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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, So we were back on the way gots

(00:01):
represented by the Ring magazine and Alexander Usik just dominated
Daniel Dubois right the second time he's done that, and
this time he did it in even better fashion. He
has cleared out the heavyweight division after clearing out the
cruiserweight division, now three times undisputed, once at cruiserweight, twice
at heavyweight. And I'm feeling the need to say something controversial.

(00:25):
Is it recency bias maybe, but it's just what I think.
It's a crazy statement here it comes. I think Alexander
Usik is not only an all time great, he may
be the greatest heavyweight boxer ever. What do I mean
the breakdown? Let's go so, like I said, Alexander Usik,
Daniel Dubois just wrapped up two days in Wembley Stadium

(00:47):
in front of howmever many ninety thousand people Duwa's backyard.
Usik comes over to the UK again, gets the job
done and honestly this time made it look easier than
he did the first time. And he stopped Daniel Dubois
the first fight as well. Obviously the controversy low blow
whatever stopped him with the jab the first time. This
time does it even quicker and even easier? And it

(01:08):
was really just based on the fact that Usik is
just that good. Daniel Dubois had a good game plan. Listen,
they wanted to bully Usik. Eh, dude, new That's all
you heard all week from Dubois. He was confident he
was gonna create chaos. In his words, he was gonna
come in and wreak havoc right be an unstoppable bulldozer.

(01:30):
And he tried at points in this fight, especially early on,
he tried. He tried to get in Usick's face, he
tried to rough him up, He tried to land the
right hand and tried to get there with the jab.
The problem is, Alexander Usik has feet and movement and
timing and distance control that heavyweight maybe has never seen,

(01:51):
at least hasn't seen for a very long time. He
put Daniel Dubois in a blender in this fight. When
Dubois thought he had Usik trapped in corners early on,
Usik would hit him with the lead hand, sting him
not just a jab define range, but sting him with
the jab and sir. When Duboa thought the time was
to throw the right hand and catch Usik slipping. He

(02:12):
kind of did. Usik would slip that right hand and
bang the left cross behind it and hurt Daniel Dubois
in that case as well, everything Daniel Dubaugh wanted to do,
Usik had an answer for. Throughout the fight. There were
moments Daniel Dubois had where he was able to corner
Usick and really throw some punches that potentially could hurt him,
a right hand here or there, maybe a shot to

(02:34):
the body. Ironically enough, there was another low blow or
at least beltline shot, but Usik didn't hit the ground
or he didn't wallow around. He just took it and
kept fighting. And Daniel du waj just did not have
an answer for Alexander Usig in this fight, and he
really just didn't have the tools for Alexander Rusig. And
that's the big difference. Usik at heavyweight is showing that
the real disparity in skill at this weight class, like

(02:57):
Tyson Fury is the next best thing to him, and
trust me, those two fights were close. Usik has figured
Tyson Fury out, at least from what I saw in
the first fight to the second fight. Usik has his number.
Usik has power in his left hand. He walked Fury
into they wanted to move more in the second fight,
and Usik out boxed him. He out boxed the best heavyweight,
actual sized heavyweight boxer there is right now. He dealt

(03:20):
with the two biggest power punchers with a little bit
of skill at heavyweight, so he can box you when
he needs to, he can sit down on his power
when he needs to. And he has the total package.
He had it at cruiserweight and he's brought it to
heavyweight and that's kind of been the meta. I mean,
if and your holy Field came from cruiserweight, he was
undisputed there came up, So that has been the meta.
Guys that are smaller, that can move, can take advantage

(03:42):
of these slow, stagnant, stiff heavyweights. But Usik's been able
to do it in an era with Tyson Fury, who's
the mover, who's feet moved like a cruiserweight, but he's
six nine to seventy. Usik's like real cool hold these
two losses. So he's done that and he's taking care
of the big bad wolves at heavyweight, the big punchers.
The AJ's dubas after Duwa beats agent. This to me

(04:02):
is starting to solidify why he's one of the greatest,
if not the greatest heavyweights ever. No, he's not in
a heavyweight name dominant era, right, He isn't in the
era of Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis or a Vander Holyfield.
But when you look at those matchups on paper, Usik's
skill set matches up favorably. Maybe Mike Tyson in his prime,
with his footwork and his speed in his explosivity could

(04:25):
match up well with Usik. Maybe Lennox Lewis with the
Big three, his jab, his right hand and his left
hook could match up well. But you still got to
bring your feet. You can't just reach, because today Daniel
Duboi reached and got taught what was wrong with all
of that. Every time he tried to walk and kind
of plot forward on Usik and lunge out with that
right hand and region on that front foot, overstepping, unbalanced,

(04:49):
Usik would slip outside the right hand and club him
with the left one. He dropped him, I think it
was in the fourth round with a right hook set
up off the left hand. Dubai hit the canvas and
I don't even know if it the next round. I've
seen so many fights today, but one of the next
exchanges they had got duwih the big time shot right
hand dropped him. Dubi got back to his feet, and
then Dubai made a terrible mistake. He actually made the

(05:10):
same mistake that Anthony Joshua made when Dubi was fighting him.
Go back to the Dua Anthony Joshua fight. Joshua started
to trade when he was hurt. When you're out on
your feet and you're not making decisions well, and your
corner's already told you need to be aggressive, and he's
already dropped you once, and you're not feeling like this
is going your way, and you're throwing freaking hell Mary's

(05:31):
and Usik is calm collected, is swinging that lead arm
right out in front of you like it's a freaking
elephant trunk, and he's fainting, and he just drops that
nuclear left hand on Dubois and he even called it.
It was a little different than what he normally throws.
Usik has three levels of left hand or backhand that
he throws. He throws a straight backhand, he throws the
backhand hook, and he calls it the I think he

(05:52):
said the ivan punch, the chopping overhand left that kind
of goes knuckled down essentially around your go and sticks
right on the temple. He actually caught Dubois on the
chin with it. The mouthpiece goes flying, and that's all
she wrote. Usik by stoppage, no debate, no controversy, just

(06:13):
another dominant win at heavyweight for Alexander Usik. And the
question now you have is who can beat him? Who
He's thirty eight years old. We just saw Manny Pakyao
at forty six years old. School in the new school
of lower weight class boxers. Usik could potentially do this
for two or three more years. You have Joseph Parker,

(06:35):
who rightfully should get the next shot at heavyweight. Tyson
Fury piped up on Twitter. He wants the trilogy. No
one wants to see that. It doesn't make sense to
give him the trilogy. It should go to Joseph Parker.
You have Kabel waiting in the wings there. People thinks
he's gonna be something special. But I just look at
the landscape and I see Usik beating him all, which
is why I came with the crazy take at the

(06:57):
start of this video, which was he might be the
greatest of all time. If he's not already, he's going
to be by the time he retires. Unless somebody like
Jai Opataia comes up, and the way Opataiah likes to trade,
Usik can probably get him. So I don't know, I'm
making a lot of generalizations and assumptions right now, but
if you look through the history of heavyweight boxing, you're

(07:19):
not gonna find as many movers at least good footwork
for the size they're at that Usik is. You might
look to a Muhammad Ali, for example, and that would
be a good matchup. Again, you look to Mike Tyson,
who is a speed and explosive move whereas Usik is
very relaxed, composed and the movement has a purpose, but

(07:39):
it's not super explosive. It almost lulls you to sleep
before the Cobra strikes. Not Carl Frotz, no reference there, Cobra.
But yeah, the point is I again, maybe I'm being
maybe it's recency biased, maybe I'm being a little too
generous to Alexander Usik, But when you are two times
undisputed without ever losing, meaning they he took your belt

(08:00):
off you just because you didn't defend a mandatory the
guy that won it. You came back after you'd already
beaten him. You beat him again and made it look
easier the second time when you were the old man,
the thirty eight and all this. The only issue I
can think of is that his era of heavyweight won't
be looked at as a great heavyweight era, which will
penalize him. But you'll have to go to the nineties
to look at a quote unquote great heavyweight era, and

(08:22):
I think that that Usik has the skills and the
tools to beat them. You can go to the eighties,
the seventies, the sixties. There's not gonna be many guys
that you can put on that list and again bring
bring the Muhammad al Lei comparisons, and the Mike Tyson's
and the even the Klitschko brothers, two other great Ukrainians
in their prime, or the Lennox Lewises, like, you're gonna

(08:43):
have people the Larry Holmes. You're gonna have people that
are good at what they do. But Usik almost has
every single skill set. He has the feet, he has
the power, he has the volume, he has the accuracy,
he can set up and deliver. He can fight off
the front foot, he can fight off the back foot,
he can get stronger as the fight goes on. He
can start quick. There are things that make him so

(09:04):
special that I just haven't seen at the heavier weight
classes in a very long time. And I don't know
if he's getting the credit he deserves because he's not
the greatest talker in English, is in his first language,
and he's not very extravagant or flamboyan. But again, maybe
I'm just being a bit of a recency bias merchant.
Maybe it's not as big a deal as I'm making it,
and maybe Usik still has a lot left to prove.

(09:27):
I don't see anyone stopping him soon. Joseph Parker's the
next guy. Bring him in. I don't think that one
goes different. Usik wants to fight Tyson Fury. He heard
him say that name in the ring in a trilogy.
Bring that in, I guess. Then Jake Paul decided he
was going to pop up and do a face to
face with Alexander Usik, and then you learn on Twitter
after that that it's because Jake wants to fight him
in an MMA match. That might be the only thing

(09:48):
that Usick can't be the greatest at at this point,
but I don't know anything about that. I don't know
why they had Jake face off against Usick. It was
a weird look after he defends the undisputed heavyweight championship.
But then again, and Jake wants to fight AJ, and
apparently that might actually happen sooner than we think, potentially
twenty twenty six. I'm doing a video on that tomorrow.
But the point is, I just don't know if I

(10:09):
see Alexander Usik losing for the foreseeable future. As long
as he wants to continue being world champion, I think
he will be world champion. Now, you still have to
fight the fights, and it's a heavyweight. One punch can
change everything. Next up should be Joseph Park, point blank. Period.
It should have been him to begin with, but it's
now definitely should be him, and I'll see where he
goes from there. Because you have, like I said, Kabiel,

(10:30):
you have potentially a fury, and AJ would actually fight
like everybody in their mother's in existence want to happen
in heavyweight boxing. Then you would actually have a reason
for Tyson Fury or aj to get a third fight
with Usik, because as it sits right now, there is
no purpose for Usik to do a trilogy with two
guys that he already beat twice. Do we realize how

(10:51):
insane that is? He beat everybody and then lapped the
division like they were on flat tires and a NASCAR race,
and one of them was Tyson Fury, supposed to have
been this generation's great heavyweight. Lusk was like, cool, here's
my undisputed cruiserweight belts. Don't want that anymore. I want
to go up there and take his belts and Joshua's
belts and wise belts. I'll take them all. Thank you.

(11:11):
He's actually incredible, and yeah, it's just insane to see
that level of skill at thirty eight. The precision, the
fight was never in doubt. He took care of business
and that was emotivated coming off of three fight win
streak Daniel Dubois and he just shut him down completely.
Listen to was by no means done. Twenty seven years old,
still still so young. But I just don't know if

(11:33):
if Dubois has the skills right now, he needs to
go back to work. I will say this again controversial take.
Maybe I saw it on Twitter Turk Yallas Shaik is
saying he wants the young prospect Moses Atalma to fight
Alexander Usik. I say that's a little too early, but
in a year to a year and a half's time,
because number one Atalma has a fight Verstilian White. I

(11:54):
think he wins that fight. But you know, let's get
through that. But a year to a year and a
half down the line, twenty one, twenty two year old
Moses Atama, give him three more fights, including the Dillion
White fight. Get him some tough competition, really put him
against it comes through that, ladies and gentlemen, we have
a fight. Because I'm not gonna lie. I would love

(12:14):
to see Moses Otama get fast tracked, get put not
in easy fights to get him a title fight, but
get him in some real competitive fight. Start with Dillion
White and move him from there to get him some
experience and put him in a position to potentially be
that purse that could footwork for footwork, skill for skill
maybe be the answer to the Uzik problem, But as

(12:37):
of right now, there isn't one, and I don't foresee
one being the case, even Moses to Tama. It's a
long way away. Right now, Usik rules the roost. And
maybe it's recency biased, but he might be the greatest,
not only had this generation, but of all time. You disagree,
let me know in the comments down below. But what
a performance today, domination as he knocks out Daniel Dubah
for the second time. He's running laps around the heavyweight scene.

(13:00):
Who's gonna stop him? I don't have that answer, so
I guess we'll find out
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