{"id":224972,"date":"2025-10-25T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224972\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:10:07","slug":"the-biggest-threat-to-oleksandr-usyk-and-plenty-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224972\/","title":{"rendered":"the biggest threat to Oleksandr Usyk, and plenty more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\">Love the mailbag \u2014 always appreciate how you break things down beyond surface-level takes. I\u2019ve got a question about the word \u201ctalent\u201d. When people say a fighter is \u201cmore talented\u201d, what does that actually mean in your eyes? Are they referring mainly to physical gifts like speed, reflexes, and power \u2014 or does it also include things like natural instincts, rhythm, timing, and ring IQ?Some guys seem \u201cgifted\u201d physically but limited mentally; others don\u2019t look flashy but seem to have every intangible working in their favor. How do you define talent when evaluating? Can you give some examples of both? Also, right now who do you think is the most fundamentally sound boxer in the world \u2014 not necessarily the most talented, but the most technically complete from stance, balance, and punch selection perspectives? Who\u2019s the most \u201ctalented\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love the mailbag \u2014 always appreciate how you break things down beyond surface-level takes. I\u2019ve got a question&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,10078,21474,6566,4036,101,95944,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxingscene","10":"tag-gervonta-davis","11":"tag-jake-paul","12":"tag-oleksandr-usyk","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stephen-edwards","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}