Do you think Tyson Fury would outbox AJ the same way he did to Wlad? If the answer is YES, then you need to consider AJ's chances against Wlad again. Wlads last 3 opponets. Lost to Fury by UD Won Jennings by UD Won Pulev by brutal KTFO Jennings went there to survive and not to fight. Jennings is athletic and mobile. Its hard to KO opponet who doesn't want to trade punches. Pulev went forward and the result was brutal KTFO loss in 5th round. Really! Wlad has only lost to Tyson Fury in the last 12 years. Tyson Fury showed masterpiece boxing skills that could easily beat your boy Joshua too. Joshua is too stiff and robotic to catch Fury. Has AJ ever fought 12 round fight? NO! He has never went past 7 rounds. Joshua don't know what to do when the fight goes to later rounds. Big question mark. I'm more confident to see Wlad getting the victory.
Wlad is coming off of a long layoff where he was already declining prior to his most recent fight. We are going to see a new level of shot in this fight.
I have two questions for aj One what round are you gonna ko waldo ? Two after you ko waldo do you think hes going to go crying to big brother ?
I hope Joshua has another fight quickly after Wladimir. Too many boxers have long layoffs after losses and never get back their full motivation. Hopefully he learns from his losses and improves like Wladimir, and does not go the way of Sultan Ibragimov, or David Haye after their loss to Wladimir.
AJ would flatten Fury IMO. Style wise he suits Wlad, if hes not shot to bits he has a great chance of beating AJ
the old addage styles make fights. fury style was a huge problem for wlad 1/ because he did not expect it / fury had been an all action fighter before the wlad fight 2/ it was a strange fight of call my bluff / fury would feint /wlad would buy it and back off and nothing happened. 3/this happened nearly the whole 12 rounds and wlad never thought **** it plan a is not working lets go to plan b and try to walk through fury. there was simply n against joshua / joshua is not going to fight solely on the outside / it will be a fight of who can establish a jab and land a bomb . can joshua take away wlads jab and catch them on the gloves and counter can wlad disguise a jab and turn it into a left hook and catch joshua and ko him ala pulev dont know which is why its an intruiging fight.
Fury boxed Wlad's head off (and people tried to cheat him multiple ways) Wlad will box AJ's stiff bodybuilder head off Wlad will head off into retirement "on top" Wilder will tweet some nonesense Fury still remains king it does not default to bumsquad or AJ.
No, Klitschko can be gunshy at the best of times, probably from bad experiences when running out of gas earlier in his career. AJ wouldn't settle into Fury's kind of pace as easily.
The thing is, people shouldn't rule out the distinct possibility that Anthony Joshua goes out there and boxes extremely cautiously and wins a decision over the old man. AJ isn't known for that, but it wouldn't be a bad strategy at all. He's stepping up and has to start thinking a bit. I wouldn't expect AJ to be as confusing or awkward as Fury was to Wlad, but he probably has the speed and reflexes to box well against a Wlad who may well be way worse than he was last time out !
That Fury loss had more to do with him not knowing what to do. That was an ugly fight between two men being too cautious, I wouldn't use "outbox" to describe anything about that fight lol. But Fury clearly won.
this is exactly what i beleive will happen / although i think wlad will be better thaN last time out. v jennings and fury wlad had to iniate the action and he prefers to box steady counter and keep a distance. joshua needs to take him out of his comfort zone and if he can he will increase his chances of winning.
