Why not Usyk-Parker and Dubois-Chisora at Wembley?

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  1. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Apparently, the IBF is about to order Dubois-Chisora next. I say perfect! Frees up Usyk to fight Parker.

    Let's have both fights on a card at Wembley.

    I know, we would rather see Dubois-Kabayel, but I am talking reality, here. This is a possible way we can get Usyk-Parker.
     
  2. MrPook

    MrPook Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I will take that. Dubois said he wants to fight in June at Wembley I believe.
     
  3. Ike

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    Good card, I would have preferred Dubois - Kabayel but Chisora is the official IBF challenger, it's right that he faces Dubois.
     
  4. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold Hype Jobs will be hype jobs until proven so. Full Member

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    Would be a great card and last fight for Chisora against Dubois.

    Chisora will be full of confidence after dominating Wallin - but Dubois is a different animal, he is a solid boxer with massive power unlike Wallin. Dubois has experience against swarmers in Joyce and Miller - Dubois really should be beating Chisora. Lets face it - I do like Chisora he's got a fun aggressive style, he's not a media robot and boxing will be duller without him but Chisora has literally lost over ten fights.

    It will be interesting to see if Dubois tries to outbox or brawl with Chisora, as Dubois's jab will easily land on Chisora's face on a consistent basis and the jab of Dubois alone is incredibly powerful. Its not a very skilled jab, if your jab is more technical than Dubois - you can outjab him as we've seen before with Joyce and Usyk but Dubois's jab is just that powerful though. What we know is that Chisora will come to fight, he will give this last fight everything - he will leave it all in the ring and it will be a tough's night work for Dubois but I think Dubois just has too much power for Chisora and is also too versatile in the sense he is capable of outboxing and outbrawling Chisora.

    Dubois 8-9th round KO after a very good fight. He just is too powerful and versatile for Chisora IMO, but Chisora can defo hurt Dubois as Dubois's chin isn't anything crazy and his defence is also suspect.

    As for Usyk V Parker - Usyk on points winning every round bar one or two. Usyk is too good of a boxer for Parker.
     
  5. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold Hype Jobs will be hype jobs until proven so. Full Member

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    If Parker, Usyk and Dubois are all tied up - I wonder what Kabayel will do next? Off the top of my head possibly AJ or Fury, Whyte? Or winner of Joyce/Hrgovic? Kabayel V Miller would be a very tasty stylistic match-up.
     
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  6. DaRealJT

    DaRealJT Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Good idea, neither fight alone could headline Wembley but both together could.
     
  7. Rick’s Piano

    Rick’s Piano New Member Full Member

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    At this point, this would probably be the best possible outcome.
     
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  8. BubblesUK

    BubblesUK Doesn't buy hypejobs Full Member

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    The main reason "why not" is quite simple:
    Unifications take precedence over mandatories.

    Which basically means Dubois has first pick of organising a fight with Usyk.

    If that doesn't happen, then maybe all this is potentially possible...
     
  9. BubblesUK

    BubblesUK Doesn't buy hypejobs Full Member

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    I love the presumption that Kabayel is desperate for good fights - before Zhang he hadn't had a solid opponent in 7-8 years (back to Chisora)... A couple of hypejobs aside, he'd been fighting the kind of bums row even Wilder (as WBC champ) would've been utterly ashamed of.

    Hopefully he'll get a decent fight made and we'll be able to see more of what he's made of - I certainly wouldn't assume it's a sure thing, though.
     
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  10. mrbigshot

    mrbigshot Active Member Full Member

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    Thats the road it goes . We need dubois vs kabayel or vs parker first and then the winner of this for unification vs usyk .

    If this will not happen and usyk fights dubois straight away it becomes obvious somebody is ducking . Then we also know why dubois got ill last second - to eliminate the risk he looses against parker and parker gets the belt .
     
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  11. BubblesUK

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    We'd like to see that, sure (and Parker has a FAR bigger claim than Kabayel - not only is he way more proven but he had the match with Dubois set up already only for DDD to pull out), but then.... Who does Usyk fight in the meantime?

    Possibly - from Dubois' point of view if his choice is between Usyk and Parker we know who he's going to go for first (regardless of any moral requirement to fight Parker and regardless of why he pulled out of the Parker fight.

    IF Dubois could've fought Parker and CHOSE not to, that's a damning indictment of his courage and self-belief...


    Regardless, Dubois basically holds the choices - he can chase the Usyk fight or choose to take on Chisora - it's not impossible that he decides to fight Chisora and let Usyk age a bit more before trying again (that could really backfire though if Usyk retires, or Chisora knocks him over!)
     
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  12. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Pretty sure that is not the case withe the IBF, but not 100%. It is with the WBO.
     
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  13. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Kabayel is the WBC interim champion and Parker is the WBO interim champion. Mandatory status shouldn't matter in the slightest in the current environment.
     
  14. JackSilver

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    find it hard to believe that these organisations that are always looking out for themselves would even want to have their champs unify with other organisations let alone have a official ruling about it when they could have them fight only their own challengers an keep the sanctioning fee for themselves . if they had this enforceable ruling you would’ve thought every division will have undisputed champs
     
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  15. Dynamicpuncher

    Dynamicpuncher Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I don't want to see Chisora/Dubois I'd rather see a younger upcoming contender get a shot at the title like Kabayel.

    Chisora getting a shot just stalls the division he's on his way out and is from a previous era. Let's get the new current Heavyweights in the mix so we can start looking forward to a new era.
     
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