He's wrong anyway. Cruiserweight was actually pretty stacked when Usyk ran through it. That's why they put on the World Boxing Super Series tournament for two consecutive seasons. Enough talent was there. Holyfield's cruiserweight run was impressive but besides Qawi and himself there wasn't any depth back then. It was a new division that had only existed for a few years by that point. So, it's weird when casuals like this guy criticize Usyk's run there but not the others that unified the division.
I do agree with him that this is a weak heavyweight era. Compared to what it used to be anyway. There's little talent there. It's not nearly as deep as it was in the 60s-70s and the 90s. But, these guys are still heavyweights and you can lose to anybody there. All it takes is one punch.
Bit late, sorry, yeah Usyk has to get credit for expanding his own depth by going for a higher, more difficult division, at the same time the point is also moot considering he succeded in the amateurs as well, it's not like the guy got lucky and happened to stumble into a weak olympics, weak world's, weak cruiser and weak heavy, he had to go through a bunch of tough dudes in cruiser, tough dudes in HW (at their homes) and he did fight beterbiev 3 times in the amateurs winning two of them.
But comparing eras is kind of unfair, it's completely out of the boxer's hands. Obviously there are other great eras in the past but even those great eras had people saying "these guys suck compared to those of my day!"
I remember a history professor when I was 14, mike tyson was the rage back then and I was a huge fan (who wasnt) and this old geezer was like "mike tyson is a cow compared to Ali! He would have destroyed him bla bla"
Now a days people talk about Tyson as if he was indestructible back in his day.
When Lewis beat Tua people critizised him for running away, now they remember that night as a master class in boxing, as I am sure people will remember the Joshua/Ruiz rematch down the line.
I think comparing eras is a bit unfair, people always romanticise one more than the other.
Seeing things as impartial as possible, it really scrambles my brain to think what Usyk has achieved.