He's probably walking at 94-5 kg right now. He can easily add 10 kg in a year and be a competitive HW. It doesn't have to be all muscle. He's taller and has a longer reach than Povetkin, for example, and about the same as Haye, Whyte, Parker, Ortiz.
He'll get walked down and pummeled at HW. Needs to be much more elusive to bridge the gap in power and strength.
He is arguably the best cruiserweight since Holyfield, and Holyfield didn't do half bad on heavyweights despite fighting bigger boxers.
Holyfield was made of granite with a chin that is out of this world and a far superior boxer, he also had a build that carried mass across divisions easily. Granted, your point that even with Holyfield being an all-timer fighting other all-timers, it's a different playing field, but you still have to respect the power of these modern 230lb+ HW's.
I felt he was up by a point too. Usyk has control from the 4th onwards.
There's nothing wrong with the majority of what you've said, but we have weight divisions for a reason, and the reducer for all of his skill and technique can, and very probably would, come by way of a single exchange, and from there, having felt power he knows he cannot get hit by under any circumstances, you will have a fighter who either goes out on his shield, or has to adopt a complete fleeing tactic whilst hoping he can make it through twelve rounds of boxing some distance outside his weight remit.
Usyk may be a good fit because right now he’s a fairly small heavyweight struggling to lose those last few pounds getting down to Cruiserweight. There’s a fairly decent amount of “smaller” men that have gone and had decent success at Heavyweight.
You're pretty much asking him to fight the perfect fight every time out to bridge the gap; we're not even sure if Fury, a legitimate heavyweight, can do that in his upcoming contest with Wilder. There's also, from the outset, the need for Usyk to make these guys respect him, and not his movement and ability. They will gladly brawl with him and make things as ugly as possible because it favours them greatly.
You're getting too hung up on the "3 stone" exaggeration.
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I hadn't seen much of him before and i felt a bit underwhelmed given his build up.
I'm not sure how good the people around him seem to think he is. They were moving him slow and then obviously saw he's a loose cannon so looked to cash in and mentioned a Lomachenko fight to which he sounded terrified and said he wouldn't do. Now you've got the other fighters like Machado and Farmer wanting to fight him and he's trying to fight fighters two weight classes smaller coming off comprehensive losses. The fact the WBA or whoever it was demoted Machado who legitimately won the title off a good guy and defended consistently to create a gift wrapped belt for Davis to beat a two years inactive guy coming up in weight off a dominant loss shows he gets favors and short cuts.
No chance. It's a sideshow type fight and I'm not sure why Garcia was so willing to do it (cashing out maybe?) and why Spence was so insistent on it.
I see. Seems a bit strange why Mikey would look to lose his '0' like that - unless like you said it was financially motivated - but then would the Lomachenko fight not make more sense?
I do think Garcia has better skills than Spence, and I’m sure he believes in his skills and has absolutely no fear of losing his 0. But this does not look good for Mikey stylistically. When there is such a big size difference, you usually need some other physical/athletic advantage in your favour (like Manny had with his hand and foot speed). Mikey’s strength is his fundaments, his jab in particular. But I don’t see how his jab will be able to keep someone like Spence at bay.
Harder to make because of the Top Rank thing and he’s very loyal to Al Haymon and hates Arum. He probably gets a bigger cut vs. Spence since Haymon tends to overpay especially if it means another promoter misses on a fight.
Harder to make because of the Top Rank thing and he’s very loyal to Al Haymon and hates Arum. He probably gets a bigger cut vs. Spence since Haymon tends to overpay especially if it means another promoter misses on a fight.
There's a good crop coming through and I think a more exciting group. Josh Taylor an absolutely elite talent, there's Josh Kelly and Devin Haney who IMO are blue chip prospects, Regis Prograis is very exciting, we've still got years to come out of Crawford, Lomachenko, Usyk, Joshua, Inoue. Others are are at the good/very good stage moving closer to stardom like Callum Smith, Jose Ramirez, Teofimo Lopez is another exciting talent, perhaps Shakur Stevenson in a few years. Probably another crop of Eastern Euro's coming through.
Must be broke.
Yeah this one isn't an exhibition. They've been training for over a year and been trying to sort the fight for the last 2 years.
They both know it ain’t happening any time soon but they putting on a show for the cameras. Nice exchange though - kept it competitive but still respectful.
Benn hates Eubank to the core of his being; even if there's a tidy purse coming along with the bout, there's definitely the bad blood carrying the fight. As far as I'm aware Benn has goaded and wanted to fight Eubank since the 00's.
Yeah I don’t like the idea of it at all. Would hate to be the ref for that one.
