It perplexes me why a boxer of his caliber is so limited in terms of his arsenal. No combinations whatsoever, no uppercut to speak of (though by some unknown miracle he managed to throw one tonight), just the same 1-2 with an occasional looping left hook and clinches. Even his set ups and his movement are all so mechanical after a couple of rounds his opponents can probably read him like a book (a more legitimate opponent that is). Stranger still is that he has an amazing amatuer background so realistically he should have mastered every facet of boxing yet he sticks to the same formula. Now my first guess would be that fighting in a weak era has allowed him to get away using so few tools but even when he was young it's not like he fought vastly differently either.
Also, no body or inside game either, imagine if he had those tools how much more effectiver a fighter he'd be. He could set up his punches in more ways, he could give his opponents more to think about.
Hand/foot speed, footwork, timing and defense exist. He can only have a single punch in his arsenal but he's still going to beat a lot of people if everything else is superior.
I think it what cost him the fight, it works against smaller men but against bigger guy like Joshua it's come to bite him in the ass. Joshua was able to survive because Klitschko could only depend on the right hand and all Joshua had to do was look out for it.
I mean Joshua was ready to go after he expended his energy, he wasn't defending, he wasn't doing anything, how Klitschko didn't capitalize on it astounds me. Same goes for after he scored the KD himself.
Wlad likes to control the fight from the outside. Uppercuts, body shots etc, are inside fighting techniques. Wlad will go all 12 rounds jabbing, and throwing right hands if his fight goes according to plan. When he could outbox the guy from the outside is what you seen vs Fury. Fury schooled in everything a thrugh z
Simple, he was hiding the fact that he was that tired, and hurt. Wlad has a far better poker face. If you think Wlad didn't get him out of there because he's "limited", you don't know what you're watching. If a younger Wlad had him in that exact same position he would have teed off on him and stopped him. Wlad wasn't as tired as Joshua was in the 6th, but I could tell he was exhausted, and he barely threw any punches. He did use a lot of movement, but clearly age was a big factor in his stamina.
And look at Joshua, he had a variety to his game that Klitschko just lacked, the two times Joshua started letting his hands go is when Klitschko was made to pay. I think Joshua is exactly what Klitschko should be fighting like, the only downside of Joshua I think is that he's put too much mass on, I think he sacrifices too much on stamina and speed.
When watching the Wlad and AJ fight Wlad was just so good at moving in and out of range and showed fast hands and footwork. Also wlads reactions were good.