Which elite fighter performed the best last night.

[Scopedog]

Having at least seen highlights of all three, I'd say:

Inherent value of the accomplishment: Usyk
Most complete performance: Inoue
Most spectacular finish: Davis

If you were to force me to rank them, I'd say Inoue, then Tank, then Usyk. All three showed elite level quality though, great night of boxing all round.

[Mammoth]

Leo is a better opponent than Maloney was, right?

Leo is a featherweight

[The Big Dunn]

Leo is a featherweight

Leo has been at SFW for a while. the fight was at 130, not 135.

You didn’t answer the question. Leo is a much better opponent than Maloney.

Maloney was completely overmatched. Leo was doing well and made a mistake and got caught.

Come on man. It’s fine if you don’t like Tank or have criticism about his resume but beating Leo at 130 is significantly better than beating Maloney at BW.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Inoue.

Davis is not elite. Usyk is not a heavyweight.

Is Davis elite? Last night was probably his best win and it was against an overmatched opponent in terms of size.

Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s really talented and think he could do great things but I’ll reserve the status of elite until he has better wins on a more level playing field. At least the other two entered the WBSS which doesn’t allow you to pick and choose fights and has very solid competition.


Either way I will say Tank probably did the best because he had the best opponent , even if the opponent was a bit undersized. Santa Cruz has been a proven world champion.

You could probably argue he hasn’t proven he is elite based on resume.

But based on talent Tank is definitely an elite fighter IMO.

[Roadblock]

Tank was the most spectacular and had to adapt different things to get inside for the KO, gee Davis is small.

Inoue boxed the cleanest his opponent was out classed.

I didnt see Ursk.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

All the elite fighters were expected to win. The odds on all of the fights weren't even close.

So not sure why we should care about performances as they all did what they were supposed to do, and heavily-favored to do.

If that was the case, we wouldn’t bother watching 90% of fights.

[Mammoth]

Leo has been at SFW for a while. the fight was at 130, not 135.

You didn’t answer the question. Leo is a much better opponent than Maloney.

Maloney was completely overmatched. Leo was doing well and made a mistake and got caught.

Come on man. It’s fine if you don’t like Tank or have criticism about his resume but beating Leo at 130 is significantly better than beating Maloney at BW.

Leo had one fight at 130 against Miguel Flores. Leo was never established at the weight and most likely cannot accomplish anything at the weight.

Beating Leo at 130 is like beating Khan or Brook at 160 or 155. Means very little....

[Mammoth]

But yeah Maloney is a far more credible opponent tbh.

[Tails]

Inoue was the most impressive because he is still hitting the checkmarks in each weight class so far stopping pretty much everyone which is a big expectation to have. If he continues to dominate he will have to move up again to get another true challenge.

Usyk still leaves a lot to be desired but I was 2nd most impressed with him. He did not overperform of underperform. He just sort of performed. But he is challenging himself against an experienced often durable heavyweight in Chisora. Chisora himself is still levels below the top three but Usyk is at least showing he is may just a level right below them at the moment probably hovering close to the top 10 heavyweights at the moment.

Gervonta still leaves a lot to be desired in a way. He got the brutal stoppage of Santa Cruz who at the lower weights has been a great fighter but not entirely heads and shoulders above everyone. Had Gervonta not gotten the stoppage it would have been a not so good look as Gervonta is a talented heavy handed 130 pounder. Davis is stuck in that weird situation where he is likely going to be heavily favored against any 130 lb boxer. So in order to impress he is going to have venture out against some of the tougher competition at 135 unfortunately.

[The Big Dunn]

Leo had one fight at 130 against Miguel Flores. Leo was never established at the weight and most likely cannot accomplish anything at the weight.

Beating Leo at 130 is like beating Khan or Brook at 160 or 155. Means very little....

Agree to disagree on what the win means.

Khan and break never fought at those weights. Leo had.

Just clarifying that Leo at 130, even given what you posted, is still a much better opponent than Maloney at BW.

Inoue is a better fighter than Tank.

Given these I can’t see how beating Maloney is a better performance than beating Leo.