Joshua Wincing in the corner after Round 12 vs Usyk

Cool. Your opinion doesn't really hold much weight, you have ensured that.

 

He’s just exhausted, nothing more to it than that!

Usyk sets a ridiculous pace and for the most part Joshua went with him even if he was getting beaten to the punch. The last round was a tough one with Usyk stepping on the gas to ensure he got the point and secure a points win. In doing so he emptied what little energy Joshua still had in his tank which left Joshua gasping at the end.

While we’re at it let’s get something straight, Usyk didn’t beat up Joshua, he didn’t hand him a sustained hiding or demoralise him. He beat him to the punch throughout, he out thought, out manoeuvred and he out worked him leaving Joshua completely perplexed by the end of the fight.

Looking at the facial injuries of the two fighters you’d be forgiven for thinking that Usyk had lost the fight and not Joshua! It’s unusual for Olexander to suffer such facial damage so Joshua must have been somewhat successful even if it wasn’t enough to win the fight.

Usyk won the skills battle, he won the energy battle and ultimately he won the fight with his strategy and fabulous ringmanship. He did however get caught quite a bit as his facial injuries betrayed and he did get rocked a few times which saw him retreat and cover up. This happened against a Joshua who wasn’t trying to overpower him with power shots. Joshua needs to have a moment of clarity like Fury did in Round 12 of Fight 1 and see the way to defeating Usyk. Ironically it’s a very similar way to which Fury beat Wilder in Fight 2.

I’m not suggesting that Joshua just go in there and go all out for a KO but he does need to mix his undoubted skills with his unquestionable power and be the bigger man in the ring! Even then, Usyk is no Wilder and, unlike Deontay, Olexander could still find a way to win.

 

I wince when I take a dump. Am I like Joshua, or is he like me?

 

Holds more weight than yours that’s for sure.

 

You just need to find a decent proctologist and get them hemis taken out.

If that's too expensive, add more fibre to your diet and spring for the better quality wipe-tissue.

Life is painful, but suffering arse-agony is optional.

 

Usyk should have stepped on the gas earlier and stopped him.

 

Having the final bell ring when it was supposed to ring -- to wit, not five seconds early -- may well have helped Usyk's cause.

 

Definitely rang a few secs early with Usyk on the brink of laying him out cold for all the world to see. He'd have been twitching on the floor and not wincing on his stool.

 

The crazy thing is, if you look at him when both fighters are centre ring waiting for the judges' scorecards - and this is a good few mins after the final bell - he's still gasping for air. His breathing is not remotely under control and this is despite him fighting cautiously.

One way or the other, there's no chance the rematch goes 12 rounds...

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Apparently while visiting America, Joshua said to Shields that he suffered a torn bicep. Ronnie Coleman came in the gym apparently, and jumped on the bodybuilders arm while he was bench pressing. Threw him and told him to get his ass out of the gym, and into a boxing one.

 

Usyk beat the dog out of him and made him into a little poodle.

 

Hence his truly bizarre rant in the video with Kugan. Joshua is mentally shot and he knows it.

 

Joshua has always had stamina issues, and mentally he reacts badly to fatigue.
There were times in the Klitschko fight where he was wincing and then smiling desperately, knowing that he was there to be taken, the expression that he knew he could not really go on if Klitschko pressed him. But Klitschko was too old and too cautious to capitalize.
At the end of the Ruiz fight, Joshua quit while smiling in a bewildered exhausted state.

To me, it seems ....
Joshua doesn't hide it well when he is fatigued and in mental distress, he doesn't relax and fall into a survival instinct, he simply feels embarrassed (hence the sheepish smile) and perhaps a bit sorry for himself.

Still, he's a good fighter and I would not write him off completely just yet.

 

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Like a man possessed!