Comments Thread For: Khan on Usyk: He's in Great Shape, He's A lot Bigger, A lot Thicker - Still Very Quick

[denium]

I have a sneaky feeling that Joshua is gonna get knocked spark out.

[P to the J]

I have started to think that Usyk didn't really step on the gas pedal in the first fight.

He's probably doing it next Saturday.

Looking forward to seeing if he can take Joshua out sooner than many people expect, like in the 6th or 7th round.

Remember, he got told off by his corner for going through the gears in round 1

[P to the J]

15 kg in 11 months despite going through full-scale invasion at the halfway point of this period seems a LOT. Especially when the rumours were he’d lost loads (though that was probably just dehydration)

Not a boxer, and I haven’t weight trained terribly well in the last couple of years, so maybe someone else can tell me it’s not a big deal. But even as VP of the Usyk supporter’s club, I find this suspicious.

[P to the J]

Wrong. The UK is one of our 3 main allies. US and Poland the other 2.

Just to clarify, the UK and US’ support of Ukraine has amounted to handing billions of pounds to corporate arms dealers, whose task is ostensibly to then ship weapons to the Ukraine, but a recent study has shown only 30% of U.S weapons have made it over.

Further, both of these nations keep letting by slip that they’re hoping your nation really weakens Russia badly with long-term war.

What I’m saying, in short, is not to trust either of these nations

[Kris Silver]

I've seen Khan saying 15kg, 33 lbs, and that's apparently what Usyk told him. Really, since what point in time?

He lost a stone, 6kg in his first week in the war efforts.

Something doesn't add up.

[Andrij]

I've seen Khan saying 15kg, 33 lbs, and that's apparently what Usyk told him. Really, since what point in time?

He lost a stone, 6kg in his first week in the war efforts.

Something doesn't add up.

Usyk probably meant he gained 33 pounds since moving up to Heavyweight. So 233 pounds. And his team manager recently posted that he weighed 236 pounds a week ago.

[PRINCEKOOL]

I doubt Usyk will be much bigger. These sort of reports always come out leading up to fights.

Maybe he will come in a tad bigger, but so will Joshua.

I think Joshua will land between 242-244 pounds.

Take the 12 th round out of the fight. Joshua was the fighter who inflicted the most damage, and who's semi-aggressive attacks were shaking Usyk.

I watched the fight back last week. Good fight, Usyk's performance was a tad overrated.

Usyk won the fight from rounds 9-12, up until that point it was pretty much level. Usyk clearly the better boxer, but surprising Joshua hung in their with those tactics.

The 12 th round is a bit overrated as well, Joshua's fatigue made it seem more dramatic. Even still he invaded most of Usyk's attacks.

I am still backing Joshua to win. Maybe even over the distance. Ether which way, he is going to win.

[CasperUK]

Wrong. The UK is one of our 3 main allies. US and Poland the other 2.

Do the Polish hate Russia because of Katyn Massacre or is it more than that?

[PrimadonnaKool]

15 kg in 11 months despite going through full-scale invasion at the halfway point of this period seems a LOT. Especially when the rumours were he’d lost loads (though that was probably just dehydration)

Not a boxer, and I haven’t weight trained terribly well in the last couple of years, so maybe someone else can tell me it’s not a big deal. But even as VP of the Usyk supporter’s club, I find this suspicious.

If we are being serious here for a minute....

Usyk gradually gained weight after he moved up to heavyweight, fight by fight, a few lbs here, a few lbs there. It seemed like a pretty natural progression for a guy who was making 200 pretty easily at cw

221 vs Joshua 1 to me seemed like a pretty natural weight for the guy when in peak shape, 21 lbs North of what he weighed in (fairly comfortably at cw)

He clearly lost a lot of size with the war situation, when he was IN Instagram for example he was looking quite gaunt, and I wouldny have been shocked if his weight was below 200lbs at that point.

Now its likely that he would rehydrate, get back on a good diet and regain most of that size in a standard training camp, yes, however him being BIGGER than before is a major red flag, especially as, remember, this is boxing training NOT bodybuilding or mass gaining. In fact boxing training normally you LOSE weight.

In my opinion Usyk is absoloutley not natural at this stage, just think logically about it. It wouldn't make any sense. To me it's obvious he's hopped on something to get back into shape quickly for the rematch and it's worked, really ****ing well.

I'm expecting a brutal ko of Joshua.

[PRINCEKOOL]

It is not even a sound or good tactics to suddenly gain masses of weight 'Especially for Usyk'.

Anthony Joshua has experience of being 250 pounds, and being in a hard fight 'And winning vs Kiltschko'.

Joshua has all of this experience and evidence, that he can perform at the higher weights.

That is why I don't expect Uysk to come in much heavier, I think this is just people getting carried away.

All the training and preparation are pretty much done. I want to now see some footage of both fighters training camps.