Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tony Bellew - 10 November 2018

[Ruthless-RKO]

Another PPV, thats a long list of fights on PPV coming up , twenty quid a touch is going to mount up

Some PPV's shouldn't even be £20.. like this one or the Whyte-Parker.. Should be like £15..

More people will buy.. still means more money.

Hmmm, I do wonder sometimes. I would have bought far more PPVs if they were £10 rather than £20. I’m sure there’s quite a few events which would have actually netted more money if they’d been priced more sensibly.

Surely, if PPV prices were lower, more people would buy. The revenue might be same tbf, but more people would then enjoy it.

I'm like what you said, if I could pay £10 for a Joshua-Parker or even Whyte-Parker, then I would buy it instead of streaming it. at £20, it's a definite no.

[ElJefe]

Bellew wins this easily

Disagree with you mate think he gets his played with meself. Fair play to Bellew though I didn't think he really wanted it

He doesn't. But he's already said it's his last fight.
A loss to Usyk will not hurt him and he's quids in. A win, he'll be down in record books.

I'm not sure how anyone can say he didn't want it when he's literally just taken it. Would he be doing this if it wasn't his last fight? Maybe. Maybe not. But he's openly said he'd fight Usyk for all the belts and now he's fighting Usyk for all the belts. He clearly wants this fight.

[mickey1975]

The Boomer has eclipsed all of his very own predictions on this very forum for himself. It’s incredible, really, it really is.

[Noxy]

I reckon Bellew pulls this off.

[jamamb]

I reckon Bellew pulls this off.

tells how he does it mate

[Noxy]

I reckon Bellew pulls this off.

tells how he does it mate

Aye, fair question. On paper he doesn’t. I just think he rips up the formbook, or has the X factor. There’s something about him now and I don’t see Usyk changing it. Plus it’s in Manchester of course.

[jamamb]

i see what you mean

although tbf, as much as ppl can say bellew has that x factor and overcomes the odds, they can also say that usyk always so far proves the odds right and goes in and beats guys in there own backyard...russia, latvia, germany, poland, usa.....can he make it uk too?

will be interesting, im excited for it

[Noxy]

i see what you mean

although tbf, as much as ppl can say bellew has that x factor and overcomes the odds, they can also say that usyk always so far proves the odds right

will be interesting, im excited for it

Me and all, I’m really chuffed about this one. I was hoping this fight would come off. That’s one good thing about fast car, he normally delivers the big fights.

[gilgamesh]

I reckon Bellew pulls this off.

tells how he does it mate

Aye, fair question. On paper he doesn’t. I just think he rips up the formbook, or has the X factor. There’s something about him now and I don’t see Usyk changing it. Plus it’s in Manchester of course.

Usyk is better than him in every conceivable way. He'll be lucky to win 2 rounds. Let alone the fight.

[Noxy]

tells how he does it mate

Aye, fair question. On paper he doesn’t. I just think he rips up the formbook, or has the X factor. There’s something about him now and I don’t see Usyk changing it. Plus it’s in Manchester of course.

Usyk is better than him in every conceivable way. He'll be lucky to win 2 rounds. Let alone the fight.

Quite possibly, I‘ve just seen an interview with Tony. He basically said the same so, says he, he has to stop Usyk. That’s part of what makes me lean towards him, that bloodymindedness. I can see Usyk doing the business (but still say Bellew). I don’t agree it’s an easy fight for either of them.

[jamamb]

tells how he does it mate

Aye, fair question. On paper he doesn’t. I just think he rips up the formbook, or has the X factor. There’s something about him now and I don’t see Usyk changing it. Plus it’s in Manchester of course.

Usyk is better than him in every conceivable way. He'll be lucky to win 2 rounds. Let alone the fight.

id say bellew is a better puncher, although usyk defo a better skilled boxer , has stamina for days, and much much fresher then david haye was

[gilgamesh]

Aye, fair question. On paper he doesn’t. I just think he rips up the formbook, or has the X factor. There’s something about him now and I don’t see Usyk changing it. Plus it’s in Manchester of course.

Usyk is better than him in every conceivable way. He'll be lucky to win 2 rounds. Let alone the fight.

id say bellew is a better puncher, although usyk defo a better skilled boxer , has stamina for days, and much much fresher then david haye was

He's better than David Haye EVER was. Let alone the shell of him that Tony beat. Tony may well be the bigger puncher of the two, but I don't think he's as big a puncher as Gassiev, and Usyk handled him just fine.

I like Tony, and would like to see him make a competitive fight of it, but I don't give him much of a shot. Nevertheless it's another big name for Usyk to conquer.

After this, other than maybe Lebedev I don't see any reason why Usyk shouldn't just make the jump to Heavyweight. He's clearly proven he's the boss at Cruiserweight, and with a win over Bellew and Lebedev he will have essentially cleaned out the division.

Unless some want to see him fight Dorticos I guess, but I don't see why he'd bother with that when he's got bigger fish to fry, and bigger checks to cash.

[jamamb]

true, although i do think bellews a bit less predictable and one paced in his offense then gassiev, even though i think gassiev would prob be too strong for him head to head. like, i can see bellew surprising usyk with a counter shot and being more spontaneous more so then gass did. belllew imo may be more of a briedes then a gassiev in term of the problems he can cause usyk, although i do expect usyk to beat bellew easier then he beat briedies

but i do think its a very good fight and i dont completely rule bellew out even though it seems usyk should win

[leejonesjnr]

i dont completely rule bellew out even though it seems usyk should win

I would agree that it is beyond plausible that Bellew could win.
He obviously can't win a world title, headline a PPV or beat David Haye so whilst one would expect Usyk to win without breaking a sweat, Bellew may have yet another stroke of good fortune.

[Ruthless-RKO]

[Ruthless-RKO]

[keithmoonhangover]

I'll bet any of you gentlemen £1,000 that Usyk wins. No way Bellew can win this.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Fury tweeted:

"Big respect to @TonyBellew for taking the @usykaa fight real ballsy move. a lot bigger balls than his team mate!!! I hope he wins."

[keithmoonhangover]

Fury tweeted:

"Big respect to @TonyBellew for taking the @usykaa fight real ballsy move. a lot bigger balls than his team mate!!! I hope he wins."

Fury rejected the Bellew fight, where were his balls then?

[jamamb]

can anyone help me with past odds for bellew fights. lots of talk about how he always proves everyone wrong etc, so i want to take a look at what the odds actually were

just off the top of my head, id assume

3 wins as dog, 2 losses as dog, 1 time failed to win as favoyrite:

big underdog: vs haye and vs steve (beat one of them and lost to one of them)

moderate underdog: makabu (won)

small underdog: clev 1 (lost)

favourite: all other fights (all wins except chilemba 1)

ive seen some ppl say he was underdog vs clev in the rematch, but from a quick search most odds i found had bellew as a slight favourite. tbf, as a cruiser is 3-0 as dog, but then again usyk is 15-0 as fav.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Tony Bellew discusses Oleksandr Usyk on
@talkSPORT:

“He has everything in his game. I’d say the only thing he lacks is that one, big dynamite punch. The one thing he lacks is the one thing that I have... If my left hook hits him on the whiskers, he’s hitting the floor."

[Shrewd_Dude]

can anyone help me with past odds for bellew fights. lots of talk about how he always proves everyone wrong etc, so i want to take a look at what the odds actually were

just off the top of my head, id assume

3 wins as dog, 2 losses as dog, 1 time failed to win as favoyrite:

big underdog: vs haye and vs steve (beat one of them and lost to one of them)

moderate underdog: makabu (won)

small underdog: clev 1 (lost)

favourite: all other fights (all wins except chilemba 1)

ive seen some ppl say he was underdog vs clev in the rematch, but from a quick search most odds i found had bellew as a slight favourite. tbf, as a cruiser is 3-0 as dog, but then again usyk is 15-0 as fav.

He was about 5/1 in first fight with Haye. About 9/4-5/2 2nd fight. He was about 6/4 in Makubu fight. About as an underdog as Canelo is tonight. Bellew Clev 2 was pretty 50/50 fight with either one 5/6-10/11 with some bookies and flip flopping favs on Betfair at times.

[Counter-puncher]

Tony Bellew discusses Oleksandr Usyk on
@talkSPORT:

“He has everything in his game. I’d say the only thing he lacks is that one, big dynamite punch. The one thing he lacks is the one thing that I have... If my left hook hits him on the whiskers, he’s hitting the floor."

[Shirow]

I see this as nothing less than marketing for Usyk. He could use a stoppage win too and the with the gulf in class being so wide and the natural size advantage I expect Usyk to get it and set up his ancipated run at HW with Hearn cultivating him into an AJ opponent for 2019/2020.

[lillywhite14]

Building the AJ fight, makes sense. It’ll be Whyte/Chisora after Bellew.

It’ll be good to see Uysk over here for a bit.