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Former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis believes the trauma of the ninth round Tyson Fury endured against Oleksandr Usyk in May could have lingering effects
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Well, Lennox would know what it means to face (and overcome) those kind of demons at the highest level of the sport.
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This is the fascinating part of elite heavyweight boxing. He got hurt and nearly knocked out and he absolutely has to be at ease with the possibility of it happening again or he won't win.
AJ gets so much criticism for being chinny but i'm always pretty impressed that vs Ruiz and Dubois he spent I dunno about 6 complete rounds trying to land the bingo punch whilst he himself was fighting a tip toe out of the shadow realm.
We already know Fury has no issues with this usually.
I'm sure he'd rather get chinned than lose wide on points.Comment
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Maybe Usyk also took a bit of damage. He was wincing at some of Fury's punches.
I think Fury should be more aggressive and back Usyk up, whilst being careful of counterpunches.
He can use his size and power to do that, but he can't just copy and paste what he did against Wilder in the second and third fights. Usyk is a clever boxer, Wilder never was that.
Usyk doesn't have the power of heavyweights like Zhang, but he hits hard enough where he already knows he can hurt Fury.Comment
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Yep, no questions at all about AJ's heart. He was pressing forward and tagging DuBois hard when he got caught. Honestly, I was impressed by that, considering how AJ was badly hurt multiple times prior to that. Bad strategy? Maybe. But no lack of heart.
I don't doubt Fury that way either. He's gotten up multiple times to finish Wilder. He can hold it together in there.Comment
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As I posted in another thread a while back, to this day I wonder how in the world can Lewis' second fight with Oliver McCall - just out of rehab and mentally devastated, as everybody saw that night - be seriously considered as a revenge win for Lennox, who didn't even press the action too much that night in view of his opponent's extremely weakened faculties.
But, on the other hand, I don't have to be surprised, given that Lewis keeps bragging about his win against the drugged corpse of Mike Tyson as his "legacy defining" fight
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Somehow everybody overlooks the fact that the Giant is 40 lbs heavier than Usyk. They have to change this because there is no weight limit for heavyweights. If you put Crawford at 140 against Bivol at 180, would it be fair? Hell no.Comment
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True that McCall fight sure was a perfect example of Boxing -- everyone was outraged but the people putting the fight on TV There have been many fights similar to that as the announcers protest " this is a travesty " but everyone collects there checks and moves on '''''''''' And yet they outlaw ****fights.....As I posted in another thread a while back, to this day I wonder how in the world can Lewis' second fight with Oliver McCall - just out of rehab and mentally devastated, as everybody saw that night - be seriously considered as a revenge win for Lennox, who didn't even press the action too much that night in view of his opponent's extremely weakened faculties.
But, on the other hand, I don't have to be surprised, given that Lewis keeps bragging about his win against the drugged corpse of Mike Tyson as his "legacy defining" fightComment
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Nobody overlooks that or has ever done in the entire history of the sport.
Or maybe even in human history and mythology.
Your point/whine is genuinely one of the main reasons why people do and have always watched heavies.
That's without getting into the technicalities of what advantages a smaller (yet still big human being) may have over an abmormally large one in a sporting contest.
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If Fury is scarred by Usyk, then AJ got totally Freddie Krugered by Doobie.Comment
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