Joseph Obey Joyce vs. Zhāng Zhìlěi & Denzel Bentley vs. Kieran Smith RBR.

that would be bad for his team he was outfought all fight and it took a ref to save him from going down in the second. they will stay far away from Zhang.

 

I am just stating that Zhang deservedly won and you saying it would be different if he wasn`t cut and Joyce would have taken over in the later rounds is irrelevant.He lost fair and square

 

You know how commentators are, David.

There's bad commentators and there's....

























...worse commentators.

 

Whatever man.

 

If Zhang were to land a clean left, it would probably persuade Usyk to avoid that punch from then on.

 

Hopefully he can get his rematch in and have an opportunity to get back to mandatory before the belts splinter. If he loses twice to Zhang then there won't be anything to complain about.

I'm think the AJ Ruiz 2 on his bike for the first 6 rounds approach is the way to go. The problem is a tiger can't change their stripes at 37, I don’t think Joyce has ever had to fight that way before.

 

Objectivity, caution and remaining poised wins those kind of things. Being reckless and emotional doesn't. We'll see. But rebuilding at 38 isn't easy. Doesn't look very good for him with a loss like this at his ripe age. Even if he's able to get one back on Zhang he'll probably be in his early 40s if/when he gets at the belts.

 

yeah the left could not miss. accumulation no lucky cut here

 

It's more likely that it has increased his chance for a title shot.

 

If Zhang was 5 years younger and didn’t gas in his previous fights I think a lot of people would have picked him.

I did think Zhang would hurt Joyce whose chin was vastly overrated after facing Parker and Dubois who didn’t land anything notable. Joyce didn’t really set the pace though to cause Zhang to tire.

Joyce was lucky that Howard Foster stepped in during round 2 or he could have been stopped then.

 

Told you all a long time ago that Joyce was being overrated on this forum.

Zero defence

 

Joyce showed he could not jab with Zhang throughout the fight he was slower.

 

The swelling was caused from Zhangs left which was landing frequently, and it's not as if Joyce was winning the fight. Definitely not a fluke scenario.

 

As i said all of that is irrelevant