Shannon briggs vs Anthony joshua

A younger Briggs is a very live underdog here. He was athletic, had the size and power to put some hurt on.
I'd favor AJ, but I would not sell The Cannon short.

 

Asthma vs nerves, tough call

 

Shannon the cannon by absolutely destructive KO

 

Briggs was one of my favorite heavyweight after Ibeabuchi. But I see him more as a great B level fighter than a champion. Y'know, like a favorite supporting actor. A very nice athlete.

 

I think a lot of people may be forgetting that Briggs was absolute and total crap.

Or are we talking about a different Shannon Briggs that I don't know about?

 

Let's go Ant!!!

I tried my best.

 

Briggs was a 3 round fighter, kind of like a more marketable Butterbean. After the 3rd round he only ever KO'ed 4 guys out of 53 KO's. Joshua would just need to wait til Briggs gases out and then takeover and stop him.

 

I wouldnt write shannon completely off here, but the fight is AJ’s to loose…

Let’s Go Champ!

 

Briggs is the real deal, AJ is a fraud. Lets go champ!

 

Joshua.

Briggs NEVER beat a top fighter. Every time he stepped up he lost, and even lost to lower level guys. Except maybe Liakhovich, and he was losing that fight prior to the KO in the 12th.

 

“People give Briggs too much credit for hurting Lewis.”

Briggs came in full of confidence, swinging for the fences. It worked, for a while.

It’s not a bad game plan either. Similar size, similar power, let’s see what happens.

That’s the heavyweight division.

No one has to make weight.

One can go in there and make things interesting

 

Joshua knocks him out Briggs lost to Sedrick Fields, Jamel McCline, Darrol Wilson.

Joshua is a level above Briggs.

 

Let's go champ !!!

 

What is the glory of being a 2x unified champion. The only thing that made him a 2x unified champion rather than 1 is that he lost to a fat, late replacement opponent but then beat him in the rematch. Surely it would have been more respectable if he beat Ruiz the first time and was a 1x unified champion.