tougher than they actually were

Briedis gave a prime Usyk a very tough fight at Usyk's natural weight CW and every fighter has had tough fights in their primes, let alone when past their prime, and the vast vast majority of them actually lost or lost numerous times in their primes too or many lost via KO or stoppage in their primes

How many of the HW greats were giving away the kind of physical advantages Usyk has routinely been doing at HW, let alone in the mid to late 30s and in their opponent's backyards or on the road? Not many. Some might have done so occasionally or a handful of times but they were also generally fighting HWs their size, smaller or much smaller too. Usyk has never fought anyone his size at HW they're all much or way bigger than him

Ali had many tough fights, is lucky not to have more Ls on his ledger than he does, and in his fight directly before winning his first HW title and one of his greatest ever wins he was lucky the bell came to his rescue after having been dropped like a sack of potatoes by a 22lb lighter Euro level

Duran had many tough fights and lost to fighters well below his level

Wlad was KO'd or TKO'd 3 times in his prime too and has been dropped many times

Lennox Lewis was one punch iced out x 2 in the midst of his prime by smaller or much smaller fighters who were hardly ATGs

He lost to Ray Mercer in many people's eyes too, including mine, a Mercer who lost a few years earlier to a journeyman with 9 losses and fought to a draw against another journeyman the previous year to getting robbed vs Lewis who was 7-9-2

Lewis should have at least 4 losses. He was a very dirty fighter whose signature move was holding his opponent's head in place with his left glove and then cracking them full power with a huge right over the top or a big right uppercut whilst they were blindsided

This is a clear DQ loss. Not only did he crack his vastly overmatched journeyman opponent with not 1, 2 but 3 illegal shots while they were down but he even did his signature hold the head in place with his left glove to set up the sequence of illegal blows on a downed vastly overmatched journeyman opponent

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The list is endless but for some strange reason people hyperfocus on Uysk having a few tough fights or supposedly tougher fights than they actually were in his mid to late 30s vs opponents who had 20-55lbs on him, 2 of whom with much or way longer reach advantages to accompany their huge weight and height advantages

People act like it would be incredibly unfair for Crawford to fight Benavidez even though he only has a half an inch longer reach than Crawford and the 168lb version was like anything from between 5-10lbs heavier than him. The LHW version anything between 10-20lbs max

It's a hell of a lot easier to be dominant and not have tough fights when you're fighting opponents you're much bigger or bigger than, or at worst who are roughly your size, fighting exclusively at home with home refs and judges or at least 2 home judges and 1 neutral one, whom you have a big reach advantage over or always a reach advantage over, and who are featherfists or average punchers at best sans a few times

As opposed to fighting murderous punchers, legit bangers, exclusively in their backyards or on the road, and murderous punching or big punching giants or much naturally bigger men, in their backyards or on the road who hold huge or obscene physical advantages over you