The 2nd Anthony Joshua V Andy Ruiz Fight Tonight.

[mickey finn]

On 08/12/2019 at 21:30, geared said:

 

His debut fight was not very impressive, struggled with power even when he pretty much had free reign to land shots.

The opponent had no business being in a ring, he was just woeful and clearly at career end.

 

To be fair Witherspoon was Usyks way of dipping his toe in the water, a few more fights at heavy and we will know what he is capable of, Joshua is already bigging up the Usyk fight but will have none of it with Fury or Wilder.

[geared]

Yea you do seem to need a gimmie fight when stepping up.

Bellew was the same, he looked terrible the first fight against Haye, but come back a few months later and he looked every bit the heavyweight boxer.

 

Usyk needs far more power though, will have to wait and see if he can add the extra muscle without losing in other departments.

I feel the step up between a mobile punching bag like Witherspoon and the heavyweight champion might be too much though.

Edited December 10, 2019 by geared

[spider1]

There are weight classes for a reason you cant expect boxers like usk to keep fighters like wilder off them for 12 rounds. Plenty more  top heavyweights  will  stop usk he is only in it for the money reason he stepped up make him fight some of them first be fair 

19 hours ago, geared said:

Michael Hunter looked pretty decent, I hope he gets some decent fights in the future.  Perhaps he needs a re-match with Povetkin next year, get that victory under his belt and challenge someone in the top 5?

 

For sure the drug investigation was hanging over Whyte, it shows quite how sloppy UKAD are.  The same body took ages over the Fury case as well, I think that was well over a year?

 

Fury vs Wilder 2 is looking likely for early next year, pity it will be over in the states again.

Hunter won that fight easy disgusting decition  / Like to see Povetkin fight Usk but they will keep Usk away from him far to big 

Edited December 10, 2019 by spider1

[mickey finn]

All very valid points fellas, Usyk is too small to contend with the big boys I think, still it would be interesting to see him have a go.

[geared]

He's the WBO contender and they're pushing him as a mandatory.  Pualev is the IBO contender, has been some talk that he will fight Joshua next as Wilder/Fury are supposedly tied up already.

 

The WBA need to sort their regular belt out, Charr has held it since 2017 and not made a single defence.

It'd be good to see someone like Trevor Bryan or Adam Kownacki get a shot, neither are particularly big names but they've got a decent record.