A.J via stoppage win. The same vs Fury. UD point win vs Ruiz or Ruiz will KTFO Usyk cold. Then he as former division cleaner in backyards might move back to CW and get stopped by Dorticos and Briedis, werestle****ed in clinch by Okolie and retire as clean, cleared cleaner and beater in backyards.
I'm not sure Fury wants to be knocked out. He's rather make BS title defenses, like the one coming up vs TBA on December 7th.
You don't have to be a big puncher to ko aj, you just have to get inside and catch him with fast combinations like ruiz did, which usyk is well capable of doing. The problem he is going to have is how long it will take to get his shot at the title, it may be 2022 before he gets his shot, his hand and foot speed will be further diminished by then.
Ruiz has a granite chin and a strong inside game with ridiculously fast hands. He had to take some amount of power punches before he got close enough to even hurt a complacent Joshua. Usyk can’t take those shots. AJ stops him.
Not after last night no. Which sucks, I want someone to challenge Fury, put him through his paces. It ain't happening though. Can't come at Fury with them arm punches & no jab. AJ will put up an ok fight for some rounds but is getting dominated. Hopefully Dubious can make some large leaps over the next couple of years and give Fury a fight before he retires.
Usyk also has a solid chin and strong inside game, he has taken big shots from heavy weights before and been fine. I am not saying he WILL beat Joshua, but he has a legitimate chance.
Yeah and Usyk didn’t keep Chisora off, he just used movement to avoid what Chisora was bringing, AJ would stop Usyk, we know about Usyk’s angles, but AJ would not allow Usyk into mid range tours his angles, it would look a lot like the Loma vs Lopez fight except AJ stops him somewhere after the 6th
The power of Usyk and Chisora chin is getting a bit tad overrated from last nights fight. You know why Chisora didn’t go down? Maybe it was because those solid flush punches just wasn’t as hard as people are making it out to be. Yes Chisora felt it as any Heavyweight would if they are solid crisp combos by a 217 lb. Usyk is still a 200+lb fighter. If yoh can land 3, 4 , or 5 solid shots in a row you are going to hurt the bigger man. Do I see him doing this to AJ ? Nope. He doesn’t have Ruiz power.
Exactly.. I feel everyone overrates Ruiz. Joshua dropped him with his first combo got careless thinking he had him and got caught which done him over for the rest of the fight. Is everyone also forgetting Ruiz is a plodder with slow foot speed? Usyk will do what Parker did but with more finesse and getting caught less. Ruiz best attribute is his hand speed and combos. He's pretty mediocre at everything else.
One possibility is that AJ does knock down Uysk at some point but Uysk has enough rounds in the bag to still win. Think Fury-Wilder I here where Wilder knocked Fury down twice but it was still a draw.