Usyks high ring IQ, better skillset and greater will to win, will be the difference here. Joshua will do that slow feet gassing routine he does and Usyk will stop him late.
Usyk for me. He can outbox AJ all night and wait for the suspiciously muscle bound big gut to gas, which it will, then pick him off.
Problem with your scenario is Usyk will not be putting AJ on the backfoot unless of course he's willing to take a good few right hands which I can't see, OU was on his bike against 11 losses Chisora you really think he's going to hold his ground against Joshua ??
Genuinely interested to hear your opinion on why you think he didn’t gas against Pulev, Ruiz (2), Parker, Takam and Klitschko
Joshua is british cash cow. He is cash cow nothing more. Most likely he will beat Usyk, on MR cards he already had won. A.J might perform worse if he had been tested in US, we all know this.
He gassed against both Klit and pudding pulev in the mid rounds, and fat blob ruiz in the first fight
He did gas against them all, apart from Ruiz 2, the fight where Ruiz came in at 25st. Can't believe you don't think he gassed massively against Wlad, if Wlad pushed more for the finish he would have got him out of there. AJ was done for 2 rounds. He gasses during every fight for spells. Obviously the heavier he is, the more he'll gas, and right now with that 'swallowed a beach ball but still have a six pack' look he's rocking, he looks heavy.
He gassed badly against Ruiz in the New York humiliation and the Klitschko fight before the old man ran out of steam himself late in the fight. You don't need a gas tank to beat the other 3 puddings
Hearn said Joshua was training hard for the Fury fight which was going to be in May, then June etc. If that is so why is he not ready to fight until the end of September? Has he been overdoing the "strength and conditioning"?
I think Joshua should come in light, similar to Ruiz2. Trade off a bit of power for as much endurance as he can manage. A slim Joshua probably still punches a bit harder than Usyk, and if it looks a competitive fight, which it should be, then Joshua just needs to survive until the end to get the nod. Usyk on the other hand probably knows he has to go looking for the KO.
Joshua might be hampered due to Bellew's tongue being wedged up his butthole, that's my main concern for him vs Usyk.
