What do you expect is Wlads gameplan?

Wlad jumps off the canvas so he can push guys backs down into their legs.

Everybody knows this. What are you trying to tell me? That Wlad don't clinch? hahah lolololo.

He clinches and molests everybody put in front of him. Look at both Peters fights and Chambers too.
Poor little Eddie was carrying Wlad on his back- piece all night long.

They don't call him the Grabamir Clinchko for nothing.

 

He WILL clinch and you will see it tomorrow night in glorious HD in front of a global audience of millions.

 

Double jab joshua until rd 6 then go for ko when joshua starts blowing out of his ass...

 

Wlad will not fall back into trying to clinch unless the fight is going badly for him. Joshua will be too big and strong for that to work. I suspect he wants to take Joshua beyond the 8th round and see if those muscles get drunk on lactic acid in rounds he's yet to experience outside of sparring.

To do this rather than over-commit from the get-go, surely Wlad will try and establish his jab and keep Joshua at range. Joshua may get twitchy if he doesn't get to land bombs early on and start to load up, so I'm guessing Wlad will want to minimise how much they engage in the first half of the fight, make Joshua miss and see if he gasses. That said he will not miss an opportunity to take advantage of Joshua's lazy right hand and look to land lefts if the chances arise.

This fight might well be the reverse of the normal script when old face-off with new; with the older guy planning on youth tiring first.

Not saying I think this will happen, but I think Wlad will be looking to take this long...

 

I think Wlad is going to go what Haye tried to do to him and what Fury did do to him. Throw very few punches, not engage and use 'movement' to shut down and spoil Joshua. It is risky because Joshua isn't going to gass out from that gameplan so there will always be a chance for the big KO.

 

Wlad is not a counter puncher. It will be a tactical fight for the first few rounds. Johsua will a litte bit unsure about himself and Wlad has a glass chin. Wlad will wait for a mistake of the younger fighter.

 

Then you are clueless. He's excellent at setting traps and exploiting them.

 

I think it depends on Joshua, if he's passive then Wlad will work behind the jab and use his superior movement to rack up rounds, if he's aggressive then Wlad will look to counter and catch him like he did with Pulev.

 

Not at all. You do know what counterpunching is? Floyd, James Toney and Benitez were for example mastercounterpunchers. Wlad uses his height and foot to avoud punches.

 

Not in the Haye fight. It was Haye that was deducted a point for falling to the floor.

 

Wlad clinches because he can not take a punch. He clinches also against bigger guys, see what he did against Fury. He can not fight on the inside and that is an issue against bigger guys.

 

WTF happened here?

 

So a tall fighter can't counter punch? How dense are you?

A counterpunch is a boxing punch that immediately follows an attack launched by an opponent. It exploits the opening created in an opponent's guard.

 

No he won't.

YDKSAB as always. If he does, he's an idiot, and Wlad's no mug. AJ is far too strong for that.

He's going to box at range and try to use movement to fluster Joshua and try to set him up for the big straight right.

 

Post of the thread ^ He knows what's up.