Anthony Joshua is the real deal

What hours are you on here from? I mean are you payed well for being a moderator?

 

I post during the weekdays because my job is boring and requires little of me.

...and then 90% of my posts come on Sat. nights, mainly in the RBR threads.

Zilch. (which is only slightly less than what my actual job pays me :!

 

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTE3NjcxNzAw.html

This was just a very short while ago. You can hear the narrarator already crown Price the first HW Champ from Liverpool.

I will reserve judgement until AJ truly steps up.

BTW i had to dig deep to find that vid. Just like with Haye's pathetic career the powers that be removed or made threats to uploaders to have vids removed from youtube to hide there shame.

 

Joshua is by far the most talented of all top-50 heavyweights under thirty years of age.

(Perez, Wilder, Ruiz, Szpilka, Fury, Hammer, Muralimov, Parker and Martin being the others...before long, as the previous generation exeunt, the championship picture is going comprise the above ten names, plus whatever new blood is coming up behind them - as in, guys currently in their late teens or early twenties, probably still in the amateurs)

 

So you've lost all hope in Dinu?

 

Might want to check out Muralimov/Orlov IB...... Muralimov barely managed to get the nod, and by many accounts Orlov was very unlucky to get the decision. Not really optimistic about Muralimovs future.

 

We've been over the reasons Joshua is less apt to go bust than Price did.

Price had multiple RSC losses compared with Joshua's mere one. (granted, Price had a longer amateur career, but Joshua's was nearly all top shelf competition)

The men who stopped or buzzed Price weren't all big hitters, whereas Nistor is.

Even when he was undefeated in the pros, most were calling Price a "poor man's Dr. Steelhammer". Joshua has a style of his own, which always was more pro-suited and has been evolving into a very dynamic one since his debut; he's nobody's clone, and isn't one-dimensional.

Joshua is nearly as big as Price, is faster, less robotic, and every bit as powerful. (and more offensively versatile)

 

Who wins the Anthony Joshua vs deontay Wilder?

 

Yeah, all my excitement has pretty much burnt out down to wick.

He isn't serious about the game, I don't think. He fought poorly in Bigger's Better and was just lucky the rest of the field was so bad. The fact that he wasted so much time on that when he was already in a no-time-left-to-waste situation back when he first popped on everybody's radar suggests he will never dedicate himself enough to fulfill his potential.

 

Joshua, by KO.

Gold > bronze. :deal

(kidding, of course - a medalist is a medalist and guys with bronze have beaten guys with gold in the pros before...not to mention, some would argue Joshua oughtn't have gold...but for a host of legitimate reasons, with all due respect to my countryman, he gets put to sleep in epic, humiliating fashion by Joshua)

 

I'm going to give him one more chance, he did relocate to Canada and started Stephan Larouche who of course is known for training, and bringing other well known Romanian fighters(most notably Bute) to prominence. This is a step in the right direction I think/hope. We'll see.....

 

:deal

 

You mean Bronze vs Golden Gift.:deal

 

Didn't know about that, actually! I haven't really kept up on him in a while.

The obese Russian's fairly useless (or rather, more obese, relatively) so that's a bad sign.

Shame, because Muralimov has pop (ask Ola Duradola, or former Russian HW champ Alexey Varakyn, whom Muralimov destroyed in a minute flat in an exhibition...) and comes from the excellent Uzbek amateur program. Then again, Odlanier Solis came from a country with an excellent amateur program and had the world at his feet but ate himself into mediocrity. It seems Ahror is well on his way to becoming another what-if fat boy. :verysad

 

Yes...but Olympic successes aside, they're both wearing big kid gloves now instead of pillows, and not wearing headgear. Joshua by early KO. :deal