Uncle Jimmy Young vs Anthony Joshua 12rds

I don't think Young has the offense to keep Joshua off him. Young can make it competitive but i think Joshua's relatively quick hands and long reach will enable him to land enough to win a clear decision. Competitive but clear.

Joshua is quite hard to beat unless you have above average power which Usyk does and Young didn't. Young is one of the best heavies not to win a world title BUT he does not have the offense to trouble the larger longer armed Joshua.

Joshua UD, 8-4.

 

As said above, AJ is a hard guy to beat when you can’t chin him, he takes the decision here.

 

I think AJ gets underrated. People act like any big puncher would beat him. Well he did beat Wlad and Povetkin. Yes, they were past it but they hadn't lost their power and they did catch him clean.

AJ is a good fighter. While i think truly great punchers who had good skills would beat him more often that not, i can't see slick boxers with average or below average power beating him.

 

I blame Hearn and Warren for not getting us Joshua-Wilder and Joshua-Fury. They really thought they could delay these fights ala Pac-Mayweather for years and make money down the line. Little did they know a clever Ukranian would move up and spoil the party. Truth is Joshua-Willder and Joshua-Fury should have happened before Usyk moved up at all but didn't due to greed.

Agreed. I hope Joshua finishes on a good run.

 

To be fair, it was Wilder who refused to fight AJ many times, not Hearn's fault. Fury vs AJ was signed for August 2021, but Wilder won the arbitration. So again, kinda Wilder's fault. Looking at the fact Wilder's camp refused to fight Klitschko as well, Deontay sabotaged undisputed at least 3 times. That's crazy.

 

Yeah, 100 million for Breazeale and 2 AJ fights, because he had a better financial plan and didn't want to fight on DAZN, lol.

 

Jimmy. Jimmys is someone that really would have benefited from his big fights all being 12 rounders and could beat basically anyone if they were 15.


13 of Youngs 18 losses were 10 round decisions or shorter as were the 3 draws. While hes 2-3 beyond 10 rounds the 15 rounders were close losses to Ali and Norton and the 12 rounder was when he was 33 and lost to undefeated Greg Page.

AJ lost the 11th and 12th to Usyk in both fights. I think if those fights were 10 he'd have still only gotten a draw in one of the fights. Is my quick math there right? If AJ couldn't beat Usyk over 10 he can't beat Jimmy Young over 12 at least not anywhere close to Youngs peak. Admittedly that peaks one of the shorter ones but when he was 25-29.

 

In 2016,2017 they were waiting for Fury to be gone long enough for it to be for the lineal title which wasn't going to happen right away. They didn't know Fury was coming back at first. Then when Fury came back Wilder got that fight. Then they drew so there needed to be a rematch. After Fury won the rematch Fury and AJ got a deal done but Wilder sued to get the trilogy. Then Usyk entered the picture.

They all deserve blame for not fighting contenders but Furys vacation really got the ball rolling with all this dysfunction.