Bellew v Usyk

[palmerq]

I give Bellew some credit for his bravery, and definitely for being able to promote and build up very average matchups. The guy can talk, and he can annoy people ..... which sells tickets and PPV.

Definitely overachieved in his career.

However, in this fight, it went like this;

Bellew spends two rounds skirting the ropes, trying to draw the Southpaw Usyk onto a big straight right counter. Usyk has seen many fighters doing this standard tactic and just refuses to play ball.

Next two rounds are Usyk gets the jab going and starts to break Bellow down with hurtful right hooks.

Next two rounds, Usyk pressures Bellew constantly giving him no respite or time to take a sneaky break. He cuts off the ring, very smart footwork, and the sheer volume of accurate punches knocks the stuffing out of Bellew ..... who is only trying to survive at this point.

7 and 8 are as one sided as you are going to see at top level. Bellew just has the shit beaten out of him.

I think you're right on, usyk clearly had a plan to avoid anything big early on and let bellew waste energy running around the ring and hitting usyks gloves. Once bellew started to tire usyk started fighting and started bashing him the last two rounds.... Good plan and worked perfectly, bit risky though to do it it such a loud atmosphere, he was quite far behind on one scorecard but really after around half of the fight the results wasnt in doubt. Good work from usyk

[Master]

[Master]

Former world champion turned pundit Carl Froch has come in for some heated criticism from a lot of fans online after his scorecards this weekend in Bellew vs Usyk.

Working as a pundit for Sky Sports Froch had predicted a Bellew win coming into the fight.

While Tony was ahead on two of the official scorecards, Froch in the view of many fans had it too far wide all together in his favour.

https://www.boxingnewsandviews.com/2...syk-scorecard/

Ultimately scorecards didn’t count from anyone in the end as Usyk landed the perfect shot to stop the fight.

But as always in boxing, fans like to debate scorecards whatever the outcome of the fight is.

[Master]

[TitoFan]

Bellew - "He's (Usyk) not the biggest puncher."



Wow..... good thing I guess.

[Freedom]

[Batman]

Has anyone seen the picture that Crolla posted of his piss test?
Pretty scary stuff, makes you realise what they put themselves through.