Can you see any of the top Cruiserweights having success at HW?

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Usyk
Gassiev
Briedis
Glowacki
Dorticos.

Can you see any of these guys at HW. If so, any success? Usually
 
Gassiev and Usyk would beat anybody other than Joshua or Wilder IMO, and might even be able to beat Wilder. Briedis and Dorticos would be top 10. Glowacki might be top ten depending on who he faces.
 
Povetkin is still top5 at HW and Huck who IMO never was a great CW put him in big trouble.

Glowacki is a great fighter but I don't see him winning a world title again. He looked awful in his last fight against an Ukrainian who took the fight on late notice. Survived a stoppage loss somehow.

Briedis I think already has a KO over Charr and I've seen Usyk at HW against Joyce when someone in this forum posted it. I don't think they can take the power of Joshua or Wilder. But they can make it a fight with anyone else since HW is shallow af.

I see Gassiev doing better than anyone. He is basically Joe Parker with KO power.
 
ironfist05 said:
Gassiev and Usyk would beat anybody other than Joshua or Wilder IMO, and might even be able to beat Wilder. Briedis and Dorticos would be top 10. Glowacki might be top ten depending on who he faces.
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This.
 
Badr Hari said:
Povetkin is still top5 at HW and Huck who IMO never was a great CW put him in big trouble.

Glowacki is a great fighter but I don't see him winning a world title again. He looked awful in his last fight against an Ukrainian who took the fight on late notice. Survived a stoppage loss somehow.

Briedis I think already has a KO over Charr and I've seen Usyk at HW against Joyce when someone in this forum posted it. I don't think they can take the power of Joshua or Wilder. But they can make it a fight with anyone else since HW is shallow af.

I see Gassiev doing better than anyone. He is basically Joe Parker with KO power.
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Huck was a very accomplished CW
 
Tony Bellew! Not even a blown up heavy, rather fat CW, and laughably ranked in the wbc’s Top 5
 
Uysk isn't even a powerful guy at CW, how is he going to hurt people like Joshua and Wilder? Also they hit way harder than anyone he's been hit by. I don't see how he could last.
 
ironfist05 said:
Gassiev and Usyk would beat anybody other than Joshua or Wilder IMO, and might even be able to beat Wilder. Briedis and Dorticos would be top 10. Glowacki might be top ten depending on who he faces.
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I'm still not that big on Usyk tbh....

Good fighter. No power. If I am remembering correct, I think I had Breidis ahead in their fight

I don't think he would do that well at HW
 
XThe GreatestX said:
I'm still not that big on Usyk tbh....

Good fighter. No power. If I am remembering correct, I think I had Breidis ahead in their fight

I don't think he would do that well at HW
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It was a close fight, but I think I had Usyk up by a round or two.

His lakc of power is definitely a concern at HW, but a lot of the top guys don't have power. Pulev has no power, Fury and Parker has limited power. Whyte isn't a huge puncher either.

I think Usyk has the skills to beat all of those guys. Won't be a KO, but he'll make them all look bad. I think he's a good enough mover and slick enough that I'd give him a shot against Wilder too.

Brieidis is a good fighter actually, who beat Charr, the current WBA regular HW champ.
 
ironfist05 said:
Gassiev and Usyk would beat anybody other than Joshua or Wilder IMO, and might even be able to beat Wilder. Briedis and Dorticos would be top 10. Glowacki might be top ten depending on who he faces.
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I don't think so ...........

Bredis is not a big CW he's way too small for HW.

Dorticos could have success, Gassiev is a machine at CW but the way he fights i.e walking down his opponent is not going to be good swapping 200lb fists in your face for 240lbs.
Also with Usyk, good skill but he already comes in quite chunky at CW, he'll lose his mobility if he gets heavier so would have to change the way he boxes.

Tbh I want people to stop jumping up to HW and make the CW division a success and you do that by stacking it with talent.

CW has always been the bastard child of the bigger weights and if it had some marketable stars it could be great in its own right, I hate seeing talented CW's rush up to HW chasing a pay day and getting knocked around by much bigger guys.
 
Bredis, Usyk and Gassiev would all do fine at HW. Of the 3 I like Gassiev.
 
City_Lights said:
Uysk isn't even a powerful guy at CW, how is he going to hurt people like Joshua and Wilder? Also they hit way harder than anyone he's been hit by. I don't see how he could last.
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There are only two guys at HW right now who can really bang, and those two are the ones he has fuck all shot against. I also wouldnt give him much of a chance at all IF Fury returns to form.

But Parker, Whyte, Pulev, etc. He can hang with all of them.
 
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