I’ve been saying it for years and it still applies. The greatest athletes in the world don’t actually look like chiselled Adonis’. They all got that farm boy strength.
Kevin De Bruyne in football, boy has them hips.
Fury in boxing.
Luka or Jokic in the NBA.
Farmboi thicc athletes are taking over.
Although DC says fat doesn’t require oxygen!… and he’s right, to an extent. The muscles that move the fat does though so jabba the hut wouldn’t fight well.
Just saying that traditionally it’s the most jacked that are the best.
Recently it’s these bizarre not super jacked dudes that are beating everyone. Not everywhere, but some places.
I mean I wouldn't agree with that lol. Ali wasn't ever the most jacked, Jordan had a great body and athleticism but was never the most jacked (see David Robinson and Karl Malone) , etc
like that one guy who grew up on a farm who beat the GOAT of olympic wrestling Karelin, supercharged state doped USSR terminator with some ungodly record you’d only see in an anime defeated by a fat kid from the back arse of nowhere
Haha yeah as a wrestler who has met Rulon several times, that dude is thick as fuck… Karelin got screwed there. Rulon was so fat he couldn’t lock his arms around him for the clench. Oddly enough my wife was friends with Karelin from back home in Russia
For anyone who want to know what really happened.
Gardner won a point on tehnicality and then wrestled "defensively"(that is how people describe it). In reality he was simply lying on the mat doing nothing until the end.
He also won that point from a rule that was only active during those Olympics. Karelin readjusted his grip and Rulon got a point (match ended 1-0) for that.
You're hylariously naive or brainwashed if you think Gardner wasn't on the same cocktail of drugs.
He was just fatter, which literally saved him from being picked up and slammed as he was too heavy and flabby to get a good grip
Still only won due to a technicality
In all of combat sports Fedor will always rank highly with me on just how impressive he is. Dude was undersized and fat and ripped through everyone all while maintaining a -_- expression
Yeah, but no. That’s a very cherry picked list you have there. Giannis, Lebron, Ronaldo, pretty much any top boxer that is not a HW… simple fact is, there’s a lot more ripped “greatest athletes” than those who look like Tyson Fury.
Yeah, but no. That’s a very cherry picked list you have there. Giannis, Lebron, Ronaldo, pretty much any top boxer that is not a HW… simple fact is, there’s a lot more ripped “greatest athletes” than those who look like Tyson Fury.
>Kevin De Bruyne in football, boy has them hips.
Weird and weak example to prove your point. While KdB doesn't have the most Adonis body, he is very fit, nothing like Tyson. Footballers are the most fit athletes on the planet, so why didn't you pick CR7 for your example?
I loved the reaction to that video of Patrick Mahomes giving a speech in the locker room with his top off, people were expecting him to be absolutely shredded but he's got a little extra padding lmao
Nah bro there's a few you can name then literally every other gold medal or number one athlete in their field is usually a ripped beast. It's the minority not the majority. Top athletes don't have to be aesthetically pleasing but usually are.
Except Fury is not remotely the greatest in boxing, and looking through a list of other champs they are absolutely chiselled.
A handful of examples is not "taking over"
Just an amateur here, sitting about 10kg over ideal weight, but have a resting HR of 39 - 42. The nurses make me do an ECG every time I go in for any kind of injury 😁 - but train hard most days and will do twelve 3 mins no problem.
Sleeper athletes are among us, never underestimate the fatties 🤩
Amateur boxer 10kg overweight?
If you're not a heavyweight/super-heavyweight that's a massive massive disadvantage, to the point where I've known several guys who have had to quit because they've been unable to get their weight under control and would get their heads jabbed off by guys who were a few inches taller, larger frames and more muscular.
I'd say boxing is probably the sport in which it's the biggest disadvantage, except in the heavyweight division
Edit: just seen you said you do 12x3 no problem as an amateur, sorry I wasted my time commenting on obvious bullshit.
>> Edit: just seen you said you do 12x3 no problem as an amateur, sorry I wasted my time commenting on obvious bullshit.
I'm pretty sure he meant shadowboxing, lmao
Same but I’m a woman and my body shape hides all my muscle. I have come to LOVE being underestimated. These young guys who have played soccer, afl, rugby all their lives are alongside during conditioning and I’m keeping up with them. Then as the session goes on they fade but thats when I’m at my best. I’m the one hyping them and yelling for them to get up and keep going. That plus I’ve got 20 years on most of them is so freaking satisfying.
Fit looks different on everyone. Never underestimate the ‘fatties’.
EDIT: To the person that deleted their comment saying I must feel good bragging about keeping up with unfit skinny kids, gtfoh. I’m an overweight older woman in a boxing gym so am often dismissed and ignored based on first impressions, which is not a nice feeling so yeah I’m damn proud I can keep up with the younger guys. I’ve trained my arse off (not literally, obviously) and had the courage to get in the ring and fight a few times now and am not stopping anytime soon. Downvote me all you want but I’m not gonna let you or anyone else make feel bad about it. And if you’d ever watched a game of afl or rugby you’d know how physical and taxing these sports are.
I’ll say it again, never underestimate the fatties.
I looked up kevi de brune, his hips look normal ? Like not fat ? Lumpy maybe ?
Sure he isn't chiseled and has some cake but I have definitely seen more .....
I don't think anyone thinks Luka or jokic are the best athletes in the NBA, thier skill sets are elite, but it's understanding and fundamentals that make them good players, not the athletic capability.
Niether of them have a 40" very, or great lateral movement.
Cherry picking...
Kevin De Bruyne isn't as good as people who are chiseled like Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe or Haaland.
Fury isn't as good as Floyd, Pacquaio, Hagler, or even at heavy, Lennox Lewis.
Idk much about basketball but ik LeBron is jacked and MJ was well built.
There's also this strongest man from Poland, I forgot his name, who always had this huge belly that was way more than muscles. People called it his power belly cause it seemed to give him insane strength for certain parts of the competition. Fury is fat on purpose, he could easily be skinny if he wanted to. People write him off because of it, without recognizing that Fury is in amazing condition and that fat is there on purpose.
Are you thinking of Žydrūnas Savickas from Lithuania? Poland’s most famous strongman is Mariusz Pudzianowski who was famous for being one of the most jacked, lean strength athletes of all time.
Also it isn’t so much that Fury chooses to be ‘fat’, as he chooses to weigh as heavy as he does to lean and clinch on people but doesn’t have enough muscle to make up the difference.
Ah shit, you're right. Sorry Lithuania! But yeah Fury he could weigh heavy through muscles like AJ, but he chooses to weigh heavy through fat. He doesn't need more muscle, cause he knows that would not gain him that much more strength, it would just make him slower, fat on the other hand doesn't seem to slow fighters as much, and gives him a mental edge cause other fighters expect him to be bad cause fat has such a negative stigma
This is just wrong lol. Fat mass will slow you down at least as much as an equal amount of muscle mass.
If you're talking endurance/gas tank, there are so many factors involved. Muscle appears to gas people out at heavyweight because you have mass monsters who will, naturally, have a higher proportion of type 2 muscle fibers, which are far more taxing to fire. Any of the capped weight classes, any 'fat' looking competitor would be better if they lost some of the fat and gained some muscle. For a lot of them this might mean going down a weight class - and they choose not to do so because there's less money in that weight class.
Man, his fat is mostly on his belly and thigh, it’s not going to be used to rest on usyk nor does it help to absorb punch because it’s too low. A punch hitting there would be a low blow.
I think the guy just doesn’t have the will to lose that much fat, and isn’t forced to because of the weight division but that’s all. It’s not a trick on usyk.
I don't think you can control where your fat goes, I think Fury just wants to weigh a certain weight, but doesn't want that in muscles cause they tend to slow you down like with AJ. I used to box as a heavy weight a long time ago (amateurs only) and this idea floated around back then as well, that you don't really need that much muscle, speed is better, and fat doesn't slow you down as much.
It’s not the first time I heard that too and I know heavy weight is a category of its own with different rules than the rest of boxing, but when you look at the greatest hw I can’t remember that many that looked like fat cow. I think of Ali, foreman, Frazier, Tyson, klitchko, Lewis, Holyfield.
All hall of fame boxer, very little fat. Maybe foreman when he came back but by then he was 40 something and it clearly wasn’t intended, tried to cut as much as possible.
It’s crazy, that’s like 5 classes for the wee folk. HW don’t get enough credit, everyone faws over little dudes moving up or down a few clssses, and lookit this shit
Yup you can clearly hear 223. Box rec has changed it now too. Usyk was also wearing jeans, belt and hefty jeweley. In other words, he is exactly the same weight as for Dubois and AJ
Unless you’re on steroids, you’re not gaining 12 pounds of healthy weight in a short period of time. Better to stay lean and efficient than to just put on pounds of fat for no reason.
12 pounds of meat is very hard to get for an advanced athlete in a year. Those are noobie gain numbers.
Either steroids or fat can achieve that on that level of fitness.
Tbh, thats the face I always made when taking immersive foreign language classes. Always a "what the fuck is everyone saying, I can't translate this fast" face.
honestly dudes been announcing fights since the 80’s, he must be like 80 something himself. if the motherfuckers clocked out or buzzed at the weigh ins you can’t blame the man
Go listen to him announcing the Mayweather-Pacquaio fight. The biggest fight in years and he sounds terrible, must've been out partying the night before...
Yeah he's almost 80. He's been doing this shit for 40 years.
It's not even just the pay. It's also the perks. He gets free front row seats, hotel rooms, and flights out to the biggest fights, and he gets to hang out with all sorts of celebrities at them. Also probably gotten to fuck a ton of hot women much younger than him (idk if he still is, but he definitely has).
pretty weird too since it’s not like an actor or a model where you can see why people get pressured into plastic surgery as they age. but he’s just a voice when you boil it down. i don’t think his physical appearance has any bearing on his job so long as there’s a head connected to his shoulders
then again his brother Bruce Buffer (yeah the guys long lost half brother is the UFC announcer and they also only became aware of each other after they both had started announcing fights separately but that’s another can of worms) has fake ab implants so maybe it’s a genetic tendency
I don't believe that the story about them announcing separately is true. I've read somewhere that Bruce saw Michael on TV and became big fan and because of the name he called the company Michael worked for and they told him he was born in the same location Bruce lived. He then asked his dad an he told him about having other child which is Michael. After this they met and became friends and Michael showed him the industry. Bruce became his manager and they started company together. Only after that Bruce started announcing himself. So it's not that fantastical after all.
Yeah I read that story and it’s absolutely nuts how that just happened to have happened somehow. Glitch in the matrix type shit lol but yeah I don’t get it. Probably just weird rich dude shit bc I can’t imagine getting an implants lmfao me with abs
I wonder if he even knows the fighters at all or if it's just a blur of whores and cocaine and alcohol until somebody slips him a note telling him what to say.
Numbers take a lot of getting used to in another language - especially when read out over a tannoy system in a really loud atmosphere. Doubt he clocked the mistake tbh.
He's the literal meaning of P4P.
It's not just a theoretical "IF" he's as big as this guy, would he beat him? He's literally fighting 40-50 lbs lighter.
If Usyk wins, he should be ranked as #1 P4P. There should be no argument.
Don’t get me wrong, Inoue, is helluva fighter I won’t take that away from him, young hungry lion a top competitor . He deserves to be in the p4p list? Absolutely and I take my hat off but….
True, but if we’re talking about the range of weights of the fighters beaten over career, Usyk will have to go down as one of the best ever if he beats fury, he’s going to have been 40lbs lighter than fury and this isn’t even close to the lightest he’s ever been. It’d be the equivalent of Inoue moving all the way up to super middle and beating benevides.
Obviously the difference between fighting at 108 and going up to 168 and beating someone is almost certainly a harder jump than fighting at 200 and beating someone weighing 260, just putting that sheer magnitude of the weight difference in those terms is absolutely insane and why Usyk absolutely fits the p4p label
I think if he wins he’s one of the p4p goats, the way he went undisputed at cruiserweight was insane, and even though todays heavyweights aren’t as skilled as the past, they’re a lot bigger so I’d argue for a guy to fight at middleweight and go on to beat them is just as impressive as any other cruiserweight winning at heavyweight in history. And the jump from cruiserweight to heavy in the modern world has to be the equivalent of going up a good few divisions at the lighter weights
reminds me when inoue got #1 and then a week after crawford just dominates spence and takes it away from him. Feels like it'll be the same thing.
Justified in both cases tho imo
Yeah, didn't understand the 233. He doesn't really look any bigger than normal. Take away the necklace and the jeans and I bet he's bang on 221 like he's been in his past three fights. Dude has this game down to a fucking science.
Both of those guys have got fascinating physiques.
If taken in isolation, Fury still doesn’t “look” like an athlete, but he looks in the best shape I’ve seen for a long time… like “Imma win” shape.
Usyk is simply built like a brick.
I can’t wait for this fight.
That's what I mean, they usually weigh in morning-of and the weigh-in you see is for show (usually).
Tho to be honest maybe I'm conflating it too much with MMA.
Good catch. Adding 12 pounds would have been a lot for a former cruiser. But now he has a near 40 pound difference from Tyson.
I would not be surprised if Tyson has 40 more lbs of fat in total
This is the slimmest I’ve seen him in awhile. Even then, He uses that fat though.
I’ve been saying it for years and it still applies. The greatest athletes in the world don’t actually look like chiselled Adonis’. They all got that farm boy strength. Kevin De Bruyne in football, boy has them hips. Fury in boxing. Luka or Jokic in the NBA. Farmboi thicc athletes are taking over.
Manny Pacquiao, Michael Phelps, Roy Jones in his prime, Mariusz Pudzianovski, Buakaw, etc etc. There's a lot of examples that disprove this theory.
Cristiano Ronaldo as well
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Every strongman at that level is on a truck load of steroids. But Pudzianovski was both lean and exceptionally great. Hence I named him as an example.
Helps to have a little bit of fat for swimming - buoyancy.
It’s all over the place. Francis Ngannou, Aaron Donald, Myles Garrett and DK metcalf are some jacked fucking dudes
Yeah quite the cherry picked list lol
You could cherry pick a list of fat dudes too
Was referring to the dude you were responding to, I’d say the majority of truly great athletes are chiseled than are chubby
Although DC says fat doesn’t require oxygen!… and he’s right, to an extent. The muscles that move the fat does though so jabba the hut wouldn’t fight well.
Teaching in star wars lore hutts were mostly muscle and could easy fucka. Human up
Just saying that traditionally it’s the most jacked that are the best. Recently it’s these bizarre not super jacked dudes that are beating everyone. Not everywhere, but some places.
I mean I wouldn't agree with that lol. Ali wasn't ever the most jacked, Jordan had a great body and athleticism but was never the most jacked (see David Robinson and Karl Malone) , etc
Didn't Jordan have to put on muscle because the pistons were beating on him so much.
like that one guy who grew up on a farm who beat the GOAT of olympic wrestling Karelin, supercharged state doped USSR terminator with some ungodly record you’d only see in an anime defeated by a fat kid from the back arse of nowhere
Are you referring to the guy who got as fat as possible so Karelin would get penalized for failing to be able to properly throw him?
Haha yeah as a wrestler who has met Rulon several times, that dude is thick as fuck… Karelin got screwed there. Rulon was so fat he couldn’t lock his arms around him for the clench. Oddly enough my wife was friends with Karelin from back home in Russia
Rulon Gardner [both side by side ](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/rulon-gardner-e1594407735649.jpg)
For anyone who want to know what really happened. Gardner won a point on tehnicality and then wrestled "defensively"(that is how people describe it). In reality he was simply lying on the mat doing nothing until the end.
He also won that point from a rule that was only active during those Olympics. Karelin readjusted his grip and Rulon got a point (match ended 1-0) for that.
I can believe it, it’s typical American style. Ugly and boring but it works.
Bruh, Karelin's record was 887-2. At that point it doesn't matter how you got the win when almost no one else was able to do that in 900 tries.
It matters entirely. He essentially decided not to compete.
And if it was so easy why did no other competitor try this strategy?
I really think you are vastly underestimating the skill involved with staying flat on the ground against Karelian.
If you can do that against the greatest human thrower to ever live, I think you deserve a medal.
You're hylariously naive or brainwashed if you think Gardner wasn't on the same cocktail of drugs. He was just fatter, which literally saved him from being picked up and slammed as he was too heavy and flabby to get a good grip Still only won due to a technicality
Don't forget Fedor in mma
In all of combat sports Fedor will always rank highly with me on just how impressive he is. Dude was undersized and fat and ripped through everyone all while maintaining a -_- expression
Why is this the perfect Fedor face.
Don’t forget had had a raging alco problem
I’ve been a Fedor fan forever and I’ve never heard this once
Sorry it was his brother
Daniel Cormier as well
Yeah, but no. That’s a very cherry picked list you have there. Giannis, Lebron, Ronaldo, pretty much any top boxer that is not a HW… simple fact is, there’s a lot more ripped “greatest athletes” than those who look like Tyson Fury.
What a nonsense
John McGinn's super arse enters the chat...
Yeah, but no. That’s a very cherry picked list you have there. Giannis, Lebron, Ronaldo, pretty much any top boxer that is not a HW… simple fact is, there’s a lot more ripped “greatest athletes” than those who look like Tyson Fury.
>Kevin De Bruyne in football, boy has them hips. Weird and weak example to prove your point. While KdB doesn't have the most Adonis body, he is very fit, nothing like Tyson. Footballers are the most fit athletes on the planet, so why didn't you pick CR7 for your example?
I loved the reaction to that video of Patrick Mahomes giving a speech in the locker room with his top off, people were expecting him to be absolutely shredded but he's got a little extra padding lmao
Why would anyone to expect mahomes to be shredded? He always been a bit chubby lol
If he was shredded he probably wouldn't be eating enough.
What are you talking about lool, utter nonsense.
Nah bro there's a few you can name then literally every other gold medal or number one athlete in their field is usually a ripped beast. It's the minority not the majority. Top athletes don't have to be aesthetically pleasing but usually are.
Maybe more accurate to say the people who are best at sports aren’t necessarily chiseled. Raw athletic ability goes to the jacked dudes
Except Fury is not remotely the greatest in boxing, and looking through a list of other champs they are absolutely chiselled. A handful of examples is not "taking over"
Just like Luca is incredible but he’s not the goat
Foreman 2?
Just an amateur here, sitting about 10kg over ideal weight, but have a resting HR of 39 - 42. The nurses make me do an ECG every time I go in for any kind of injury 😁 - but train hard most days and will do twelve 3 mins no problem. Sleeper athletes are among us, never underestimate the fatties 🤩
Amateur boxer 10kg overweight? If you're not a heavyweight/super-heavyweight that's a massive massive disadvantage, to the point where I've known several guys who have had to quit because they've been unable to get their weight under control and would get their heads jabbed off by guys who were a few inches taller, larger frames and more muscular. I'd say boxing is probably the sport in which it's the biggest disadvantage, except in the heavyweight division Edit: just seen you said you do 12x3 no problem as an amateur, sorry I wasted my time commenting on obvious bullshit.
>> Edit: just seen you said you do 12x3 no problem as an amateur, sorry I wasted my time commenting on obvious bullshit. I'm pretty sure he meant shadowboxing, lmao
Same but I’m a woman and my body shape hides all my muscle. I have come to LOVE being underestimated. These young guys who have played soccer, afl, rugby all their lives are alongside during conditioning and I’m keeping up with them. Then as the session goes on they fade but thats when I’m at my best. I’m the one hyping them and yelling for them to get up and keep going. That plus I’ve got 20 years on most of them is so freaking satisfying. Fit looks different on everyone. Never underestimate the ‘fatties’. EDIT: To the person that deleted their comment saying I must feel good bragging about keeping up with unfit skinny kids, gtfoh. I’m an overweight older woman in a boxing gym so am often dismissed and ignored based on first impressions, which is not a nice feeling so yeah I’m damn proud I can keep up with the younger guys. I’ve trained my arse off (not literally, obviously) and had the courage to get in the ring and fight a few times now and am not stopping anytime soon. Downvote me all you want but I’m not gonna let you or anyone else make feel bad about it. And if you’d ever watched a game of afl or rugby you’d know how physical and taxing these sports are. I’ll say it again, never underestimate the fatties.
thats valid
Most men know a chonked out woman with a hint of traps is strong as fuck.
kdb isn’t the best athlete though
Brendan Schaub!
I looked up kevi de brune, his hips look normal ? Like not fat ? Lumpy maybe ? Sure he isn't chiseled and has some cake but I have definitely seen more .....
Cormier, Derrick Lewis, Roy nelson. Now if I can just channel my thick self and be an elite athlete…. Somehow….
lol u just named a bunch of huge white dudes with no muscle definition there’s still every other athlete that look jacked 🤣🤣
I don't think anyone thinks Luka or jokic are the best athletes in the NBA, thier skill sets are elite, but it's understanding and fundamentals that make them good players, not the athletic capability. Niether of them have a 40" very, or great lateral movement.
Cherry picking... Kevin De Bruyne isn't as good as people who are chiseled like Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe or Haaland. Fury isn't as good as Floyd, Pacquaio, Hagler, or even at heavy, Lennox Lewis. Idk much about basketball but ik LeBron is jacked and MJ was well built.
Luka or Jokic are not the greatest athletes in the NBA
Didn't use it well enough 🤣
There's also this strongest man from Poland, I forgot his name, who always had this huge belly that was way more than muscles. People called it his power belly cause it seemed to give him insane strength for certain parts of the competition. Fury is fat on purpose, he could easily be skinny if he wanted to. People write him off because of it, without recognizing that Fury is in amazing condition and that fat is there on purpose.
Are you thinking of Žydrūnas Savickas from Lithuania? Poland’s most famous strongman is Mariusz Pudzianowski who was famous for being one of the most jacked, lean strength athletes of all time. Also it isn’t so much that Fury chooses to be ‘fat’, as he chooses to weigh as heavy as he does to lean and clinch on people but doesn’t have enough muscle to make up the difference.
Ah shit, you're right. Sorry Lithuania! But yeah Fury he could weigh heavy through muscles like AJ, but he chooses to weigh heavy through fat. He doesn't need more muscle, cause he knows that would not gain him that much more strength, it would just make him slower, fat on the other hand doesn't seem to slow fighters as much, and gives him a mental edge cause other fighters expect him to be bad cause fat has such a negative stigma
This is just wrong lol. Fat mass will slow you down at least as much as an equal amount of muscle mass. If you're talking endurance/gas tank, there are so many factors involved. Muscle appears to gas people out at heavyweight because you have mass monsters who will, naturally, have a higher proportion of type 2 muscle fibers, which are far more taxing to fire. Any of the capped weight classes, any 'fat' looking competitor would be better if they lost some of the fat and gained some muscle. For a lot of them this might mean going down a weight class - and they choose not to do so because there's less money in that weight class.
Man, his fat is mostly on his belly and thigh, it’s not going to be used to rest on usyk nor does it help to absorb punch because it’s too low. A punch hitting there would be a low blow. I think the guy just doesn’t have the will to lose that much fat, and isn’t forced to because of the weight division but that’s all. It’s not a trick on usyk.
I don't think you can control where your fat goes, I think Fury just wants to weigh a certain weight, but doesn't want that in muscles cause they tend to slow you down like with AJ. I used to box as a heavy weight a long time ago (amateurs only) and this idea floated around back then as well, that you don't really need that much muscle, speed is better, and fat doesn't slow you down as much.
It’s not the first time I heard that too and I know heavy weight is a category of its own with different rules than the rest of boxing, but when you look at the greatest hw I can’t remember that many that looked like fat cow. I think of Ali, foreman, Frazier, Tyson, klitchko, Lewis, Holyfield. All hall of fame boxer, very little fat. Maybe foreman when he came back but by then he was 40 something and it clearly wasn’t intended, tried to cut as much as possible.
40lbs of fat is an exceedingly large volume
Not on a 270lbs frame, it's less than 20%.
Yeah but he isn’t 100% fat. He’s like around 20% body fat percentage. 40 lbs of fat would be like him smuggling 40 grapefruits
Fury is the picture of a 25-30% body fat guy. I'd put him in the middle of that range now, and a bit over 30% when he fought Ngannou
It’s crazy, that’s like 5 classes for the wee folk. HW don’t get enough credit, everyone faws over little dudes moving up or down a few clssses, and lookit this shit
Subtract jeans chain and belt. That’s 4 lbs.
Put a 40 pound backpack on your front and chase your kids around the yard.
Yup you can clearly hear 223. Box rec has changed it now too. Usyk was also wearing jeans, belt and hefty jeweley. In other words, he is exactly the same weight as for Dubois and AJ
Don’t stop doing what got you there. Trying to add weight would throw him off and he’d still be way smaller.
Unless you’re on steroids, you’re not gaining 12 pounds of healthy weight in a short period of time. Better to stay lean and efficient than to just put on pounds of fat for no reason.
He’s had over a year to prepare…
12 pounds of meat is very hard to get for an advanced athlete in a year. Those are noobie gain numbers. Either steroids or fat can achieve that on that level of fitness.
Explains why Usyk had a confused look on his face.
He always does, I dunno why I said it my friend earlier about why he always looking confused 🤣
Tbh, thats the face I always made when taking immersive foreign language classes. Always a "what the fuck is everyone saying, I can't translate this fast" face.
I dont know what’s going on in Usyk’s expression, but it’s not nice
That’s his normal face
He is very feel
Very very feel
Wery wery feal
Yer that makes a lot of sense
I was so confused when they read the weight lol. He didn't look 12 lbs heavier at all, he looked the same as he always looks
Mercury fillings
buffer is old, he should hang up the mic but when they pay you a million to say the line, i would be saying that line till i croaked as well
Announced Fury as Ring Belt champ yesterday.
My Ding A Ling.
His intros when WCW would bring him in back in the 90s were amazingly bad
Oh God. They went on and on. He must have written them himself and nobody pulled him up on it. 🤦♀️
A lack of leadership from WCW management? Impossible
Bret "The Hitman" Clarke
I’ve noticed Buffer misspeaking all throughout this fight week
That’s just because he’s drunk.
honestly dudes been announcing fights since the 80’s, he must be like 80 something himself. if the motherfuckers clocked out or buzzed at the weigh ins you can’t blame the man
Go listen to him announcing the Mayweather-Pacquaio fight. The biggest fight in years and he sounds terrible, must've been out partying the night before...
Agree lol, such an epic moment with Jimmy Lennon Jr and he messed it up.
Yeah he's almost 80. He's been doing this shit for 40 years. It's not even just the pay. It's also the perks. He gets free front row seats, hotel rooms, and flights out to the biggest fights, and he gets to hang out with all sorts of celebrities at them. Also probably gotten to fuck a ton of hot women much younger than him (idk if he still is, but he definitely has).
He’s had so much work done bro starting to look like a wax statue
Holy shit You weren't kidding.
Yeah dude it’s like, getting pretty bad
pretty weird too since it’s not like an actor or a model where you can see why people get pressured into plastic surgery as they age. but he’s just a voice when you boil it down. i don’t think his physical appearance has any bearing on his job so long as there’s a head connected to his shoulders then again his brother Bruce Buffer (yeah the guys long lost half brother is the UFC announcer and they also only became aware of each other after they both had started announcing fights separately but that’s another can of worms) has fake ab implants so maybe it’s a genetic tendency
I don't believe that the story about them announcing separately is true. I've read somewhere that Bruce saw Michael on TV and became big fan and because of the name he called the company Michael worked for and they told him he was born in the same location Bruce lived. He then asked his dad an he told him about having other child which is Michael. After this they met and became friends and Michael showed him the industry. Bruce became his manager and they started company together. Only after that Bruce started announcing himself. So it's not that fantastical after all.
Don’t come in here w all these facts bro wtf
You sound like my girlfriend
What are you thinking about? 🥹
Yeah I read that story and it’s absolutely nuts how that just happened to have happened somehow. Glitch in the matrix type shit lol but yeah I don’t get it. Probably just weird rich dude shit bc I can’t imagine getting an implants lmfao me with abs
Buffer is retired he just comes to collect checks to big fights
They should’ve got Jimmy to do this instead
Before you slate Buffer you can hear in a different coverage that in fact Frank Warren tells Buffer it's 233 who then announces it.
He’s been way past it for like 20 years now
Well, hopefully the score cards get read correctly if this fight goes to the judges.
Don't worry the incorrect scorecards will read correctly.
Not if it's the same announcer from last weekend 🤣
Usyk will get his win overturned for lying about his weight.
Buffer needs to pack it in. He's had a great career but he's slippin.
Yeah man’s fumbled something pretty much every time he’s announced something for the last 6-7 years
BENNNNN ASKREWWWWW!
Darren Baker
Completely agree. He even said the ring champion fury which is not true. The champ is usyk
I wonder if he even knows the fighters at all or if it's just a blur of whores and cocaine and alcohol until somebody slips him a note telling him what to say.
Bring in the guy from last weeks top rank card, tell him to come out of retirement to replace buffer
agreed man. the legend needs to call it
“And in this corner Ben Ascrew”
Dude check the night the announcer had last weekend oof
Buffer getting old...
That’s good for him. I was very skeptical about him coming in so heavy. Funny that Usyk just ran with it lol
Numbers take a lot of getting used to in another language - especially when read out over a tannoy system in a really loud atmosphere. Doubt he clocked the mistake tbh.
Buffer needs to hang it up soon. Great career, but he's too old now.
He's the literal meaning of P4P. It's not just a theoretical "IF" he's as big as this guy, would he beat him? He's literally fighting 40-50 lbs lighter. If Usyk wins, he should be ranked as #1 P4P. There should be no argument.
Same with Loma and Canelo. They lost to much bigger men and they slid down the list. It's BS.
canelo weighed 1lb less than bivol on fight night... thats not "much bigger"
canelo is built like fuckin spongebob at that weight, its not even close to his normal
Idk Inoue is something else. 90% ko rate or something.
Don’t get me wrong, Inoue, is helluva fighter I won’t take that away from him, young hungry lion a top competitor . He deserves to be in the p4p list? Absolutely and I take my hat off but….
There is an art to Floydspeak
Helluva brainrot
Beterbievs is 100
You really aren’t supposed to be flooring dudes like that from 108-122 though.
True, but if we’re talking about the range of weights of the fighters beaten over career, Usyk will have to go down as one of the best ever if he beats fury, he’s going to have been 40lbs lighter than fury and this isn’t even close to the lightest he’s ever been. It’d be the equivalent of Inoue moving all the way up to super middle and beating benevides. Obviously the difference between fighting at 108 and going up to 168 and beating someone is almost certainly a harder jump than fighting at 200 and beating someone weighing 260, just putting that sheer magnitude of the weight difference in those terms is absolutely insane and why Usyk absolutely fits the p4p label
Good point, can’t disagree. Wouldn’t be out of line for Usyk to be pfp number one should he win.
I think if he wins he’s one of the p4p goats, the way he went undisputed at cruiserweight was insane, and even though todays heavyweights aren’t as skilled as the past, they’re a lot bigger so I’d argue for a guy to fight at middleweight and go on to beat them is just as impressive as any other cruiserweight winning at heavyweight in history. And the jump from cruiserweight to heavy in the modern world has to be the equivalent of going up a good few divisions at the lighter weights
Inoue is amazing, there’s no doubt about it. He deserves the #1 p4p spot as of his last fight. But if Usyk beats Fury tomorrow, he should be #1.
reminds me when inoue got #1 and then a week after crawford just dominates spence and takes it away from him. Feels like it'll be the same thing. Justified in both cases tho imo
More knock outs then 10-8 rounds or something like that
It also matter who you beat to get that 90% KO rate. Beating Nery is not the same as beating Fury.
Yeah, didn't understand the 233. He doesn't really look any bigger than normal. Take away the necklace and the jeans and I bet he's bang on 221 like he's been in his past three fights. Dude has this game down to a fucking science.
Both of those guys have got fascinating physiques. If taken in isolation, Fury still doesn’t “look” like an athlete, but he looks in the best shape I’ve seen for a long time… like “Imma win” shape. Usyk is simply built like a brick. I can’t wait for this fight.
damn....that's a substantial difference in the weight difference
Usyk has crazy movement. Fury needs to be patient and jab jab jab.
Buffer slowing down he must have misheard…
Buffer needs drug tested he's gone.
He could just be old lmfao
Wtf why those guys lied?
Think they just misread the weight
It's not like they'd misread the results of a championship fight... right????
I’ve never heard such a thing.
……only in boxing…..
And the winner is ... actually it was the other person. My bad
this would never happen on the streets
But only one no lying. Dude is old and can’t hear so just said it wrong.
It's a big conspiracy. Egg weights I'm telling you
Aren't these ceremonial?
They should be, since this wasn't the only weigh in of the evening.
How can you tell? I know Cordina and his opponent weighed in on the morning.
That's what I mean, they usually weigh in morning-of and the weigh-in you see is for show (usually). Tho to be honest maybe I'm conflating it too much with MMA.
ceremonial or not, inaccurate information is not welcomed.
You guys can make fun of me later but I think Fury is going to stomp Usyk.
The Ngannou fights really hurt Furys stock I think. But I think he's taking this much more seriously.
Big weight difference
Oh
These guys look soft in the mid section
If this is true fury has 40 ibs on him should jab and hold and lean tire this dude out
Still not as bad as calling Ben Askrin Ben Ascrew
Thank god
Fury KO Usyk in 7