What are the technical flaws in Anthony Joshua's boxing style?

Never moving his head, freezing in place when caught with a big shot, almost exclusively using a high guard for defence, never using shifts or pivots, telegraphing his punches, unable to create awkward punching angles with his feet, generally rash decision making such as blowing his wad trying to finish guys then being totally knackered and unable to defend properly, has poor enough stamina but that might be improving, doesn't use feints well at all, his chin is shaky at best and his recovery pretty shoddy, his heart is to be questioned at times and he's not fantastic at fighting tall. He's basically not the most intelligent fighter, real meat and potatoes type of guy.
What he does right is that he stays nicely balanced while punching and has exceptional punching form plus nice combinations to complement that skill. He can now jab and move, usen't be able to move while punching at all. He's a good inside fighter for a man of his size and he has a mean uppercut. The most obvious thing is that he has legitimate fight ending power because he's quite explosive. His handspeed is pretty damn good too.
That's all I can think of, think it covers pretty much everything.

 

Klitschko and Ruiz showed his flaws.

if he gets caught with a good shot, his legs turn to led.

His recovery is terribly slow and sluggish.

He has a bad habit of emptying the tank and needing a few rounds off to fill up again.

 

Bad head movement, tends to go back in straight lines, not great in the clinch, really weirdly slow to recover from being hurt (I swear it was like 2 rounds in the Whyte fight)

 

"Big stiff idiot"

 

No head movement and when he throws his combination he literally stand still like a waiter waiting for the bill. Its probably how he gets so much power as his feet are so planted when he throws those combinations.

By the time AJ throws, Fury would have landed two jabs on his nose and stepped out of range.

 

Lack of head movement, anyone that adopts a high guard like him is forced to use this most basic guard because they lack head movement, it's always a warning sign for me about a fighters defensive capabilities. Joshua's defence in general is poor, he gets away with it a lot of the time because of his size and reach but we'll see when he fights the bigger Fury just how easy he is to hit because of his very basic defensive skills.

Movement is poor even now. Yes he can box and move a bit but he all too often even now he just stands right in front of his opponents because he simply forgets to move after throwing. Wlad over came the same flaw by learning to clinch and spoil after throwing, unless Joshua learns to move laterally more like Vitali, Lennox and Fury do, he'll need to add this to his style or he'll always be in danger of being countered. His tendency to just be rooted in one spot also means movers will give him trouble.

Telegraphs punches, especially the right hand, it's been a flaw since he's turned pro and it's still an issue and why he's so vulnerable to left hooks.

Stamina and work rate. That maybe improving as he's coming in leaner than before and he showed vs Pulev a more conservative approach where he ensured he didn't blow his load the first time he had Pulev in serious trouble.

Lack of focus at times on the actual boxing. Fact is he should of never lost to Ruiz Jr he's simply on another level. He says he didn't underestimate him but it's hard to believe that when you see what he was doing in the build up for the first fight. He was more intent on selling his brand in the US than his opponent, had he been more focused on Ruiz he would of known the threat he poses on the counter. Wlad was a big influence on Joshua when he trained with him as an amateur but he's no Wlad in terms of mental focus and consistency. I suspect he's more like Lewis and will occasionally lose focus and get upset vs unheralded opponents.

 

You don’t achieve what he has if you’re “highly flawed.” Has his weaknesses but highly flawed? Cmon.

 

Joshua has hardly been hit in his last two fights against top 10 heavyweights. Doesn’t have poor defence that’s a myth.

 

Both those guys shorter than him and not as agile, as I said he gets away with it because of his size advantages. His defence is very basic, high guard, keep opponent out of reach and the odd parry that's it. In terms of defence I'd give him a C+. Luckily for him he has other attributes that make up for his basic defensive skills.

 

That’s a lie. He recovered pretty quickly against Whyte and was throwing back within 15 seconds of taking the left hook.

 

Joshua wouldn’t have been hit 127 times by Otto Wallin but this site will give Fury an A++ for defence I bet though.

 

Fury fights down to the level of his opponent, how many did Wilder land for example and we honestly don't know how Joshua would do vs Wallin other than he would win, let alone how many punches he would land.

Lets compare vs the same opponent. Wlad landed 52 punches vs Fury but he landed 94 vs Joshua.

 

He's reinvented himself since his Garden tragedy but dear old Pulev didn't have the key to the door.

 

Not this “Fury fights to the level of his opponent” sh*te. It’s Fury fans go to excuse to explain his bad performance it’s embarrassing. Why can’t they just admit that Fury struggled with Wallin because 1) Wallin was motivated to win. 2) Fury struggles with aggressive combination punchers with decent reaches 3) Fury looked past Wallin and thought he was another Schwarz.