As talkSPORT seems to be again at Oleksandr Usyk’s knockout win over Daniel Dubois of their rematch over the weekend, Tony Bellew joins the chat and breaks down why he thinks Dubois is a transparent front-runner who selected not stick with it within the battle and why he has necessary inquiries to ask himself going ahead.
“The writing was on the wall the minute [Usyk] landed the primary robust jab within the first spherical,” Bellew mentioned. “Daniel Dubois is an excellent fighter on the entrance foot…when issues are going his manner and he’s touchdown punches, he’s an absolute nightmare for anyone, as we’ve seen within the AJ battle. However the minute you begin to maneuver round him, make him miss a few instances and make him pay by the way in which, he begins doubting himself, he begins feeling sorry for himself.
“And I’m sorry to make use of these phrases. This isn’t my opinion, guys. That is truth. That is the third time now. And he begins searching for a manner, and he simply fell aside if I’m being completely sincere. The primary knockdown is a powerful jab. After which the second knockdown, when it comes, I simply really feel he’s on the ground trying on the referee. Don’t get me fallacious, it’s a heavy backhand excessive, and he’s on the ground and he’s a bit dazed at first and by the point he will get to a few or 4 he’s clearly that referee and he’s not getting up.
“It was a glance of a fighter — I feel the query he must reply is ‘why am I doing this? Who am I doing this for and why am I doing it?’ As a result of if he’s doing it for himself, consider you me guys, he will get up. I bought hit with the identical pictures off Usyk and I used to be on my again flat and by the depend of six I used to be up on my toes and fortunately for me the referee stopped it and saved my life as a result of I wished to hold on.
“What you seen in Daniel on Saturday was a fighter who takes a very heavy shot, doesn’t need to rise up, guys…When he will get into these actually laborious moments in fights, that’s when the true Daniel comes out and the true Daniel doesn’t need to battle.”
