Will you root for Usyk or Gassiev?

Usyk has about as much hype as Abraham had entering the SMW tournament. Not sure if Gassiev will "expose" him cause he still has things to learn, but he'll sure as hell make Usyk look human, and a good chance he'll make him look like a human with a pro boxing loss. Rooting for the underdog as always.

 

Usyk bounces in and out. He pushes his L and seems to be a bit mechanical to me.

Gassiev is like a Holyfield GGG clone.
He drowns his opponents that try to keep him off set, and counters so friggin awesome when his opponents take it inside.
His counter uppercuts are something to behold.

 

I'm not too fussed but I think Usyk can and will move to HW and I could (and would like to) see him beating all but perhaps Joshua (certainly I think he'd have a great chance against Hybrid). Gassiev is very young and has much more time. If i'm pushed i'd prefer an Usyk win.

 

Let's be honest lebedev is iron chinned and iron willed, and dorticos isn't as Cuban as he makes out.

 

After dorticos showing against gassiev i question if he even is Cuban ,maybe he is from the Dominican republic Guillermo Jones had a decent chin

 

Yeh the roided beast had a good chin. I'd say dorticos has probably got a good bit of Irish blood in him.

 

Ya, defiantly not cuban.
Id say the Cuban coaches in the amateur programme must had thought they found the terminator, when they saw a young dorticos eating weak jabs and not collapsing like he had a stroke

 

Andre Ward? Isn't he retired? I've apparently missed a lot in my week vaca from the board

 

Eddie Hearn admitted Ward wanted Buglioni & Johnson, and that for a time before his retirement he was in talks about it. You can watch it for yourself in one of his IFL interviews.