usyk doesnt look so amazing now after watching joshuas last 2 fights ...

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What an elegant way of saying he's got his head up his ass.

 

Usyk is a tad overrated for me. Joshua is clearly a shell of himself. He's not been able to pull the trigger for quite a while.

 

Forget Ruiz. Let’s be honest, AJ wasn’t the same guy after Wlad. Dude was a savage before and during the Wlad fight, he’s only got worse since. Funny thing is I think most expected that fight to elevate him.

 

How many cruisers are able to beat a top 3 heavyweight that's 50 lbs naturally bigger than them?

Usyk went into the first fight as an underdog. He wasn't supposed to beat AJ.

 

I'd go as far as to argue it was actually when he got dropped by Klitschko.

 

50 pounds bigger than them?

 

The Ruiz loss certainly robbed Joshua of some confidence, but Usyk really did a number on his self-belief.

He looked worse against Pulev than against Povetkin, but much worse in his two last fights than he did against Pulev. Last night was a step in the right direction. He looked just dreadful in the one before that.

 

Could be. But the fighters he faced before Wlad were in general so much worse than the one he faced after (who was at least decent) that it's hard to say what's what.

 

That fight with AJ made him a superstar.


He knew that he will beat AJ, always.


Usyk was bad in the first two fight at HW, against two very limited boxers.


Let's see if he can handle Dubois as well as AJ.

 

Spence wasn’t overrated but dude def was not the same after the crash. Dude literally lost his teeth and was in a coma. His resistance was gone.

 

These guys are just dumb. Boxing history if full of banana peel moments like Joshua/Ruiz, but AJ was back in the ring later that year and righted the wrong in decisive fashion. He was able to look in the mirror and convince himself that it was just a bad night and that he's still the man. He couldn't do that after losing to Usyk the 2nd time, he had his best moments in the rematch only for Usyk come out the very next round to dominate him. Joshuas narcissistic self-image was shattered after that Usyk fight - he finally found a man who had his number, and no amount of mental gymnastics could get around that fact(hence the meltdown). It can be argued that the Wlad and Ruiz I fights had a slight impact on how he fought, but they didn't totally shatter his psyche like the Usyk fights did.

 

I thought Spence was going to win and become number 1 p4p and there would be nothing but excuses from people who backed Crawford.