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[eXile3]

I don't know what Fury could do better in a rematch besides waste less energy showboating. Would probably have to use his size and weight advantage for more aggressive attacks early on and risk KO. Usyk despite being a few years older is in significantly better shape and will almost inevitably win over 12 rounds it seems, as impressive as Fury's recovery from spaghetti legs was this time.

He seemed to do better when he was moving forward. Had success with upper cuts to the body but Usyk is so good he eventually adjusted.

Usyk is just defensively elite and so good with closing space.

 

[famicommander]

Rather than face the winner of Madrimov v Crawford as he was supposed to, Sebastian Fundora has dropped the WBO super welterweight title and will instead defend his remaining WBC title against Errol Spence Jr. in October.

The Madrimov v Crawford fight, which was originally going to be for Madrimov's WBA and the vacant WBO interim titles, will now be a full unified WBA/WBO world title fight.

On the undercard Tim Tszyu will face Vergil Ortiz Jr. for the WBA interim title and TBRB/Ring/lineal champion Jermell Charlo remains WBA Champion-In-Recess, which entitles him to a WBA title shot if he can make the 154 weight again. So it seems like the Crawford v Madrimov winner could be tied up fighting both Tszyu/Ortiz and Charlo for the foreseeable future.

Meanwhile, Serhii Bohachuk continues to get screwed. He was originally going to face Fundora for the WBC title, until Thurman got hurt and they made Fundora vs Tszyu for the WBC/WBO titles. Then Bohachuk ended up fighting Mendoza, who knocked Fundora out in Fundora's previous fight, for an interim belt. Instead of fighting Fundora for a full world title he had to fight the guy who KO'd Fundora for an interim title, and now Spence has jumped his spot in line for a shot at that same title again.

 

[famicommander]

Damn, the Saudi backing of Crawford is getting stuff done.

The WBC has stripped Crawford of its 147 title, granting him champion-in-recess status (essentially, he can challenge for the title whenever he wants if he ever goes back to 147). But the more important thing is that they have also sanctioned Crawford vs Madrimov as a WBC 154 final eliminator.

This means that the Madrimov v Crawford winner will be the WBA/WBO unified champion AND the mandatory challenger to the WBC title.

The Fundora v Spence winner will have to fight the Madrimov v Crawford winner next or vacate the WBC title. If the title is vacated then Crawford/Madrimov would face WBC interim champion Serhii Bohachuk for the unified WBA/WBC/WBO titles.

This is all assuming that he beats Madrimov and that he doesn't fight Canelo next, of course.

 

[famicommander]

Tim Tszyu has been ruled out of his scheduled WBA interim super welterweight title fight against Vergil Ortiz Jr. The fight was due to take place on the Crawford v Madrimov undercard, but doctors have ruled that the cut Tszyu received in the Fundora fight won't be fully healed in time.

No word on if they'll try to reschedule the fight or get a replacement opponent for Ortiz.

 

[quickeyg]

Tomorrow from Saudi (June 1st) Another mega boxing event thanks to Turki Alal Shikh. Also, great rivalry between the promoters (Hearn & Warren). Zhang is funny lol.


Matchroom vs Queensberry
Eddie Hearn vs Frank Warren
5 vs 5
USA vs China
USA vs UK



Deontay Wilder vs Zhilei Zhang (Main Event)



Daniel Dubois vs Filip Hrgovic
Hamzah Sheeraz vs Austin Williams
Dmitrii Bivol vs Malik Zinad
Raymond Ford vs Nick Ball
Willy Hutchinson vs Craig Richards

 

[famicommander]

Thankfully, the IBF has decided not to strip Usyk (yet).

Dubois vs Hrgovic will be for the IBF interim heavyweight title. Originally they had planned to strip Usyk and give the full IBF title to the winner.

Hopefully this Dubois vs Hrgovic fight ends in a draw or a no contest and it prevents them from crowning an interim titlist.

Hrgovic's only career quality opponent was Zhang, and in that fight Hrgovic turned his back and should've been given a TKO loss.

Dubois already had a shot against Usyk and besides a low blow he lost every second of that fight and got knocked out on a jab.

Basically, neither guy belongs anywhere near a title fight and it would be a farce to take one of Usyk's belts and give it to the winner of this bumfight.

 

[John Price]

Tyson (ulcer) forced to postpone bout vs. Paul

The July 20 boxing match between former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul has been postponed due to a recent health issue for Tyson, Netflix announced Friday.

www.espn.com

 

[famicommander]

And nothing of value was lost. Nobody needs to see a 58 year old drunk versus a sideshow act.

 

[MMC]

Nice KO for Zhang on Wilder

 

[aonb]

Nice KO for Zhang on Wilder

it was an awful fight tho. two guys barely throwing any punches. 5 rounds of nothing. alabama is completely done, can't even land a clean punch on a guy who is so slow on his feet and barely move his head

 

[famicommander]

Wilder should have retired after the third Fury fight. His chin is gone and he's too gunshy to land anything anymore. Embarrassing fight between him and Zhang. I would call Zhang washed too but he was never good to begin with.

It will be an absolute joke if they strip Usyk's IBF heavyweight belt to give it to the winner of Dubois vs Joshua. He stopped Dubois on a jab and he beat Joshua twice in a row.

Hrgovic is truly a horrible fighter though. Glad he got exposed after building his entire career off that Zhang fight where he should've been TKO'd when he turned his back.

 

[aonb]

Wilder should have retired after the third Fury fight. His chin is gone and he's too gunshy to land anything anymore. Embarrassing fight between him and Zhang. I would call Zhang washed too but he was never good to begin with.

It will be an absolute joke if they strip Usyk's IBF heavyweight belt to give it to the winner of Dubois vs Joshua. He stopped Dubois on a jab and he beat Joshua twice in a row.

Hrgovic is truly a horrible fighter though. Glad he got exposed after building his entire career off that Zhang fight where he should've been TKO'd when he turned his back.

Agree. First of all, Wilder is too scared of taking a punch, which makes him box defensively, moving backward, something he completely lacks skill in. Even the smaller Parker was able to corner him, let alone a big guy like Zhang. Just launch that right hand and hit that huge static chinese head lol. But at this point, Wilder just dont has it anymore. Im curious about excuses this time cause Alabama is a sore loser

Amazing performance from DDD, i just hope we won't hear about some magic juices in a few weeks because his stamina was unreal

 

[famicommander]

It was not an amazing performance from Dubois, he walked right into combinations all night. Hrgovic is just a bad fighter with no motor, no footwork, and no defense. Joshua will make quick work of Dubois if they make that fight. Heavyweight is truly a wasteland right now.