Comments Thread For: The talents of Oleksandr Usyk run deeper than skill

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[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Usyk is an incredibly strong fighter mentally. He always responds to adversity in the ring. Look how he responded to AJ after round 10 or Fury after round 6. That’s an elite winning mentality right there.

[dibzvincent143]

I don’t know if usyk truly adjusts mid fight or his opponent just tires before he does. Or just a combination of both

[BrankoB]

I don’t know if usyk truly adjusts mid fight or his opponent just tires before he does. Or just a combination of both

I think that because of his incredible conditioning he is able to maintain the same pace for 12 rounds while his opponents start getting tired in the second half of the fight. It looks like his second wind or a mid fight adjustment but I think it is just the other guy always getting tired after 6 or 7 rounds. I remember before the Gassiev fight I thought that Murat had a decent chance of knocking out Usyk until I saw Usyk throw that jab like a machine gun while constantly moving without a pause. I remember thinking "I have never seen a big man with so much stamina to sustain that insane work rate".

[1Eriugenus]

'Usyk is an incredibly strong fighter mentally. He always responds to adversity in the ring. Look how he responded to AJ after round 10 or Fury after round 6. That’s an elite winning mentality right there.'

You said it. I think Usyk is hard for boxing casuals to comprehend because he doesn't seem to be exceptional. He doesn't bring devastating power, he doesn't storm forward & throw a hundred punches every round & he doesn't have photogenic skills that allow him to throw blurring combinations or miss a punch by micro-millimetres & make the puncher look like a bum. His 3 exceptional qualities are (1) Like you said, apart from Ali & Holyfield, no-one is close to his mental resiliency. No matter what happens in that ring you know Usyk just will not fold. (2) Exceptional stamina. Just exceptional. I suspect that in a few years time all young boxers will swim 100 lengths or whatever. (3) Focus. Just perfect, he is one of the very few boxers who could out-stare, out-focus even Tank. When he gets in that ring Usyk is on the money for 60 seconds of every minute from beginning of R1 to end of R12. Put that together & he is one bad MoFo to beat.

[ShoulderRoll]

Usyk’s strong religious faith helps him mentally. It’s refreshing to see that in boxing.

[1Eriugenus]

Religion has caused far more harm than good for society.
Religion has helped one person.
These ideas are not contradictory & the second does not disprove the first. I had a friend who was in gangs, was stabbed, almost died. He became an evangelical Christian & never went back to crime. Which is, obviously, good. That doesn't mean, overall, Christianity is good.

[letsgochump]

Luke Partridge is going down.

[Lance98]

Usyk has an underrated chin, great stamina and persistence to stick to his game no matter what.

[NihonJim]

'Usyk is an incredibly strong fighter mentally. He always responds to adversity in the ring. Look how he responded to AJ after round 10 or Fury after round 6. That’s an elite winning mentality right there.'

You said it. I think Usyk is hard for boxing casuals to comprehend because he doesn't seem to be exceptional. He doesn't bring devastating power, he doesn't storm forward & throw a hundred punches every round & he doesn't have photogenic skills that allow him to throw blurring combinations or miss a punch by micro-millimetres & make the puncher look like a bum. His 3 exceptional qualities are (1) Like you said, apart from Ali & Holyfield, no-one is close to his mental resiliency. No matter what happens in that ring you know Usyk just will not fold. (2) Exceptional stamina. Just exceptional. I suspect that in a few years time all young boxers will swim 100 lengths or whatever. (3) Focus. Just perfect, he is one of the very few boxers who could out-stare, out-focus even Tank. When he gets in that ring Usyk is on the money for 60 seconds of every minute from beginning of R1 to end of R12. Put that together & he is one bad MoFo to beat.

The eastern euro fighters in general focus on absolute mastery of the basics of boxing.

Usyk, Bertebiev and Bivol, lomachenko.

They absoloutley perfect the basics and everything comes off that.

Western fighters always want to get fancy and flashy and neglect the A,B,C's.

The military like discipline is the other thing they have over us.

Unless you are a prime Roy Jones freak of nature, any fighter should respect and perfect the basics and conditioning, they will take you 90% of the way.