Comments Thread For: Oleksandr Usyk Drops Daniel Dubois Twice, Knocks Him Out in Ninth

[Southpawology]

The Usyk hate is real lol lol

first they criticize him for supporting his country, which is at war, in an arena that is over 80% Ukrainian.

He gets hit with a low blow and people are saying he should have been knocked out

now they are claiming Dubois took a dive



USYK

AND STILL…

They said he was too small for heavyweight now hes dropping legit Heavies with a jab lmao. haters mad

[billeau2]

People who think that Dubois KO'd Usyk are forgetting that if the ref had begun to count, Usyk would have probably got up...but he didn't count, so Usyk didn't bother to get up. If he felt the fight was in jeopardy, I think he'd have gotten up and just ride out the round. Usyk has incredible conditioning.

Yeah... the only thing that would affect that IMO would be a liver shot, and that did not appear to be a liver shot. Even judging from Usyke's reaction. I did not see it because the ****** heads would not show the replay of the shot! So I only saw like one replay.

[Dean_Razorback]

clearly low, usyk and inoue are the best of the best today

[famicommander]

They only showed the alleged low blow like once, maybe twice... I could not see much, looked like it was right on the bottom half of the trunks and half just below. But can't tell because they did not show it!

Interesting to note: It was not a liver shot... It was either way, to the pit of the gut, so Usyk could have been acting... but it is hard to imagine that a gut shot would do that... Who knows?

If you stop it just at the moment of contact here, it does look a little bit low to me. When I saw it in real time I thought it was clean, but to me this is a low shot.

[Thatmanox]

Wilder is a bum. Always has been. Stop talking about the glass jawed C fighter like he's a someone. He's a never was and a never will be. Wilder struggled with every bum he cherry picked to look good and still failed to accomplish his goal of looking like a world level fighter.

Stop the delusion.

No delusion, wilders a bum I agree. Wilder also sparks out Dubois within two rounds. Keven Larena should’ve ko’d Dubois. Wilder hits 10x harder than Dubois, Usyk could barely take Dubois’s punches. Face reality, stop the delusion, Usyk’s an overrated heavyweight.

[paulf]

They only showed the alleged low blow like once, maybe twice... I could not see much, looked like it was right on the bottom half of the trunks and half just below. But can't tell because they did not show it!

Interesting to note: It was not a liver shot... It was either way, to the pit of the gut, so Usyk could have been acting... but it is hard to imagine that a gut shot would do that... Who knows?

They just showed a clean replay - it was somewhere below his belly button but above his junk. Borderline. Some will call it low, some won't.

Would have preferred Pabon call it a KD. We don't know how Usyk would have reacted had the ref started counting instead of signaling time out.

[4truth]

They only showed the alleged low blow like once, maybe twice... I could not see much, looked like it was right on the bottom half of the trunks and half just below. But can't tell because they did not show it!

Interesting to note: It was not a liver shot... It was either way, to the pit of the gut, so Usyk could have been acting... but it is hard to imagine that a gut shot would do that... Who knows?

my thinking as well. he looked at the ref and saw he could milk it for a minute or so to recover. how badly he was hurt we may never know

[j0zef]

We need better video/pictures to judge.. on the replay, one of the things that does make me think is Usyk's reaction. When people get hit to the body, they cry and scream in pain. When fighters get hit low, the reaction is that huge exhale - same as Usyk. Look at his face, his lips form a huge "o" immediately. No crying, no screaming.

His shorts are low, and the punch came from below, so there's high likelihood it at least grazed his cup/balls. And being grazed by Dubois is probably not very pleasant.

[dannnnn]

At centre ring before the bell, you will often hear the ref say "these trunks are a little high, shots here (the belt line) are good." Usyk's trunks were not high, at all. Also, the waistband of his trunks was quite slim, only about half as wide as Dubois' for instance.

Anyone calling that a legal shot is reaching.

[paulf]

clearly low, usyk and inoue are the best of the best today

Damn, yeah. That is low.