Comments Thread For: Usyk Aims For The Goal of Unifying Cruiserweight Division

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By Thomas Gerbasi - When he's not punching someone in the face, Aleksandr Usyk can usually be found with a smile on his face, a joke coming out of his mouth, magic tricks, or maybe even a song bellowing out to the world. In the process, it's made the WBO cruiserweight champion pretty popular these days. "I'm already popular?" he asks through manager / translator Egis Klimas. "I'm surprised...
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[1hourRun]

The accomplishment of consolidating a division is not all the same and really overvalued in some cases IMO ; as it stands its more difficult for Uzyk because the titles are even more fragmented after Lededev got to keep his WBA title despite taking a official L to the new IBF champion Murat Gassiev.

If Uzyk rips these titles one by one that would be legendary -- HOF inbound with wins over : Glowacki ,Lebedev, Gassiev, Breidis, three of these guys would be undefeated by the time Usyk got to them and Lebedev maybe HOF.

[anonymous2.0]

with new trainer Russ Anber in the corner

I thought lomachenko's dad was his new trainer? Or am I thinking of someone else?

[JASON SHAW]

BOOOORING FIGHTER! FELL ASLEEP DURING HIS LAST FIGHT....

[BoxingFan85]

I thought lomachenko's dad was his new trainer? Or am I thinking of someone else?

Russ would be his main trainer.. papa chenko would be second in command..

[Mammoth]

Too homely to be the new white hope?

[j0zef]

Completely forgoth that both him and Gvozdyk are fighting on Lomachenko's card. Two highly rated, exciting fighters? Can't wait for that card!
Sucks their opponents are meh at best though.

[BigZ44]

Don't think Usyk will have any trouble with Hunter, who is too green imo and should've had a few more fights before being thrown in the deep end. Was hoping they'd get someone like Wlodarczyk or Cunningham for this fights. There are a lot of really good fighters at 200 lbs with a mixture of styles. I hope Usyk stays at 200 for a while to fight guys like Gassiev, Briedis, Lebedev and Dorticos.

[PunchyPotorff]

I'm not going to pump up Hunter, he has had the easier fights leading up to this, but man was his Dad ever a blast to watch. Never will forget his fight with Avery Rawls, when Rawls was an 8-0 highly touted prospect. Hunter basically embarrassed Rawls for 8 rounds. And he was a badazz in his private life too.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Hats off to him then. I hope he can. If we have most of heavyweight, cruiserweight, light heavyweight and middleweight unified, this is a great thing for boxing.