(04-12-2023, 06:16 PM)diehard Wrote: Also, Briedis gave him all he could handle. So is Usyk better suited fighting heavyweights, or it doesn't matter because he's improved since his cruiser days?
For me the jury is out on Usyk vs super heavyweights.
Joshua, to me looked very poor in his other fights around the time he fought Usyk.
I feel if Ruiz had stayed away from that fatty lamb and cous cous that he was hoovering up by the bucket load in Saudi (Steve bunce said before the fight happened that Ruiz Jr was pigging out at the Saudi buffets to a shocking level) , he would have beaten Joshua in the rematch too.
Vs Pulev Joshua looked lethargic and had to take half the fight off following an early barrage. And against Franklin he looked as poor as he ever has, he arguably hurt Usyk worse than he did Franklin.
Otherwise we have Usyk WSB win over Joyce, which had looked good until this weekend.
I still need to see more from Usyk. The AJ wins really dont impress me.l because I belive they were wins over a shot fighter who had the belts through luck and circumstance.
The problem with him and all the other heavyweights tbh is they barely fight, I feel there's a good amount of talent in the division
Fury
Usyk
Wilder
Zhang
AJ
Hrgovic
Javalov
Makhmudov
Parker
Ruiz jr
Sanchez
Anderson
Gassiev
That's a bloody decent list right there, bloody decent, it's a hell of a lot better than the division was when klitschko was ruling over it and half the top 10 was leftovers from the lennox Lewis era or blown up old cruiserweights
Yet we only see a scant handful of fights per year between them, where at least klitschko was active.