Comments Thread For: Usyk Plans To 'Face Top Fighters Straight Away' at Heavyweight

[Southpawology]

This guy is a savage. Fights in other fighters hometowns and takes their belts then jumps to heavyweight and doesnt even want a tune up . What a BOSS.

[GlassJoey]

Parker or Whyte? Ortiz is a dangerous first step...

I think those 4 would make a great little mini league tournament. All 4 would have a chance in each fight but Ortiz looks like he might have too many miles on the clock to get through 3 big fights in 12 months.

[GlassJoey]

This guy is a savage. Fights in other fighters hometowns and takes their belts then jumps to heavyweight and doesnt even want a tune up . What a BOSS.

He just boxed the shiz out of a couple of big hitters at CW. Splattering a David Price type boxer will teach him nothing and might hurt his momentum. Wouldn’t mind seeing it though. Get that hype train running

[IronDanHamza]

Probably Dillian Whyte and AJ will fight Miller.

[slimPickings]

The Heavy Weight class is a whole different landscape for someone who is not a natural HW... I dont care how talented you are.

Lets see how he fares against his first "TOP" HW before anointing him as something he is not .... in THIS weight class.

[Bonduu]

Parker or Whyte? Ortiz is a dangerous first step...

Why and how is Ortiz dangerous? Who has he fought and beaten? He is just known for almost beating Wilder then gases out and a vicious KO by birdlegs!

[alexjust]

I would like to see him fight Ward, if Andrea came back. But yes, why not fight the heavyweights, they aren't that great. Usyk has a chance, although of course it would be tough against AJ, Fury and Wilder.

Usyk vs Ward seems like a mismatch in terms of size/weight.

[Boxing Logic]

Sounds like either Whyte or Miller will fight AJ in April, but not both. AJ is no Deontay Wilder, so he would never face both of them in the same night like Wilder or any PBC fighter would do. AJ is a euro bum on the Eddie Hearn plantation so he cant do stuff like that like Wilder does all the time. But anyway let's not get sidetracked arguing about THAT (since Im just joking about PBC fans anyway if you couldnt tell). Whichever of Whyte/Miller doesn't fight AJ in April, that should be Usyk's opponent in May. And Team Usyk should make clear to Eddie Hearn and DAZN that that is their job, to negotiate with those guys and figure out a number that works for them that will get Miller or Whyte into the ring with Usyk.

DAZN just signed the unified cruiserweight champion, an Olympic gold medalist in the prestigious super heavyweight division, and a top P4P boxer already in the pros. He is a superstar and his name will go down in boxing history already for what he did in the cruiserweight division. If this man wants his first fight at heavyweight to be a statement, if he wants to make a great first impression (since you can only make one first impression) at heavyweight, AND he is giving Hearn and DAZN it looks like 6+ months since his last fight to make it happen, I mean hell, if Hearn and DAZN can't even deliver for a boxer like that, like Usyk, then that would really say it all about the state of modern boxing and the start DAZN has gotten off to. And when I say "deliver," we're not talking about, "If DAZN can't force Anthony Joshua to abandon all his plans and fight Usyk when Usyk says, they suck." We're not talking about delivering THAT. We're not even talking about delivering a title shot with ANY titlist. All Usyk is asking for is a top 5 to 7 guy, a Dillian Whyte level of guy. Dillian Whyte MAY be top 5, he COULD be as high as #5 I guess, but he could also be as low as #7 or #8.

So, let's just call Dillian Whyte the #6 guy in the division. If Eddie Hearn and DAZN can't even deliver the unified cruiserweight titlist a fight with the #6 guy at heavyweight, on more than six months notice, then how useless does that make them look? If they cant deliver for Usyk, DAZN's first big signing after partnering with Eddie Hearn, then why should anyone else sign with them?

Anyway man, I hope Usyk's team is smart with his first fight, but it sounds like, if he's as good as they think (I mean he as at cruiser but at heavy?), and more importantly, if they know what they're doing in terms of bulking him up smartly, they are willing to put him in with a top guy his first fight at heavyweight, and if Usyk's run at heavyweight is going to start this year with a top 6 or so guy, and then just improve from there, then MAN am I hyped for Usyk's career going forward. Only thing that could get me more hyped than Usyk facing top 6-7 guys at heavyweight is him facing Andre Ward first, but Ward said "it would take a WHOLE LOT to make that happen," if memory serves on the exact quote. Not sure if he said "whole lot" or just "lot" but he definitely emphasized the "lot" part of it like "you better pay me something crazy to lose my undefeated record vs that dude." But that's just my interpretation.

[Papirico52]

Dude, AJ has 3 ****ing belts!! how is he a bum?

[yoshik]

Usyk would absolutely destroy Andrea Ward. Kovalev cleanly beat him the first fight. Usyk is light years beyond what Ward could even imagine. Bellew would have beat Ward that night.