Comments Thread For: Haye: I Had Bellew Ahead Of Usyk By One, But He Unraveled

[BoxingIsGreat]

I watch boxing for skills. Usyk is something else.

His defense. Some of the hooks to the body he avoided were amazing. Before the fight, I said Bellew would give up from sheer exhaustion, he did. Usyk just saved him a further unnecessary punishment. Bellew was the much bigger man too.

War Usyk! Till the next one.

[P4Pdunny]

I had it about even with Usyk beginning to pull away

[Robbie Barrett]

I watch boxing for skills. Usyk is something else.

His defense. Some of the hooks to the body he avoided were amazing. Before the fight, I said Bellew would give up from sheer exhaustion, he did. Usyk just saved him a further unnecessary punishment. Bellew was the much bigger man too.

War Usyk! Till the next one.

Comments like this are just puzzling to me. Why say something that is CLEARLY wrong. Usyk looked much bigger, he was much thicker than Bellew.

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I had Bellew up by a round but he clearly went all out during the first half whereas Usyk was just warming up.

[MDPopescu]

Usyk pressured Bellew constantly from round 1, making him burn a lot of energy without using much up himself. Watching it back, I loved the way he was using his feet and feints to pressure him and make him work all the round at his pace.

Sure, he gave away a couple of rounds and took a few shots but nothing really hard and throughout he was forcing Tony to punch himself out. By the time round 5 had finished Bellew was gassed and Usyk was properly starting to work him over. The writing was on the wall from then.

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... That's how it actually happened...