Anthony Joshua's inside fighting skills

Hes a good blitzer, but he never got inside to do that either. Joshua almost exclusively has had success at mid range in his fights. He's had one good outside boxing performance against Ruiz the second time around and two meh ones against Parker and Takam but I've never seen him show inside boxing skills consistently. It appears in tiny flashes at most.

 

Then by your definition Joshua is a good inside fighter, several times he moved in and out of range getting up close leaning on takkam and swapping hands. Joshua is a boxer puncher like Canelo but they can fight well on the inside as Aj can use tight hooks and can throw faster, far more powerful combinations than Fury. If they were to fight in the pocket Joshua would wipe Fury out.

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Good combination punching does not equal good inside fighting. He doesn't fight on the inside often at all, it'd be too tiring for him as it requires a lot of stamina. I'm yet to see how he'd defend at that range, yet to see how good he is at mixing up to head and body at that range, same goes for seeing how he handles clinch fighting or having someone pressed right up against him and leaning on him. It's just not his style, I don't even think that makes him a bad fighter, just not an inside fighter. You do realise I actually fancy Joshua to do the job on Fury if Fury doesn't get everything right? I have the odds close, 60/40 in Fury's favour max, more like 55/45.

 

Why would he play defense against Fury. Thats the worst possible thing he can do against Fury. Joshua should exchange with Fury immediately when givin the chance. I just showed you a video of him slipping, attacking, moving in and out of range, and mixing up his shots against Takkam.

What your trying to get out is that Fury is going to drain his stamina in the clinches and that Fury is the superior in fighter but he's 260+ for that to be effective and when he weighs that much he doesnt have quick hand speed. Did you not see his speed against Wilder in the second fight ? If Fury does indeed exchange with Aj he's coming off second best.

For Fury to infight against Aj he has to come into midrange where Ajs quick counters are. Aj is not Deontay Wilder. Pray to the gods Fury tries to box at range and does not attempt to go toe to toe with joshua

 

Also yes you're correct mike tyson was a midrange fighter like Joshua but could take things on the inside like Joshua. Fury was an outboxer but with the Kronk he can fight mid/close range effectivly. But from what I've seen Fury would get destroyed provided he attempts the same thing he did on Wilder against Joshua. Joshua is better up close while Fury is far better at long range there isnt much debating that.

 

I didn't say he should go defensive, it's the last thing he should do... AJ's best shot is to counter Fury at midrange where he specialises.Also you can pretty much avoid mid range to get inside by slipping or clinching, Fury could probably beat him there but it's also not his game at all. He'd probably potshot from the outside and could possibly gas AJ too, let's be honest, AJs gassed enough times for us to know that's a weakness that can be exploited.

 

Yeah I'm not like miniq claiming he's going to bulldoze Joshua, Fury knows himself knows he'd want to be cute and use a nice jab and grab style in an effort to matador Joshua into exhaustion for a possible late KO or relatively easy points victory.

 

Fury is 6'7½ he isn't Mike Tyson and Aj isnt Deontay Wilder. Fury usually Slips to avoid attacks on the backfoot. One of Furys tendencies is the times he does try to slip to get on the inside he ducks a punch and tried to drive his head into his opponent, ask Klitschko what happened when he tried to duck a left hook from Aj. When fury walked Wallin down a LOT of times he tried to duck and drive his head into Wallins chest. When Wallin hurt Fury he tried to duck and hang his head low to avoid attacks and smother and clinch and got caught with hooks and uppercuts. And With Aj Furys going to have to worry about more than a right hand

 

12 round to work that out? dont be daft

If someone is punching you, you'll know within seconds if you can take their power

Not 30 plus minutes!

More like he was desperate at that point and went all out

 

Admittedly, not many blows were thrown...from either boxer but the ones that were would have given both boxers an idea of each others respective power

To say he didn't engage until round 12 is wrong
He just didn't engage a great deal

 

Johnson was awful but AJ does have good hooks, I still feel Fury will be too tough for AJ on the inside as he is harder to hit on the inside.

 

Fury has the power to stop AJ I`m not saying he will, but his shots v Wilder were extremely solid.

 

He was to busy out-boxing Wlad with superior defense to Wlad.

 

Oh dear people on here calling pretty much the best active fighter with the best inside fighting game a guy with poor inside fighting ...
And a guy claiming he is training boxing, yet he knows nothing of boxing. Jokes on this forum keep getting better and better.
This guy mean close fight/inside fighting is only when you are on the clinch, pushing your heads, leaning, feinting and trying to land .... God save them ....
Hooks and uppercut is all close/inside punches. Joshua is master at that. The guy is throwing devastating hooks and uppercut on the inside.
Saying Fury have better inside fighting, just show you how little you know of boxing and how biased you are.
I mean i will laugh hard, after Joshua KO that clumsy big gypsy.

Watch some tapes to what is close, mid, long range punches before talking nonsenses and become a laugh for everyone.

 

I don't consider either particularly good inside fighters, but it doesn't matter, they haven't had to have too many inside fights. Anthony Joshua is a better aggressive textbook fighter, where as Fury is a good strategist with an odd herky jerky style which is hard to read and sometimes fights more defensively and sometimes more aggressive. AJ hasn't really had to fight on the inside, but he has shown as fighters get close or as he closes distance is that he has good short crisp combination punches. Fury on the other hand knows how to clinch, push, shove, place his weight and tire his opponents. If they were to fight on the inside it will get ugly quick and the ref is going to separate them a lot.

In general inside fighting has gone down as a skill set for this generation, and is basically none existent amongst heavy weights.