Comments Thread For: Oleksandr Usyk Set Down as Mandatory For Ruiz-Joshua Winner

[Motorcity Cobra]

Not going to argue about the Brits, outside of Fury I'm not really sold on any of them I think the British fans can be a little much. But that goes for all fans tbh.

To be honest I'm taking a more political stance, and here I think the Brits just don't have guys that are broke and hungry enough given the wealth of the UK.

Telling you man, those east euros come from places where the projects of New York look like nice wholesome residential neighborhoods. They come from a place where the average salary is less than in Mexico.

Speaking of hunger, how is boxing doing in Detroit these days? Are there enough kids going into boxing gyms? Or kids all about football and basketball these days?

I'm in Cincinnati now and boxing is thriving here. Gyms everywhere and I go to at least one local show a month. Amateur or pro. I can meet a random person on the street here and talk boxing and they'll know more about it than a casual fans. Everybody here knows about boxing. I can bring up Andrade & they'll know who he is.

I think that's why my opinion on DAZN is so strong. If people here aren't accepting of it then it's not crossing over to the casual fan and thats who they need to survive. People are fairly familiar with it. This is a typical conversation I'll have.

Me: You watching the Andrade fight this weekend?

Them: What channel is it on?

Me: It's on DAZN

Them: That app? Man why they keep putting these fights on the apps. I might check it out. How I do it?

And then it's me taking 5 mins to explain to download, how much it costs, and how to mirror it to their TV. And they're usually uninterested by the time I'm finished and are content with just watching the highlights the next day.

[KTFOKING]

If Ruiz wins, he will likely vacate the belt, and if Joshua wins, he fights Usyk early 2020.

Good move by Hearn all but assuring one of his fighters having one of the belts.

[Mexican_Puppet]

Agree to disagree then man. CW is historically weak, but Usyk's rise there was far better than the HW division has been in the last decade. Usyk also deserves to be #1 WBO over anyone else ranked in the WBO in my opinion.

Briedis, Gassiev and Bellew in the same year is an incredible feat.

Ruiz/Wilder can still happen. He'd just have to drop the WBO. Unfortunate, but expected. I just thought it would be the IBF he had to drop. And all this doesn't mean the WBO doesn't get out of the way and allow the unification also.

Man, Gassiev and Bellew are B class champions.

They are not great fighters or dangerous fighters.

Gassiev fights in slow motion, and Bellew is nothing special, and he don't have good chin and has a mediocre stamina.

And nope, heavyweight with Ruiz, Parker, Joshua, Wilder, Ortiz, Fury and Whyte is a much more talented division

[pollywog]

If I'm Ruiz, I vacate the WBO belt right now, cos win lose or draw, Usyk doesn't deserve a shot at it.

Put it up for grabs and let Usyk vs Windmill or The gypsy king fight for it, then unify the winners of that bout vs Ruiz or Joshua.

My pick is, Usyk gets flattened by both Wilder or Fury.

[markther]

[4truth]

Slow feet? Did you watch him do ladders before the Joshua fight?

Ruiz is more dangerous than Joshua is in this case.

He is a sophisticated boxer puncher, and the speed, I think Usyk should be rooting for AJ big time.

It’s a lot more evident in his fight with Parker. (A fight I thought Ruiz won but would have won clearly if he didn’t tire in the middle rounds) What is also evident is that he has issues with his stamina. Issues like these are all relative to who he fighting however. Against Joshua his feet and stamina seemed fine because Joshua’s issues in those areas are even bigger.

Usyk can do all the things that Joshua could not. He is going to make Ruiz deal with angles and he’s going make Ruiz work non stop. Ruiz’s fat isn’t an issue unless you make move that bulk around. Moving that 260 pounds around burns energy, a lot of energy if he has to try to do it quickly or constantly change direction. Ruiz is fairly efficient shuffling straight ahead behind his jab.

We will see but my opinion is that the two worst possible matchups for Ruiz are the fighters who move well and are in no way looking to engage in a firefight, Fury and Usyk.

[Larry the boss]

The B.itch is back...lol


First off, anyone who stands in front of Aj is tailor made that's why he got the first knockdown.

what defeated him was a fast spurt fight and getting caught where he nearly ended it but got caught instead after the follow up.

Secondly imbecile,Joshua brought Joey D. in his last week of camp when you shouldn't be sparring at all bc a fighter takes more punishment then the sparring guys bc theres only ONE of him and it can drain you severly ,but you wouldn't know that bc you're a B.ITCH . ....lol

If im old and fat why not fight me ? you said you wanted to ? Another LarryXXX on here....lmao


Anything else ?

so when are you coming to memphis chump?

[TinAgeOfBoxing]

"Super champion" is made up BS. Usuck has not fought one HW fight and he is a mando lol. Sanctioning bodies continue to make boxing a joke.

[LoadedWraps]

so when are you coming to memphis chump?

Tell em larryx!

They don't want it with the king.

[Larry the boss]

Tell em larryx!

They don't want it with the king.

guy keeps mentioning my name, talking tough he told me OVER A YEAR AGO!!! that he had a gym down here we could fight in, WELL DAMN HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WAIT FOR HIM TO BACK HIS TOUGH TALK UP??? he just vanishes then i call him out he makes a tough post then vanishes again rinse and repeat