Comments Thread For: BoxingScene Roundtable: What Next For Usyk And Fury?

[Tibburon245]

They need another weight division at 230 lbs or so. How is it fair for a 230 lb fighter to fight a guy 30-40 lbs heavier? They make a big deal if lower-weight fighters miss the weight by a few lbs, but as it is now a heavyweight at 200 lbs could have to fight a guy 280-300 lbs? Very dumb! By the way, Usyk was deprived of a KO when the ref stopped the action.

[Blackstarr]

Dumbass its because of what Wilder has accomplished. If he gets past Zuang,then a fight with Usyk is necesarry to make Usyk the greatest heavy weight champion of this era. Plus Wilder still needs to fight Joshua before they both retire

And what has Wilder accomplished of late? For all his knockouts he has beaten just two Ring-rated HWs out of 44 opponents, got stopped by Fury twice, and completely white-washed by Parker. Ultimately he has lost three of his last four and is ranked no higher than 7th by the Ring, TBRB, ESPN and other comparable publications.

The OP is right..Wilder shouldn’t be in the conversation at all unless he somehow avenges his defeat against Parker and then beats AJ, as was the original plan to leave himself waiting in line, or goes through everyone else (Zhang, Hrgovic, Kabayel etc.) like Parker is currently doing.

Beating Zhang alone, who himself is coming off a loss against Parker, changes almost nothing. The fact Turki plans to match him against Jared Anderson should he get through Zhang tells you as much.

[Jsrr]

I wondered why he didn't just grab Usyk when he got hurt? Instead he fell all around the ring instead

Looking back at the replay, it seems like he did try at least once at the beginning of the combo but Usyk slipped away and didn't let him clinch/hug!

[garfios]

I wondered why he didn't just grab Usyk when he got hurt? Instead he fell all around the ring instead

Because he was out, he didn't know where he was.

[Thatmanox]

They need another weight division at 230 lbs or so. How is it fair for a 230 lb fighter to fight a guy 30-40 lbs heavier? They make a big deal if lower-weight fighters miss the weight by a few lbs, but as it is now a heavyweight at 200 lbs could have to fight a guy 280-300 lbs? Very dumb! By the way, Usyk was deprived of a KO when the ref stopped the action.

It’s okay, Dubois was deprived of a KO when he dropped Usyk from a legal body shot and the ref stopped the action as well.

[Butt stuff]

Not that I want to see it, but Fury could win the rematch by employing the awful Klitschko punch-fall in-clinch all night. He has the size and the reach. TBH, that's what I thought he was going to do.

Yeah I thought he was gonna do what Wlad did to Povetkin. Usyk was exhausted from round 4, if he had Fury on top of him he’d be barely standing by 12.

Though I’m eternally grateful that wasn’t what we watched.

[yoshik]

Biggest fanboy and moronic comment of all time...

"It’s okay, Dubois was deprived of a KO when he dropped Usyk from a legal body shot and the ref stopped the action as well."

[Superbee]

Only thing that makes sense now is Fury/Joshua ... Then one of them can talk "Usyk" ...

[trippleupper]

I think Fury has been on the decline for a while. He's been abusing his body in many ways and has taken too much damage over the last years. He hasn't looked impressive since Wilder 2.

Look like his punch resistance is gone.

I was wondering about that too.

When that first big left landed his eyes changed.

[trippleupper]

It's insane to me that people are bringing up Wilder like wtf.

"If Wilder zaps Zhang" -- and what if Zhang wins?

Has there ever been a southpaw vs. southpaw heavy championship?