If AJ gets another shot at Usyk...what could he do differently?

No one can beat prime Usyk. Usyk from Gassiev fight is unbeatable. Hell maybe Usyk from AJ 1 fight is unbeatable.

Current Usyk is 37 years old, and his best days are behind him. This is clear. Even in the second AJ fight, it was more to Usyk being on the decline, due to age, wars, etc, etc.

Now saying all that. AJ always improve his game and find where he make mistakes and try to get better. He is the only in the HW division that does that. Maybe Parker as well.

If they fight today i think AJ will win, due to Usyk age and decline, nothing else.

As far as what is different with AJ and what he can do differently i think we see one big difference in him compare to the Usyk fight is and that he is going hard to the body with the backhand. He was mostly jabbing to the body before to set up the right hand on top, but he is now using the straight right to the body, and that shot literally kills Wallin. He is also using his attributes more now. He is using his range, his height and his reach now more, which is obvious. He reduce the hook and uppercut thrown, and it's focusing on his jab and straight right hand. I think he improve overall his game. Prolly has better defense, footwork, speed, power, explosiveness, strength, all of it. But that is to be expected. He is in the prime of his career and it's pushing hard for it. he will be like that maybe this and next year, and then goes on the decline.

 

Don't try to outbox Usyk (which was never going to work.) Bully the smaller man. Make it an ugly FIGHT. Not a boxing match. A FIGHT. Dig hooks to the body from the start of round one. Rough him up in clinches. Make every punch count.

Ben Davison has already said he'd love to get Joshua in the ring with Usyk again.

Davison has Usyk figured out. (Everyone does, now.) Even the WBC is demanding video replays for the Fury-Usyk fight to determine if a blow was to the groin or now.

If someone has a great chin, they tend to have a weakness elsewhere. With Oleksandr, it's his glass belly. And Joshua spent the previous 24 rounds (with other trainers) trying to jab and outbox him.

You don't try to turn a natural KO puncher into a boxer, particularly when he's the bigger man.

 

AJ could only beat Usyk if he significantly declines IMO.

 

Only age is what can stop Usyk beating Aj
He's getting old

If Aj flattened him.next year? I would still class him as better, he proved it twice already

Aj is still physically in his prime, unlike usyk and Fury. Though I still stink both beat him, it is as one sided now and Aj does have a chance

Edit

Just to be clear, Usyk would still win at 90%
Aj beating former sparring partner and a punching bag has no bearing to how he performs vs usyk

Just shows what careful match making and being fully prepared can do

Let's see him in with Parker and Hrgovic and see I he can blow these guys away

 

He could lose faster

 

He could get stopped next time. He is never beating Usyk.

 

He could hope Usyk declined enough.
Usyk is on the wrong side of 35, so it's not out of the question.

Let's hope he does not get another shot at Usyk. There was absolutely no (fan friendly) reason for the second fight, let alone a third. There are more interesting fights out there.

 

Throw leather !

 

Sounds like we're already making excuses for Usyk just in case huh? There's no guarantee this fight will even happen again pending the outcome of the Fury fight. I'd love to see it but I've got a feeling we're only getting one of the 2 possible fights after that. Usyk is a good enough fighter that no one needs to cover for him this far in advance, you guys need to cover for these fake low blow tactics he pulls instead.

 

Nothing. Usyk is all wrong for AJ. Any year any month. Any day

 

Nothing, he can't beat Usyk. I liked Joshua and always thought he was a level above Fury and Wilder, even back when he lost to Ruiz. I've always maintained that he'd KO Wilder and the Fury fight would be close to 50/50 though I'd think he has a stylistic advantage. That being said Usyk is just better, if AJ opens up the way he did against Ngannou, he'd get countered and slept by Usyk. The same way I believe AJ is wrong for Fury, Usyk is wrong for AJ.

 

When would AJ even end up fighting Usyk? Usyk has a two-way rematch clause with Fury, they will fight again after the first fight and look how many delays emerged just to get to fight 1? Who knows when fight 2 will really happen.

Usyk will probably be at the point where he should retire after the Fury series win or lose.