End all the drama. Usyk rightly won.

Usyk could have also reviewed all the boxing skills of Rico, how he moves and stands, both overall and while exchanging with hands only. You can't make that a solid one-sided apology. Plus, what happened with his "unmatched ring IQ" - being unable to analyse what Rico was doing for 10 rounds? On the other hand, Rico was at a disadvantage for all the reasons: boxing being dirty, and in particular towards "externals", but also because all his habits, reflexes, and combinations had to be rebuilt into pure boxing.

The result of the fight is one thing. But the bigger issue of what happend is that --- one of the so called best fighters of our era, Usyk STRUGGLED vs a 37 yr old kickboxer with1 pro fight. That performance showed the world that a non professional kickboxer can do that to a top boxer. that in reality Usyk is not the top P4P boxer in the world. And it showed that Usyk is no where near the top 10 best boxers of all time. It also showed me that there are a lot of Usyk supporters in the west, that get extremely offended by this. usyk is great but it shows what what you can do it you study usyk long enough, didn't rico train 6 months for usyk, whilst usyk had no idea what he's facing. I hear Bruce Lee studied Ali. You telling me that's not an advantage if Bruce fought Ali

The result of the fight is one thing. But the bigger issue of what happend is that --- one of the so called best fighters of our era, Usyk STRUGGLED vs a 37 yr old kickboxer with1 pro fight. That performance showed the world that a non professional kickboxer can do that to a top boxer. that in reality Usyk is not the top P4P boxer in the world. And it showed that Usyk is no where near the top 10 best boxers of all time. It also showed me that there are a lot of Usyk supporters in the west, that get extremely offended by this. A lot of Usyk supporters are supremacist types from the west who worship slavs as the "supreme white caste" I'm not even joking, Ukraine is a neo Nazi country and a lot of his support comes from those types but it's NEVER discussed because UKR is sacred at the moment due to the russia situation. Any football fan knows this already, Dynamo Kiev is one of the most racist away games you can possibly get

The result of the fight is one thing. But the bigger issue of what happend is that --- one of the so called best fighters of our era, Usyk STRUGGLED vs a 37 yr old kickboxer with1 pro fight. That performance showed the world that a non professional kickboxer can do that to a top boxer. that in reality Usyk is not the top P4P boxer in the world. And it showed that Usyk is no where near the top 10 best boxers of all time. It also showed me that there are a lot of Usyk supporters in the west, that get extremely offended by this.

Let’s say everything you’re saying is true, why on earth did Usyk struggle so badly against a past prime kickboxer? It seems to me that the excuses people are making for Usyk are as if he was in there with a prime heavyweight boxer but he wasn’t, he was fighting a past prime kickboxer. Might've had something to do with the fact that he's 39 years old, and came in overweight and complacent. Only 3 heavyweight champions who successfully defended the title past 39, George Foreman, Vitali Klitschko, and..... Oleksandr Usyk. Usyk is on borrowed time as heavyweight champ.

Usyk would have easily stopped him in the 12th the same way he was supposed to easily beat him in 5 rounds to begin with See how that doesn't work.

Let’s say everything you’re saying is true, why on earth did Usyk struggle so badly against a past prime kickboxer? It seems to me that the excuses people are making for Usyk are as if he was in there with a prime heavyweight boxer but he wasn’t, he was fighting a past prime kickboxer.

Rico wants a a long boxing career so it was a good stoppage, l ive to fight another day. On the other hand if it was a one off fight for rico then it was premature.

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The ref stopped it despite rico having 60 seconds to recover from a MINOR knockdown in a champion fight It was a slip.

I watched the fight twice and honestly I don’t see the robbery some people are talking about. It was close in spots, but Usyk controlled the pace, landed the cleaner shots, and adjusted way better in the later rounds. Fury had moments with his size and pressure, but Usyk’s movement and ring IQ were the difference for me. Close fight? Sure. But I think the right man got the decision. Geometry Dash

Fans (particularly Usyk haters) are now giving all the benefit of the doubt to Rico and taking everything away from Usyk. Typical biased fangirl behaviour. It's all or nothing thinking. Calling people who critise someone you obviously like (but hey, you are not a fangirl) "haters" is not biased? A smart man once said that this is "black and white thinking, without any nuance. That's the way most people's mind work." Only a Usyk bu*thurt fangirl can start such a thread. It surely is dramatic for them, but it's tradicomedy for others.

Rico was hurt at the end of the 10th and Usyk went for the kill in the 11th. At first Rico didn't even protest the stoppage and neither were his corner protesting the stoppage. Rico was very hurt at the end of the 11th, even worse than he was at the end of the 10th. He was going downhill very quickly. I still would have preferred that the ref give him some benefit of the doubt though. I'm pretty confident that Usyk would have beat him up and KO'd him in the twelfth round. So in some sense the ref did Usyk AND Rico a disservice. Also, most of us boxing fans still wanted to see it play out fully, so that we could be sure of the end result. With that stoppage, many of us are now questioning how it would play out. Fans (particularly Usyk haters) are now giving all the benefit of the doubt to Rico and taking everything away from Usyk. Typical biased fangirl behaviour. It's all or nothing thinking. Black and white thinking, without any nuance. That's the way most people's minds work. Many people were moaning about Joshua taking so long to get out a relative newbie small cruiserweight Youtuber (Jake Paul) and getting hit a few times by him but then when he finally stops Jake (which we all expected to happen within 2 or 3 rounds tops), Joshua is all of a sudden the hero and saviour of boxing (haha). All or nothing thinking. Black and white. No nuance or dissection of the fights. Just ridiculous, "fighter A should simply come in and club the other guy to death within a round or 3". Rico wasn't a 195 pound Jake Paul. He was a 258 pound, life long fighter who had fought guys much bigger than himself for years (not lazy middleweights, geriatric, arthritic seniors and 175 pound MMA has-beens) and he had a ton of boxing experience with the Fury's and other fighters. Just because he wasn't known "NAME" in boxing circles doesn't diminish his actual skill and capabilities. Do people understand the weird comparisons between this fight and the Joshua VS Jake Paul fight?

See but this why they have the contests and officiate them properly rather than speculate. Rico might have been stopped in the 12th or maybe he recoops and survives even winning the rd but we will never know because it was incorrectly stopped after the 11th rd had ended. If Rico won the 12th and went to points. He still doesn't win the fight...

The judges are a joke Usyk only won't 3 rounds Even a 10-8 in the 12 he still loses The ref stopped it despite rico having 60 seconds to recover from a minor knockdown in a champion fight Minor knockdown? Lmao go look at it again. Also got extra time by taking their time with the mouth guard. Draw after 10. 10-8 in the 11th to Usyk. Even if Rico won 12th without a knockout he still wasn't winning the fight.

The judges are a joke Usyk only won't 3 rounds Even a 10-8 in the 12 he still loses The ref stopped it despite rico having 60 seconds to recover from a minor knockdown in a champion fight

Also they should stop putting up these trash scorecards up on tv from people like Coppinger