Via Dan Ambrose: Oleksandr Usyk says he will be relegated to cruiser weight class for fun in a match against Canelo Alvarez provided he can hold on to his IBF, WBA & WBO heavyweight titles.
This week, former undisputed cruiser champion Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) was asked if he’d be ready to take on legacy-focused Canelo in his old weight division, and he said he would do it.
Usyk has heard about 10 million dollars or more wallet that IBF super middleweight champion Caleb Plant got for his game against Canelo this past November 6 and he wants to get in on the action.
Olympic gold medalist Usyk is waiting to see when his rematch with Anthony Joshua will take place. That war lasted until March or April next year.
Oleksandr, 6’3 ″, has great boxing and technical skills and a great chin. So how can Canelo score by knockout recently despite having a VERY low punch output incapable of resisting Usyk.
Unless Canelo can throw more shots and fight harder than him, Usyk is going to fumble him and potentially score goals.
Usyk will have no problem fighting Canelo
Cruiser relegation for some lightweight against tiny 5’8″ Canelo (57-1-2, 39 KOs) will be easy business for Usyk, as he weighed 221 lbs in the final bout at heavyweight with Joshua (24–2, 22 KOs) on September 25.
Cruiser weights tend to increase in weight at 200 lbs and then rehydrate to about 215 lbs. For Usyk to go from 221 lbs to 200 lbs will be very easy because he will only need to lose 5 pounds of muscle and then dehydrate the remaining 15 to 16 lbs of weight to hit the 200 lb limit to cope. face Canelo.
Usyk ready for a Cruiserweight match against @Canelo under one condition pic.twitter.com/8S6EwiEQSf
– ESPN Ringside (@ESPNRingside) December 14, 2021
Canelo wants to move up to the cruiser rank to compete for the WBC championship Ilunga Makabu to be his next 5-tier world champion.
Fans will be much more impressed with Canelo if he plays against Usyk in the cruiser class than the disabled paper champion Makabu. Yes, Usyk doesn’t have any titles for Canelo to aspire to win, but let’s not fool ourselves.
Canelo is obsessed with winning titles
The ONLY way Canelo defeats Usyk is if he gets the same rating as we saw in the two fights with Gennadiy Golovkin, Erislandy Lara, Miguel Cotto and Austin Trout. With that assessment, Usyk won’t stand a chance against Canelo unless he knocks him down, which is possible.
Alvarez has fallen into a strange cycle where he’s focused on winning world titles against paper champions instead of talented ones, and that has caused many boxing fans to dislike him. . calculated opportunist approach to the belt of victory.
Fans would celebrate Canelo winning the world championship if he fought good champions, but he doesn’t.
Probably Gennadiy Golovkin knocks something out of Canelo, made him stop taking risks and focus on nothing else but a solid win over paper champions like the ones he won at 168 to become the undisputed champion.
