Re: Lebedev Targets Usyk Mandatory Fight as Final Career Bout
Posted: 11 Dec 2018, 15:32
I'm against this fight now for 2 reasons. #1: they both are interesting fighters, who can make some noise at the top, and the loss to another one will probably drop a one of them out of the higher level competition for some time. #2: they both are natural CWs, they should fight natural HWs now, the big guys, they need to get used to such opponents, cause the today's HW leaders are behemoths.Deleted_Scenes wrote: ↑11 Dec 2018, 15:27If it's going to happen, it has to be now, imo. Assuming Usyk adjusts to the weight well, he's got two fights at most, before he needs to be looking at the top 5. Any longer than that would be disappointing, for someone of his talent.
The only way that changes, is if Hunter turns out to be a comfortable top 10 heavy. Where he is now (15-20) is the lowest I think Usyk should be aiming for, for a heavyweight debut. The division isn't deep enough to justify going any lower.