Joe Joyce possible replacement for USYK - Joshua

Once again, people seem to be incapable of processing Joe Joyce... I'm still not sure why it's so hard for people. The man clearly has the ability to adjust his style per his opponent. Like GGG, if he feels like he can withstand the power, he will happily take one to land three, and plays the part of the proverbial Juggernaut. He gets away with this quite often, because he's got a damn good chin and most of his opponents while heavy handed, aren't savage KO artists. But when he has someone in front of him with a decent skillset and power, he takes his time, slowly breaks them down, uses his jab immaculately, and yes, picks off, parries and rolls with incoming fire excellently. He barely took a clean shot from the fairly fast Dubois. He's quite malleable in the ring, and the fact that people fail to see this perplexes and kind of amazes me, especially when it's people who should know a thing or two about this sport. People say he's too slow. Really? The man's pressure is suffocating, he cuts off the ring brilliantly, his hands may be slow, but his feet are faster than Ruiz's. Who exactly has been able to play stay away with Joe? No one.

If there's ever been a person who the term "looks can be deceiving" applies to, it's him. Because evidently most who watch him, he deceives them. Reason, logic and all rationality freeze up, and they can no longer process what they're seeing. Maybe his bizarre slow-fast speed causes people's brains to implode, they look at him and none of it makes sense, they can't process why what he's doing is working so well. But, his punch selection is quite diverse, his combinations, while slow, are fluid, and oddly enough, the slowness, plays into his favor. The opponent sees them coming a mile away, they put their hands up to block the shots, then when an inch away from landing, Joe adjusts the trajectory, and lands anywhere he sees an opening. His offense being his defense, is also quite applicable here. He short circuits his opponents, because he does subtly vary up the speed on his shots in close. So while they thought they were defending, he lands, which provokes a reaction, they reflexively try to defend where he just landed, presenting him with another opening or two, rinse and repeat. It's all due to his off kilter timing and rhythm. Think I'm crazy, go back and watch him. He does this all of the time. Even the missed shots he lands to the shoulders and arms take a toll. So after a while, all those thudding short shots start adding up, it's like being in a room with a pitching machine, flinging little gumball machine rubber balls at you for an hour. Each and every one of those ****ers hurt, eventually your arms start cramping up and drop, you'll no longer be capable of defending yourself and you succumb.

Joe will KO Joshua, it'll be death by 1000 cuts. He'll take the Dubois approach early, then as AJ's gas tank depletes from the pressure and the facial damage from the jab mounts. The Juggernaut will come out to play, punches in bunches will be coming at AJ from every angle, battering him senseless until he wilts into a quivering muscle bound heap along the ropes.

 

When AJ looks in the mirror at his reflection he sees a 245lb Ali staring back at him whereas in reality it's Herman Munster.

When Joyce looks at his reflection in the mirror he sees Herman Munster staring back at him but in reality it's actually a Ali/Herman Munster hybrid.

AJ inhabits a realm of delusions whereas Joyce inhabits a realm of illusions and evidently these illusions cause a lot of confusion to those that DKSAB.

Why do people continue to believe their own eyes when they're lying to them?

If you haven't got your head around the concepts of Slow-Fast Speed and Rigid-Slickness yet you never will