Comments Thread For: Joshua Believes Usyk Would Take Step-Aside To Allow Fury Fight

[mjh1969]

While the Joshua vs Fury is the biggest fight at the moment, I hate that Wilder's name is being left out the equation. I hope Wilder gets his third fight and the respect that is due to him providing he keeps his mouth shut and lets the whole scenario play out. Fury or Joshua would handle Usyk fairly easily and that fight should not be taken too seriously.

[DaNeutral.]

Lmao.. Wilder is about to brutally destroy Fury.. Or Fury will retire and go to wwe as a dehydrated Andre the giant! Attention AJ and all his fans.. "Wilder is coming for you." Go ahead and handle Usyk and we will handle Fury then we can pick back up where we left off.. 50/50 punk!! The same 50 you offered Fury! We want that! This is judgement day for AJ!!

LOL 3rd time lucky for Deontay then? What if he loses? Again? Will him and his crazy fans claim aliens ate his homework and we need a 4th fight so we can know for sure?

How about 5 beatings for Wilder? Or 6? Surely one time he gets his lucky windmill in. Keep running it back until Wilder gets lucky then we will know for sure he is the best.

[5000boxing]

Yeah right muppet, where is your bum king Wilder? He isn’t making any statement now but wait till AJ or Fury has fight signed then he would come out of the rock he been hiding to say everyone is ducking him...hilarious isn’t it? Wilder is a fraud, most Americans are appalled by his record of fighting cans.

What Americans? South Americans? Every fighter knows who the threat in the division is.. America knows it.. And You do too! Which is why u get so butthurt anytime some mentions Wilder.

[KingGilgamesh]

Intrigued that people think Usyk would be a cake walk.

I guess his last two performances weren't really much to write home about but I still see him being a pain in the ass for anyone who isn't fundamentally sound.

[hugh grant]

I keep thinking usyk and fury is the fight that needs cancelling to allow fury v Josh to go ahead? As Josh has seemed busier of late.
But yeh, usyk should allow Josh and fury to fight.
Usyk ideally wants to be facing the king.

[REDEEMER]

What Americans? South Americans? Every fighter knows who the threat in the division is.. America knows it.. And You do too! Which is why u get so butthurt anytime some mentions Wilder.

The number one threat to Wilder is Wilder himself.

[alexjust]

Let's suppose he does step aside, what are the scenarios then:
AJ fights Fury twice: June 2021 and Dec. 2021. It means that Usyk gets his chance in Spring 2022 the earliest.
He can't sit around for 18 months, he'll be fighting himself in 2021. If he wins - great. If not - he lost a massive payday and an opportunity at an undisputed HW title.
In 2022 all the bodies might start enforcing their mandatories, who is there to say that Usyk should or will get a priority?
Fury is unpredictable, suppose he beats AJ twice or at least the 2nd time they fight and decides to relinquish all the belts. Usyk loses an opportunity to fight for all the marbles and might only fight at best for a unification of WBO belt with someone else. It could be AJ, it could be not. If AJ - still will be a good payday, not as great though. If not - definitely much less.
Even if they offer him $2m to step aside, he needs to think if all these risks are worth it. Hearn will sweet talk him into this, but looking at this rationally, if I were his advisor I wouldn't have advised him to step aside. As a boxing fan - sure, AJ vs Fury is a much bigger fight, but being a fan of Usyk I'm still very interested in seeing how he'll fare against the elite level giants.

[KingGilgamesh]

I honestly can't see Usyk stepping aside easily if he has a modicum of common sense. Firstly this pandemic means that there will be no serious attempt at an undisputed fight even happening in the UK in the next 12 months. Secondly, I am starting to get the impression that Fury and Joshua need each other. Fury needs to keep his name fresh (he also needs time in the ring) and I think the mediation may start becoming a problem. I also think Joshua would have looked at the recent PPV numbers and clocked that a fight with even a strong contender like Usyk (who, for me, a win would remove any and all doubt about his pedigree) will be seen by casuals as not worth watching. And thats despite Usyk being the strongest fighter on paper he's faced since Wlad.

This reality means Usyk can, in truth, ask for more than many will feel he's entitled to. And, if he's not given it, then just push for Joshua to vacate and then end up in a title fight of his own against Joyce.

[Silver Spear]

Let's suppose he does step aside, what are the scenarios then:
AJ fights Fury twice: June 2021 and Dec. 2021. It means that Usyk gets his chance in Spring 2022 the earliest.
He can't sit around for 18 months, he'll be fighting himself in 2021. If he wins - great. If not - he lost a massive payday and an opportunity at an undisputed HW title.
In 2022 all the bodies might start enforcing their mandatories, who is there to say that Usyk should or will get a priority?
Fury is unpredictable, suppose he beats AJ twice or at least the 2nd time they fight and decides to relinquish all the belts. Usyk loses an opportunity to fight for all the marbles and might only fight at best for a unification of WBO belt with someone else. It could be AJ, it could be not. If AJ - still will be a good payday, not as great though. If not - definitely much less.
Even if they offer him $2m to step aside, he needs to think if all these risks are worth it. Hearn will sweet talk him into this, but looking at this rationally, if I were his advisor I wouldn't have advised him to step aside. As a boxing fan - sure, AJ vs Fury is a much bigger fight, but being a fan of Usyk I'm still very interested in seeing how he'll fare against the elite level giants.

One of the scenarios mentioned in the article was that Usyk allow Joshua and Fury fight for the WBO belt (along with the other belts) and immediately whoever wins relinquishes it then Usyk can fight for the vacant WBO belt as soon as a week after.

The problem I have with one of your scenarios is that Usyk has no claim or does not deserve to fight for all the belts. He is only the WBO mandatory. He is not the undisputed champs mandatory.

[Corelone]

Hearn doesn't give money away. Usyk can get step aside, if he doesn't ask for too much and signs a few options. Otherwise Hearn will just let AJ take him out.