This content is protected Hearn at the end being quite salty about the Joyce dubious fight when he says neither has fought above British level. hold up eddie you sold Rivas As a dangerous opponent for Whyte off the back of him beating Jennings who Joyce beat as well.
I can't see how Parker and Whyte are puddings when they have better resumes than Bakole, Wilder, Dubois, and Joyce. Whilst Fury hasnt beaten anyone in top 40 in 4 years. Pulev is a live opponent and aguably has the best jab in the divison. Pulev resume is better than Ortiz (who is Wilders best win). I hope the winner of Fury vs Wilder fights one of real top guys in the divison such as AJ, Whyte, Parker, Ruiz, Hunter, Povetkin and Pulev but i cant see it. They will either milk it and fight each other for third time or if Wilder wins he will fight Kownacki Or if Fury wins I think he will fight Miller.
Great fight! An experienced fighter against a young powerful lion, until recently I thought Dubois would knock out Joyce, but the fight will be hard because Joyce had a fantastic amateur career and a lot of fights while Dubois is still young and inexperienced...
Yeah, I think Dubois speed will be the difference in this fight. I expect Dubois to jump on him and take him out quite early. Gets really interesting if Joyce can stand up to the punishment though.
I'm all but counting him out to be honest. I think Frank has had a good long look at Joe and concluded much like: I just think Joe is too slow and will be walking onto what is now looking like a very destructive, well honed heavyweight jab. DD has made strides in this last year or so and I think that combination of young legs, hard jab and concussive power is going to prove too much for a guy who is nearing 34 and has a lot of amateur fights on the clock. The best evidence for this viewpoint is the fact that this fight is happening. DD has been very carefully matched at every stage of his development and in JJ I think Frank has identified someone who has name recognition sufficient for the British market but who lacks the dynamism to threaten his man. Doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to it, but I think this will ultimately prove a comfortable win for DD and JJ will not make much further progress, unless he can still get the EBU mandatory shot?
Pudding Parker - look at his tame effort against Tony Dosh PPV, stinker against Hughie Fury and his obliteration by Whyte. Eh Day says 'it will be a great fight' and PPV mugths keep forking out for a few bags of loot to watch the most boring boxer in the Heavyweight Division. Pudding Pulev - I was in the Hamburg O2 World in November 2014, when Wlad on the slide, battered him all over the arena . A total plodding pudding that made Jab, Clinch, Jab look like the best of Ali, Tyson and Lewis in their primes. Too many recycled puddings mate that are plodding no hopers and somehow they accumulate many bags of PPV loot. The only Pudding soon to move out of my list of puddings is Pudding Whyte who is at least improving and comes with ambition. It is very rare for me to de Pudding a fighter but Whyte could be the one.
Glad this has been made "great fight for the fans" as old Frank would say, would favour Dubois late stoppage given how awkward Joyce can be but Dubois has improved considerably in the past year. Not so much looking forward to the presser though there should be count of the amount of fully formed completed sentences there are during it, we'd be lucky if there were about two.
Joyce is open for that right hand all night. Stiverne landed quite a few on him and he punches like a sloth
I was surprised in a recent Boxing Life Stories how open Adam Booth was about Joyce being so slow. I guess he couldn’t really say anything else without looking stupid, but I did respect him for his honesty about one of his fighters.
I find Joyce really hard on the eye, he is incredibly slow for a professional boxer, every punch telegraphed, yet he is still undefeated, faced some decent enough opponents and so far so good, sort of. I can't see past a Dubois win, either late stoppage or on points.
