Comments Thread For: How High Will Usyk Ascend in His Heavyweight Adventure?

[CaptainWalrus]

One tune-up then a title shot. Who knows what happens at HW, but this will be the plan.

[Mick Higgs]

I though Usyk was the first mandatory fight for the Ruiz/AJ winner?

The Ruiz/Joshua winner will not fight again until next Summer & Usyk needs to be active. Who's also not to say that Ruiz/AJ might not become a trilogy.

[Dariusz]

Not higher than Adamek or any cruiser thinking about being better than HWs.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Only question is, can he take shots of heavyweights. He has superior skills. he is not too short, Ruiz is shorter than him.

Holyfield was a cruiserweight as well, but The real deal had a great power.

[Ray*]

I think they had to re-evaluate his opponent and they decided to be more careful in picking Takam as his first fight. They obviously learn from the Joshua-Ruiz fight. Do what Wilder and Fury does, fight some no name guy, a guy that has the looks and young enough to be “Hungry”. Don’t take unnecessary risks until you get to the point where you want to be.

[Ray*]

Only question is, can he take shots of heavyweights. He has superior skills. he is not too short, Ruiz is shorter than him.

Holyfield was a cruiserweight as well, but The real deal had a great power.

Hopefully he wouldn’t have to roid up like Holyfield, but nothing would shock me in that aspect when moving to HW.

[Kcvtr81]

Only question is, can he take shots of heavyweights. He has superior skills. he is not too short, Ruiz is shorter than him.

Holyfield was a cruiserweight as well, but The real deal had a great power.

Holyfield used gear so his anything is questionable

[Slowhand]

Only question is, can he take shots of heavyweights. He has superior skills. he is not too short, Ruiz is shorter than him.

Holyfield was a cruiserweight as well, but The real deal had a great power.

Evan was a great boxer, but if we got Usyk on the same stuff Evan was.. he´d be a ripped 225 lbs murderer. - I think Usyk´s chin is solid, but he might have to sit on his punches a bit more to make the big boys respect his power.

[Cutthroat]

Adamek too & I'm not convinced Usyk is all that better. The way people talk about Usyk is he's some unbeatable beast, in reality he was getting out boxed by Bellew & had a very close bout with Briedis. A lot of people are in for a rude awakening.

[Cutthroat]

Usyk already beat Joyce convincingly in the world series amateur competition

That was years and years ago, that version of Joyce probably wouldn't even break top 50 in the pros and even now he can barely beat a shot Jennings or even hurt him for that matter so you can imagine how much worse he used to be.