TACTICAL BREAKDOWN! | Anthony Joshua vs Kubrat Pulev | Johnny Nelson & Spencer Oliver

I cannot think of two pundits less suitable to discuss tactics

 

I'd like to see these fights, fingers crossed thay come off.

 

Pulev has an even shakier mandible. Watch both their fights with Klitschko.

 

Here’s my breakdown:

Pulev will lose.

 

Repeat, only fail on Pulev's chin was from a still prime WK who landed two huge bombs on him. Ruiz hits the canvas if they land on him also; he tasted the canvas from a Joshua left hand that didn't have as much tnt on it.

 

Klitschko from the Pulev fight puts away Jsohua in round 5. Joshua doesn't get out of that round.

 

Same power shots. Landed the same left hooks in round 5 against Joshua that he managed to drop Pulev with. Conclusion? AJ has a stronger chin than Pulev.

 

Wlad @ 41 and 18 months out the ring vs Joshua, reasonable to conclude he knocks out Joshua mid rounds when in late prime like he was vs Pulev. Joshua's chin is not good whether it's on par with Pulev's or not. Was hurt multiple times in that WK fight, and had it wrecked by the Snickers King in the Garden.

 

Dont forget Ruiz survived to a right hand that would have dropped a bull soon after the KD.

 

It had full force behind it but not sure it landed totally flush. Ruiz saw it coming unlike the left hand that dropped him. The left hooks were what done Pulev in the WK fight. I don't think Joshua has the same speed or technique with the left hook or that Pulev will make the same mistakes he did in 2014, we'll see tho.

 

No Joshua definitely has a good chin. You think most heavyweights can take those left hooks and straight rights he was taking off Wlad? Wilder would have been slept by most of those shots. Ortiz would have been slept as well. Klitschko is a top 5 puncher in heavyweight boxing history.

 

What time will the main event actually start here in the states?

 

Klitschko Of the pulev fight would have slept aj.

But they are very different. Wlad was way faster than aj in his prime. Look how he jumps in with his left hook, for his size he was very fast in covering distance and with his hands. I have never seen aj jumping in with a left hook, his skills are not enough for that. Aj is a combination puncher in close distance.
I don't think that he will beat pulev that easy. Pulevs jab will annoy him big time. Imo pulev has not enough power to really hurt aj. Pulev will lead on the scorecards and get clipped and finished with an uppercut and then a combination from aj before the 10th

 

Joshua ends the fight whenever he decides. Left hook ,right hand, uppercut. He will have a field day on a sitting duck like pulev. No headmovement chin high up in the air is pulevs trademark. Just simple facts. Look i usually have soft spot for the underdogs but this just too much to even hope for a pulev upset win.

 

The same could be said of Wladimir Klitschko who had a similar physique and like you mentioned Mike Tyson, I would also mention Frank Bruno, Lennox Lewis, Shannon Briggs.