Comments Thread For: Usyk Aims To Become Undisputed Champion at Heavyweight

[TheCell8]

If fat fuck Andy can win 3 belts, Usyk should definitely be able to.

Wilder will be his toughest fight due to the speed. His easiest would be Joshua, who has no balls anymore and might even lose to Pulev.

[kafkod]

Ahead on points is winning the fight in my book. Whether or not he was beginning to fade and Usyk was starting to pick him apart. He was winning up until he got knocked out.

He was fading and getting picked apart halfway through a 12 round fight by an opponent who was getting stronger and stronger every round... and you call that winning the fight?

So when did he start losing?

[JakeTheBoxer]

Fury kills him, Wilder and Joshua both beat him.

I see him having competitive fights with other top 10 guys.

[Happy Lora]

I don't really see the need for him to bulk up, as many are suggesting. He's naturally bigger than Holyfield was. His natural fighting weight is roughly what he boxed at vs Witherspoon, and he had little issue with the size difference there.

I think he should be able to beat any Heavy outside of Fury. He's more skilled, but the gap isn't as wide there as it is with most others, and the size difference is even bigger.

[boliodogs]

I don't think he will be the heavyweight champ unified or otherwise. I think he is good but not good enough. He is a good guy and a good champion so I hope he proves me wrong and becomes the unified heavyweight champ. Maybe he could do it. He has never lost a fight but heavyweight is harder than cruiserweight.

[Joeboxeo]

Usyk has a long road to do that...Very long road

[MaksBox]

Usyk is a gifted boxer but he is going to have a very tough time to do so in the reign of guys like Fury and AJ. Usyk has the same problem as Povetkin, another really gifted technical boxer.... they are too small. With Povetkin at least, he is bigger than Usyk and can hit. As far as we know, Usyk is not known as a puncher and we have yet to see how he takes a punch from a big HW.

I think Usyk would give Tyson Fury REAL issues, until Fury connects.... but guys like AJ and Wilder would hit Usyk once or twice and he is out.

[Happy Lora]

Usyk has the same problem as Povetkin, another really gifted technical boxer.... they are too small. With Povetkin at least, he is bigger than Usyk and can hit.

Usyk is taller and longer than Povetkin.

More to the point, the only fighter Povetkin couldn't handle in his prime was Wlad, the dominator of the era. Just as I think the only guy Usyk wouldn't be able to handle is Fury.

[Earl-Hickey]

Usyk is taller and longer than Povetkin.

More to the point, the only fighter Povetkin couldn't handle in his prime was Wlad, the dominator of the era. Just as I think the only guy Usyk wouldn't be able to handle is Fury.

He's taller and longer but he's not bigger, outside of arm reach and height I'm pretty sure povetkin would be bigger in every other measurement, he's a bigger human being than Usyk.

[Happy Lora]

He's taller and longer but he's not bigger, outside of arm reach and height I'm pretty sure povetkin would be bigger in every other measurement, he's a bigger human being than Usyk.

Thicker, sure. I'd like to know their shoulder width but can't be bothered looking it up right now. If Usyk holds the edge there as well then his frame is simply better suited for the modern Heavyweight division, regardless of the extra 10 pounds on Povetkin.

Not much in it either way, though, so it's not really a point I care to defend to the death. The main point was in my second paragraph, as I stated.