WIlder or Loma FOTY?

...Yes it is. Lmao I don't know why I thought that **** was happening at the end of December.

 

If anyone other than Oleksandr Usyk wins fighter of the year im gonna start following poker. Wilder or Loma? I mean seriously, its a one horse race where Usyk wins 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

 

If Wilder defeats Fury, I'd say you can feasibly consider him FOTY. Fury/Ortiz vs Briedis/Gassiev.

As it stands though, Usyk is ahead of everybody.

 

Beating a 39 year old contender with a medical condition and Fury off a 3 year lay off hardly compares to 3 fights, beating 2 undefeated world champions, unifying the whole cruiserweight division, winning the Muhammad Ali trophy, and defeating the former WBC champion in recess defending his unified championship, with 3 fights on foreign soil, 3 different trainers in each fight, and after only 16 fights. Give Wilder a ribbon for most improved and starting to attempt to do what every other champion already does, and what he should have been doing 5 years prior.

 

Usyk and it's beyond question for me. Whoever considers Deontay ****ing Wilder needs their head looking at and is just outright disrespectful to the other contenders such as Inoue, Loma, Crawford, Garcia, Canelo, Warrington if he beats Frampton has more of a stake ffs!!!

Wilder has beaten a middle aged, failed Cuban amateur who's best wins are Scuba Scott and Bryant Jennings and let's not forget he was barely passed medically fit at the time they fought. Now Wilders fighting a sprouting couch potato who's coming off a 2 1/2 year after party. Wilder FOTY, LMFAO...!!!!!

 

You missed Bellew off Usyks, he fought three times this year. He's also cleaned out Cruiserweight in doing so, ranked number 1 Cruiserweight, won Wbss and is in contention for P4P number 1 ending the year and Goat Cruiserweight fully unifying the division in his 15 th Pro fight. You can argue Breidis, Gassiev and Bellew were at their respective peaks arguably all coming from the back of their career best wins.

Wilder has had a decent year but you have to take into account that Ortiz near failed a medical going into the bout and looked poor in his bouts previous against domestic/fringe level fighters and Fury being on a two plus year hiatus and not looking too good in his return bouts. Wilder still sits no2 in his division matter less of the result.

 

Only if they are casuals Usyk's wins this year were all pretty high profile.

Breidis fight got a lot of attention because it was so competitive. I must admit I didn't watch it live but after I heard it was so competitive which I didn't expect so I watched it a few days later.

Gassiev was the WBSS final and had some controversy due to delays on agreeing the fight. Plenty of people were on here during the fight, discussing the outcome.

Bellew, PPV event in the UK, maybe if are not British it was a fight you might of missed but as a Brit it was a high profile fight for me. Did 600K PPV buys so clearly it did very well.

For me it's clearly Uysk at the moment by a mile, unifying cruiserweight division, first PPV success with Bellew, he's had an outstanding year.

Loma in 2nd place for me beating Rigo and going up to beat Linares.

Wilder beating Ortiz and Fury would be a fantastic year for Wilder and Joshua too with unifying vs Parker and then beating Povetkin had a pretty damn good year but fact is they didn't beat the one guy that mattered in their division and that's each other. Can't give them fighter of the year until that beat the best guy out there.

 

Beating an old man with high blood pressure and heart problems and a rusty inactive Fury isn't a patch on what Usyk has done this year.

 

Wilder won't be the fighter of the year in his own division, let alone the whole thing. People seem to forget AJ has beaten Povetkin (And after seeing Povetkin in that fight, it was obviously a tough fight) and Parker for one more belt, in the same year. That is far better than beating Fury and an old man. If Wilder beats Fury it'll be because Fury is finished and not the same fighter anymore.

And he's not even in the fighter of the year conversation anyways. Usyk is HANDS DOWN the fighter of the year. Nobody comes close. Breidis, Gassiev and Bellew. Who else in their division can say they fought the best 3 fighters in the division this year? Nobody can, apart from Usyk. He couldn't have fought any better opposition at cruiserweight than those 3.

 

any boxing fan would be able to do that

 

Yeah I guess so.

 

Asking to choose fight of the year between two bouts that haven't happened yet? I'll probably just wait until they've actually taken place...

 

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