Joyce may get dropped or bombed out but I doubt it will be by some 6'1-6'2, 200-210 lbs fighter with a sub-20% KO ratio. If it happens it will...
Very few if any champions in history have fought contenders and champions as consistently in their backyards as Usyk has and probably none came...
"I don't understand why people criticize Joe Joyce for taking so many shots" Part of it is the belief that the accumulation of damage will soften...
Lists some fighters with "a pulse". It's meaningless rubbish. All of those reasons are plausible considering he's proven he can box much more...
I don't rate "big George's" relatively small, overwhelmingly American opposition from 50 years ago nearly as highly as you do. I also don't rate...
AJ was dropped by Whyte and stopped by Nistor in the amateurs. Wilder was dropped once as a pro in 43 fights prior to Fury 2, all the rest is...
I just watched it again. Joyce didn't look hurt but he got stagged by the initial flurry and then put on his backside in quick succession. If you...
Yes, he has massive advantages over 70's "big George" that no amount of nostalgia can bridge.
Kuzmin's shape varies but it's irrelevant: he was a 250 lbs star amateur, not some unknown LHW or journeyman like the guys who KO'd or put Ali...
Kuzmin had Joyce down twice iirc. Joyce's facial expression never changes but his legs weren't under him.
Ali got stopped in the amateurs a couple of times too and not by 250 lbs monsters but by LHW's.
Joyce was much more defensively responsible when he fought an athletic, dangerous puncher (Dubois) than he has been against washed up journeymen...
I agree: Joyce would never get dropped/stopped by pillow punching cruisers like Ali and Jimmy Young.
Joyce is basically Foreman but 2 inches taller and longer, 45 lbs heavier, with a fantastic engine and the ability to move well when he wants to....
Wilder had less than 30 months of boxing experience when he fought Romanov (5 days after a 4 round war with star amateur Chakhkiev, who Wilder...
