SportsRatings wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025, 02:06
I hope Usyk does not fight Fury or Joshua next
His last six fights are Furyx2, JoshuaX2, DuboisX2
Time for someone new. Not Chisora either wtf, how does he keep getting title shots?
Parker is the only pick.
That makes the most sense from a sporting angle.
However maybe not best from a business angle.
Hence, we saw Dubois avoid Parker and fight Usyk instead.
Since Usyk was happy to accept a unification fight, and with all the belts on the line and vastly more money on offer, how many would blame Dubois?
Boxing is primarily a business, ask anyone.
Ask Jake Paul.
As for Chisora being next, that's unlikely to happen but let's not overlook the fact that Chisora is genuinely liked by many boxing people.
Derek's persona is colourful, outspoken and unlike some others, a warrior in the ring. For example Lerena's 10 round 'performance' against Okolie last night was the unsatisfying dialled-in kind that fans don't care for. Lerena's 'fight' against Dubois also didn't do his or boxings reputation much good either.
Chisora on the other hand impressively ground out unlikely wins against Joyce and Wallin through sheer grit.
Chisora is also likely to tell it like it is, and people like Usyk prefer this 'what you see is what you get' style to the sly doublespeak that you usually see in boxing and most workplaces.
[Luke Partridge is probably boxings best example of this deceptive diarrhea where nothing he spews is believable to all but the most gullible and naive].
Derek Chisora understands all this, after all he's a friend / business associate of Fury's, but that's not his style.
Take his immediate interview after last nights fight with Secondsout for example.
"Chisora – who
most feel gave Usyk his toughest heavyweight test back in 2020 – said of his countryman: ‘he quit,’ something he was accused of in Poland during their first fight.
“He quit. He quit again … Yeah, man, he quit. I don’t understand. They were supposed to train different. They did not. It was set for him to win it.”
“I tell you when he quit. He quit when he walked in the ring, because he did not use his double jab. He did not hunt the way he was hunting AJ. We came to see him go nuts. He didn’t go nuts, he was holding back. Everybody was there for Daniel, do you understand? It was his to win.”
Anyway, it should be Parker next, but it's not easy to get overexcited about a Parker v Usyk clash that might turn out be rerun of 2018s Parker v Joshua.
Usyk actually put out the question of his next opponent to the fans last night but it was difficult to gauge their reaction.
I'd prefer it if he retired but of course it's always going to be hard to say no to another potential £100 million.
As for all this disrespectful crap about Usyk possibly being amongst the greatest HWs of all time, the question of 'possibly' was surely passed a long time ago?
