They got to Usyk.  I can’t believe it.

Sure he’s  a helluva fighter, but I thought he was an honorable man too.  You know, not a lying dog-faced pony-soldier.

What am I talking about?  You missed it, did you?

After the fight, he was asked if he felt Dubois’ power.   His reply? “No, only in my balls.”

Umm, he didn’t hit you in your balls.  We all saw that, it was on TV.  Look, there’s a photo.  He hit you on your belly button.  If Usyk had made reference to the “low blow” he could have preserved some credibility, but no, he said “In my balls,” which is clearly false. 

And Usyk appealed to him (the ref) several times through the fight, complaining of low blows that weren’t low.  What was up with that?

First, we had Kownacki, then Kossobutskiy last night got DQ’d for low blows… Oh yeah, there was Golota (twice) and Sharkey too. (In 1930 Jack Sharkey hit Max Schmeling in the bean-bag, and was DQ’d, giving the title to Schmeling.)  So I guess there is a long history of low-blow fouls in prominent heavyweight fights.

No, wait a minute, this was not a low blow, it was right on the navel. Dubois knocked him out, and should be champ.  He legit knocked him out.

I was glad to see, when I searched for “Usyk vs. Dubois” and clicked “images” this morning that the first twenty or so pictures were all of the shot that put Usyk down.  Seems like a lot of folks see that as the real story.

Is it possible that the ref thought it was low and called it the way he saw it?  Sure.  Stranger things have happened.  Isn’t it also possible that he was influenced by the tapeworm to steer things Usyks way?

What have they done to boxing? It used to be so transparent and fair. (Ha-ha.  I make a funny joke.)

Meanwhile Tyson Fury is donning a tutu and some ballet slippers and is preparing to fight a non-boxer, probably in never-never land, ignoring all ‘mandatory’ challengers, and no doubt making a butt-load of money by not doing his job.  His job is defending his title.  He doesn’t want to do that? Fine, let him relinquish it, the great wanker.

At least we have Zhang / Joyce 2 to look forward to. 

As for the other fight, they rolled out a tomato can for Anderson to beat on.  I bet with a friend on which round the KO would take place and correctly picked 5, so I get lunch at the restaurant of my choice to look forward to too.