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But there's an inherent issue with your theory. Giants like Lewis, Wlad, Vitali, Fury etc have never been the best boxers (despite their amateur creds). Generally men of that size aren't. They're not as technical and they don't move as well as cruiserweights or smaller heavyweights. Fundamentally speaking the fighters above have always had glaring flaws. That's why all of them got hit so much, floored, even knocked retarded (with the latter exception of Vitali who had an iron chin).I mean if the sport was evolving to cater to more Lewis sized and skilled boxers Usyk likely wouldn't be able to hang with them. Holy didnt have to contend with an entire era of giants.
Usyk is in an ideal market in which the shortcomings due to his weight are being compensated by the short comings of others around him. It's fine I guess, if this is his his era and that's what he has to do he can't be critised for it. He is a great fighter in an era of good fighters who aren't finely tuned so no one can really outbox him yet. P4P a more well rounded big fighter with strong boxing iq should be too much foor him.
Usyk never fought Wlad but he used to be a regular sparring partner. He once embarrassed Wlad so badly that he was kicked out of the gym in front of the media. This was back in 2015 when Usyk was just a cruiserweight and a novice pro, mind you.
Oleksandr Usyk once dominated Wladimir Klitschko in sparring so bad the heavyweight legend chucked him out of the gym
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