Comments Thread For: Whyte Not Concerned With Usyk's Abilities as a Heavyweight

[landotter]

Usyk can either handle the bigger HW punches coming back at him and can beat anyone, or he is getting KO'd at some point. He is skilled, smart, and will not duck anyone. He can out box anyone. But the point many of the posters bring up on this thread about him not scaring anyone at 240 and above because he does not have enough power to hurt them is 100% fair. So the difference in any Usyk HW fight is his ability to handle getting rocked.

Whyte can hurt him. No doubt. But if the Joyce fight actually happens (seems like they have been talking about it with no real progress) it will be a great frame of reference for what Usyk offers. If he can handle that power Joyce brings he probably can handle most anyone elses.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Rivas is short for HW at 6’0 but he comes in around 240-250. How is that a midget? Sure he’s trying to get down to this bridgeweight but he has to lose 20-25lbs

I believe the only reason Rivas went for that bridgeweight title was he saw that as a stepping stone to challenge WBC hw champion.