Comments Thread For: Promoter: Usyk Can Face Ortiz, Povetkin or Lebedev

[champion4ever]

His quest to become undisputed cruiserweight champion is a good start. Briedis is a solid competitor and the Russian he faced in the final is formidable. It’s the lesson Usyk dished out that now makes you question Gassiev.

He was given out boxing clinics to Klitschko too in sparring

Good answer Anthony! Now don't you think that Luis Ortiz can replicate those results and do it in a more impressive fashion than Oleksandr Usyk did against the quality of opposition who've just named?

Ortiz would knock everyone of those opponents Usyk challenged in the WBSS out.

[whatismyname]

All great fights.

[DeaconFrost]

All great fights.

The fights on this thread might be as entertaining

[champion4ever]

Usyk will box circles around Ortiz. And Usyk is from Ukraine, not Kazakhstan.

Povetkin is the more dangerous opponent.

Please! Povetkin is chinny and way too easy to hit.

[kafkod]

Usyk has been a cruiser for a reason. So any discussion of walk around weight needs to be used in context. Besides, size isn't just weight. Ortiz is a big bodied strong dude. I bring up southpaw because I would imagine that Ortiz being of Cuban decent has had more opportunities to fight other southpaws than Usyk. As for power, Ortiz has more power than Gassiev and is a far more tactical fighter.

Not saying that Usyk can't win, just saying it would be a very interesting fight. If I was his manager, I would target Povetkin. It would basically be a cruiserweight match up at heavyweight...and Povetkin post meldonium will gas like Bellew.

There's a reason why Ortiz isn't at cruiserweight ... you can see it hanging over his waistband in this photo.

[Jkp]

Global appeal where? Maybe in Harlem and Brooklyn. In Cuba they support Whyte over King Kong. He faced Wilder billed as the bogeyman Gorilla and left the ring an old monkey. He is finished.

Lol... no one outside of UK knows who ***** whyte is, the ones that do know he's an awful sloppy domestic level boxer and would never pay money to see him get another beat down.

Ortiz haters have to pay the same money to watch the fight as the ortiz supporters.

[McNulty]

Dude really? I think he outboxes Ortiz easily. Fat old ****.

Yes really. He's not a HW for a reason and chose CW. His first 4 fights were at HW and he slinked down to CW to feast on smaller dudes. Usyk wont do shít at HW but get sparked. Bellew, old áss Bellew was pushing his shít in and only got stopped because he drained to get down to the weight.

This guy has 16 fůcking wins and 31 years old and y'all are swalloing his sword like he's the next Mike Tyson. His prime is practically over.

[Oshio]

These are risky fights for Usyk bar Lebedev. Good to know that Usyk will soon join the fray

[Eff Pandas]

F#ck Lebedev. I'll root for Usyk vs Povetkin here.

I think that'll answer some questions about how Usyk deals with power & if he doesn't deal with it well he might can still eek this one out if he takes a more movement orientated style if he gets dropped or hurt vs the slower & older Povetkin.

And if he does well he'll have a **** measuring fight with Joshua out of the gate at HW which will likely get him on the shortlist for Joshua's next opponent.

[Marchegiano]

It'd be cool to see Usyk whoop more Russians given the whole political situation, but, Ortiz is really the better fighters and bigger test. If Usyk really wants to prove something Ortiz is his man.