Predictions ? Got a fancy for Dubois to stop Usyk tonight. Gonna be a big ask, but something tells me he’s gonna do it.
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Predictions ? Got a fancy for Dubois to stop Usyk tonight. Gonna be a big ask, but something tells me he’s gonna do it.
He’s got a punchers chance but I think Usyk is too smartQuote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
I thought this was about a Welsh League game.
I honestly think that Dubois could stop him.
Usyk typically gets better through fights and he has to be a big favourite if the odds made sense though….I would have a bet on Dubois.
I really like both fighters and it’s one of those that I’d like both to win.
Me too but my gut feeling is Usyk to winQuote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Usyk takes control from round five and stops him late
Usyk wide points or late stoppage.
That would be Usk v DenbighQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
Time waits for no man. For the first time, Michael Buffer looking like an old man. Still got his stage presence and voice, but looking frail.
Usyk knocks him out, round 5, Dubois all over the shop at the end.
Usyk just too quick, and too clever .
Can see him retiring unbeaten.
Dubois just couldn’t live with him.
What a left hook, shook Dubois to his boots.
What a boxer clever as hell
WTF was I thinking??Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Usyk is just sublime!
I am certain he can live with all the all time greats. Maybe Lennox would give him his hardest fight.
He just seems so much more comfortable at the weight and carries the power with it too.
Unbelievable boxer.
I can see Usyk having his last ever fight against Moses Itauma.
That will hopefully be the handing over of the baton.
Usyk is such an intelligent boxer, you so rarely see him in any trouble, I can't see any heavyweight around right now beating him. Parker really deserves a shot though.
Or stops him in round five. I didn’t expect him to get the job done so early. Where was the chaos that Dubois promised? Usyk is just too good, it’s scary. He may as well retire now as no current heavyweight gets close to him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Underhill1980
One of the greats.
Usyk is clearly way above everybody in this era which less face it is really weak.
He should retire. Nothing to prove.
There is absolutely no threat to him whatsoever. Only father time will catch up.
Rocky Marciano the only heavy-weight to retire undefeated so it would be a hell of an achievement! He's absolutely a generational talent but the heavy-weight division is really poor at the moment and so through no fault of his own it's hard to see just how good he really is. But last nights display was absolutely brutal.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
Agreed about Parker but he has no chance of beating him. Usyk comfortably on points or late stoppageQuote:
Originally Posted by Sparticus_Mills
Although undefeated, It’s often said that Marciano was strategically managed in order to keep that record. I think he only had 6 or 7 world title fights, in contrast Ali defended his 19 times. When I was a kid it seemed as though Clay/Ali was fighting every 6 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhyllisStant
there was definitely chaos, but it was all in Dubois corner.. his father shouting orders and just the general overall 'game plan'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Underhill1980
Yeah, what is it with British fighters and fathers that they and steal the limelight?Quote:
Originally Posted by Splott-light...
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Dopey Daniel and his idiotic team thought they could get under Usyks skin in the build up. At one stage it was the Don Charles show, never seen a trainer with so much to say and why they kept giving air time to his son I don’t know.
Usyk is the people’s champ. What an ambassador for the sport of boxing and sports in general. Class in and out of the ring.
Can’t wait for Simon Jordan to eat some more humble pie tomorrow. Makes out he’s some kind of boxing oracle but yet another big fight prediction he’s got wrong.
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Originally Posted by J R Hartley
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Originally Posted by jeepster
Dubois has the punch to take anyone out. He just didn’t have the nous, speed or gameplan to take advantage of it. I really thought he was gonna do some damage last night, but he proved to be a damp squib,Quote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
Usyk is proving to be really special. It’s always impossible to compare sportsmen from different eras, so it’s impossible to compare him with great heavyweights of the past.
The best way to describe him, is he’s already one of the all time greats.
Being unable to speak English must be the prerequisite for joining his team.Quote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
I really wanted DD to beat Joshua and it was a career defining performance but it clearly went to his head and since then I don’t know what his promoter and team are playing at. Trying to create this broody character out of someone who is clearly on the spectrum and has no personality was never going to work.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
In the last face off he actually looked scared and I don’t think he believed he could win. He tried to play mind games when he hasn’t got the smarts to do it and end up getting in his own head.
I liked that Usyk had no words of consolation for him this time. He tried to be a gentleman after the first fight and then had it thrown back in his face, so good on him for offering nothing this time.
It was certainly odd behavior as Dubois usually comes across as a nice lad.Quote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
His old man is batshit, but I think it was an act with Daniel.
I hope it was an act at least as I do like him.
I think Usyk did offer some consolation after the fight but it certainly wasn’t as animated as usual.
Social Media is full of folk saying Dubois quit again. That punch would put have put Oliver McCall down. Mad to see Usyk carrying heavyweight power now in addition to his technique and movement.
Made me laugh when he introduced Ivan to the press
Haha yeah you could see he lined that up and put everything behind itQuote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
Usyk the best around in this era. He’s destroyed the division, and he’s smaller than all of them. But I can’t see him living with your Ali’s Foreman’s and Fraziers. I don’t think he beats Tyson (prime) or Lewis. Could be wrong though..
[QUOTE=William Treseder;5601174]Dubois has the punch to take anyone out. He just didn’t have the nous, speed or gameplan to take advantage of it. I really thought he was gonna do some damage last night, but he proved to be a damp squid,
Just correcting it for you. :hehe:
is it?! People are mad, he was still rocked from the first one, his legs fully went with the second oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
Carl Froch has a video out asking if he quit.
I’ve not watched that yet.
I think it’s unfair that he has this reputation.
Joe Joyce, F’d up his eye socket.
The first fight with Usyk, he stayed down after a hard jab…maybe could have dug a little deeper but who knows?
Saturday, he had his clock cleaned by an excellent punch and as you said, he was likely reeling from the first knock down, in which he was caught at the back of his head in the combination that sent him down.