Comments Thread For: The WBSS at Cruiserweight Worked (and That's No Small Feat)

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By Cliff Rold - Tournaments in boxing can be a lot of fun. They can also be a hot mess. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. The World Boxing Super Series at Cruiserweight has managed to be the former without being the latter and for that alone it deserves kudos. That it will culminate with one of the best fights, on paper, that can be made in any weight division does as well. Oleksandr Usyk-Murat Gassiev is fantastic stuff...
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[landotter]

Pure gold. Pure fun. Total drama. Maybe hard to expect any of these tournaments to go this well again. (Props to the Super MW tourney as well. Not nearly as polished or talented fighters, but still a straight up good run.)

I need to pick an actual winner. But right now, I am just excited for it.

[1hourRun]

This article took me way back, I instantly remembered a frozen Jermain Taylor on the floor after Abraham landed that vicious straight right penetrating Taylors guard.

And the Tyson vs. Spinks reference tho! ( ninety-one seconds or not. ) I like that type of talk, Cliff got bars? I has gif.



I'm hoping Murat Gassiev sleeps Usyk the same way!

And thanks for the great news regarding the announcement of the 118 WBSS coming soon!

While it hasn’t been seeded yet (the ‘draft’ is intended for Friday on the eve of the cruiserweight final) one can wager a pretty educated guess that the beltholders will take the top four slots. Those men are Naoya Inoue (WBA sub), Ryan Burnett (WBA super), Emmanuel Rodriguez (IBF), and Zolani Tete (WBO).

[Abovetheclouds]

WBSS making boxing great again

[Vinnykin]

The thing I like most about the WBSS is it's set up to always have a winner in every fight, we know there will never be a draw due to the countback system, so the fighters really push to win the rounds and especially the later rounds. This takes away any coasting to decisions or negative boxing.

[Chrismart]

The WBSS has been a success. Especially at CW, when we get such a great fight to finish it all off.

It's been great for boxing. The 118 tournament looks another fun one.
Hopefully it keeps growing and building a reputation and we get more fighters signing up and less incidents of guys not opting to sign up (Ramirez, Zurdo, Dirrell).

I'm looking forward to Saturday's fight, and before that, Fridays draft.

[TheCell8]

You need a lot of luck for these tournaments to work. By luck I mean no injuries.

[CocoonOfHorror]

CW WBSS has been incredible. The QF were good but the semis were fantastic. Gassiev-Dorticos is my leader for fight of the year and Usyk-Breidis was also great. Here's hoping the final tops them all.
The Usyk-Gassiev winner has talked of going to heavyweight next, but there's an interesting wrinkle that I haven't seen discussed. Given the WBO policy of elevating a champion moving up in weight to #1 contender status in the higher division, the winner on Saturday could immediately be declared mandatory for Joshua.

(And given that the Povetkin fight fulfills the WBA mandatory, and no one seems to want to fight Pulev for IBF status, the WBO mandatory must be coming up. As interesting as this would be, I'm praying that they make the Wilder fight first.)

[QueensburyRules]

--- much better than the original super6 announced with great fanfare only to wash out by the end.

Good luck gentlemen and pray for a fair ref, a rare thing to behold in the ring these days

[Banderivets]

It's been great.

With proper planning it can work always every time.

Have stand-by's for potential injuries that would cause a substantial delay (4 months +). Might not be fair for some, but for boxing to be big you need to do this, pump out fights, do these tournaments and have conditions that if someone gets injured you have X time to get back, if not someone steps in. Keeps the train going and fan interest high.