Oleksandr Usyk has had a small taste of things to anticipate from play — accidents, insanity, pull-outs, the heavyweight division, whispers and rumours. His punchs thrown.
Tonight this cruiserweights king has real in his partnership, and he will soon learn that life in the airport is different to anything planet he has conquered.
He will be hit harder than he could prepare for, mauled by harder and thicker guys he has met before. After he lands his own thoughts? They may stare back at himasking for much more.
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Chazz Witherspoon should be no game for Usyk but already the questions and the doubts have been pouring in. This is exactly what the division is about, and that is what Usyk has signed up for.
Its been a rocky road to get there at Chicago from the ring together using Witherspoon. A bicep injury delayed a scheduled introduction in the branch against Carlos Takam afterward, this week, rival Tyrone Spong was withdrawn after returningadverse findings at a drug evaluation. Usyk must continue to keep his head screwed on as brand new body after fresh body stands him outside.
The division, in which Usyk scooped the World Boxing Super Series championship and every significant championship, was filled with sharks that had teeth than their reservations indicated. Krzysztof Glowacki, Mairis Breidis and murat Gassiev arent superstars with glitzy entourages however they had been world champions, the kind you might prevent without anyone really noticing. Usyk toured Europe and overcome them – Riga, Moscow, Gdansk. Where next? He pumped Tony Bellew on his debut out.
These nighttime hardened built and Usyk the aura that surrounds him of a southpaw who drowns opponents that doubles up as dancing entertainer having a grin and eyes that stare a hole.
But at heavyweight he needs to cope with more. Even heavier compared to the competitions is the weight of expectancy.
Deontay Wilder said concerning Anthony Joshua:Theres more pressure on him. While I talk about his scenario I feel tired.
Elsewhere Derek Chisora is switching tables and rivals can be lulled by Tyson Furys friendly outside to a false sense of safety. Andy Ruiz Jr coaxed Joshua to letting him touch the title straps before their fight -in hindsight, Joshua later confessed , he shouldnt have done .
All these are real difficulties in Usyks new division which he might have to deal with.
He will develop into a heavyweight the likes of that doesnt currently exist.
His defence has become the most significant matter as a cruiserweight moving up to heavyweight, said David Haye, among just two men to be a world champion in both divisions.
A bigger heavyweight can simply impose his strength if he is able to land . If he cant soil, it does not make a difference.
Former foe Bellew included:Pinning him down was challenging due his footwork was on another level. Any time I tried to make a fight of this, he had been too evasive.
WBC winner Wilder, clearly, has began the derision of Usyk:He is too tiny. Hes no danger to me.
He is already the mandatory challenger to the WBO belt, that next year, Ruiz Jr and Joshua will competition, and expects to battle the winner. Usyk will be known about by the winner if he expands his record to an 17 fights.
Victory alone isnt always enough in the division, and this is a huge lesson that Usyk will find out. Jabs which come after the bell, frequently thrown by future competitions always accompany it. The big question that looms about Usyk: can he punch? Tonight is about emphatically answering that.
The boxing world is itching to understand if he can walk into the territory of the Indians, if Usyk can compete at the top of the division. Concerning skill the real economists who will even start to rival him that score is Fury.
The Allied is astrike and do not get hit fighter and that he needs to stay like that. Hell have to keep the speed and movement which has made him hard to hit.
Hell also have to be able to reach hard enough to halt the men in the division. The simple fact that he was willing to get in with Takam on introduction in May before the Circuit accident scuppered the fight, indicates he and his staff dont have any concerns on either score. However, well have to see proof with our own eyes.
Witherspoon can be totally outboxed by usyk however there is a 12 round exhibition not what people may wish to view tonight, theyll want to watch Usyk win by stoppage and show us a electricity. If he can not do this then questions will be asked.
However, in regards to Witherspoon, who won whose three defeats have come against fighters in Tony Thompson Chris Arreola and Seth Mitchell and National Golden Gloves as an amateur, it is difficult to see him lasting. Those fights came in 2008, 2009 and 2012 and he is only boxed eight occasions since Mitchell beat him 2012. Hes won them the resistance has been light years away from what hell face tonight.
In 32 Usyk has time but he is not going to accept it. It is possible he could even go into a world title fight in his second fight. His intention is to become the worlds number 1 heavyweight; he wouldnt be stepping up were he not convinced that he can achieve that.
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