Comments Thread For: Who should be next for Oleksandr Usyk? BoxingScenes team weighs in

[daggum]

It's amazing how many people still don't know how a low blow is defined. It hit his friggin cup, FFS. His shorts were below the navel which defines the low blow line. The only reason this "controversy" exists is that people like to hate Usyk and don't understand the rules. Dubois is going to get a lesson from Parker, and that's the next fight to make, but if he beats Parker in style, I'm down for him to get his reminder from Usyk again. Dubois hit Usyk with something like 12 low blows before the one in question.

maybe they watched ward kovalev 2? thats quite the rollercoaster

[remmy0112]

It's shameful that Parker hasn't gotten a title shot yet. If be beats Dubois, he should definitely be next, but that may not be an attractive enough opponent to get Usyk to stick around.

Parker might not be but the IBF belt he'd be holding and 3x undisputed status would probably be incentive enough for him to sign the contract and finally give parker his well deserved shot at undisputed, even if he stands no real chance of beating Usyk (assuming usyks age doesn't catch up to him before they fight). Personally I only want to see him fight no more than 1 or 2 more fights, like a lot of other readers have mentioned I don't want to see him get k.o'd badly by some young gun when he eventually starts slowing down.

[Goatintheboat]

He now has the experience of getting his ears boxed off by Usyk. I dunno how much good is confidence gonna bring him when he lacks the skills and gets hit by everything his opponent throws at him. Sounds more like Tyson vs McNeeley type of thing than a real test.

Parker is a real test for Dubois. Fast hands, good chin, lots of experience against top opposition and ability to execute a gameplan.

Parker has done brilliantly to reignite his career. It could be a test. Or Dubois walks through him and sends him back home

[hugh grant]

Usyk can fight all who might best fury or josh. The zhangs, bakole, Parker ,ajit. Then usyk can be no1 heavyweight ever.
Beating these guys in your late 30s id say usyk is goat candidate

[Marchegiano]

Some really, really, inspired and insightful responses.

Danny, Danny, the winner of Danny and Joe, Joe if he wins, Danny, Danny, I don't like WWE but it's Danny ... ... ... ... ... ... ... I like the new writing staff quite a lot to be honest. Whoever did this, it's a good idea, but when you get absolutely no variety in your response ask someone else until you do and edit the final piece accordingly and if no one does scrap the damn thing.

TF is the point of naming every staff writer who had some form of "I'd like the uni champ to fight the single strap holder" to say? Boring af with less range than the posters who comment on it.


Usyk drops down to LHW fights Canelo. Sound ******? yeah bet it does, less ****ing boring than reading IBF doe twenty times over.

[IronDanHamza]

The Dubois-Parker winner makes sense.

Regain the belt he lost, if Parker wins it’s a new opponent.

If Dubois wins there is a narrative. Dubois been on a tear since the Usyk loss, seems like a “new man”. The low blow controversy.

Or just retire. But don’t think he will.

[factsarenice]

At the end of Tyson Fury's career, whether he steps down graciously or not, there is one axiom that is inescapable. The trilogy that Tyson fought with Deontay Wilder took almost everything out of those two men. Both warriors left everything in that ring in those three fights. Neither man was ever the same again and began to lose bouts to lesser fighters afterward. It drained both men, both GREAT heavyweights, and there was never going back to the Tyson Fury or the Deontay Wilder before that trilogy for either man. Those two men gave us the greatest boxing trilogy in the history of the sport, they are true gladiators and in our Colosseum, which is the ring, they DID entertain us. Oleksandr Usyk will never be able to say that. "America Speaks Ink"

True...Wilder vs Fury was great entertainment like Gatti vs Ward.... but they got smoked when they stepped up and Floyd like Usyk will never be able to say that. Amiright?

[factsarenice]

For fu<k sake the IBF knew Fury/Usyk had a rematch, took their cut away, then stole the belt back.... for not breaking the contract?

In what parallel universe does this blatant stab in the back make scene?

On principle alone, I'd tell the classless simpleton that jumped into the ring 3 seconds after the bell.... to shove that emailed POS belt up his azz.

Namsayin?

[crimsonfalcon07]

maybe they watched ward kovalev 2? thats quite the rollercoaster

TBH, I suspect it has a lot to do with just hearing "the beltline" so often, even though the beltline doesn't actually define a low blow because it can be worn in all different places, such as under the armpits like Tyson Fury.

Similarly, you get so many people who, wrongly, take the saying "to be the champ you have to beat the champ" to mean that you have to beat the champ by knockout or wide decision, and then sanction disgusting corrupt A-side scorecards because of that. In reality, of course, it merely means that the champ retains in the case of a tie; you actually have to win the fight to win the belt, even if that's by controversial split decision, as has happened frequently, even for ATG's.

Both narratives are really annoying though.

[Stuntman Mike]

At the end of Tyson Fury's career, whether he steps down graciously or not, there is one axiom that is inescapable. The trilogy that Tyson fought with Deontay Wilder took almost everything out of those two men. Both warriors left everything in that ring in those three fights. Neither man was ever the same again and began to lose bouts to lesser fighters afterward. It drained both men, both GREAT heavyweights, and there was never going back to the Tyson Fury or the Deontay Wilder before that trilogy for either man. Those two men gave us the greatest boxing trilogy in the history of the sport, they are true gladiators and in our Colosseum, which is the ring, they DID entertain us. Oleksandr Usyk will never be able to say that. "America Speaks Ink"

what a moron