David Tua.. Anyone Else Think He Would Knock The Crap Out Of AJ?

Any aggressive, come-forward power puncher poses a significant risk to Joshua.

Yes, Tua is generally overrated - just not, by and large, in the domains of front-foot aggression and power-punching.

 

Tua got outboxed x2 by Hasim Rahman ffs! A cautious AJ outboxes him comfortably imo.

People always overrate big punchers but the truth is Tua was only a moderate talent who couldn’t win a strap in the alphabet era. Tua brought zilch to his title shot vs Lennox Lewis. A heavily hyped disappointment about sums up that fight and Tua as well.

 

Tua def. has a chance, but how much of one?

AJ could opt for the Ruiz 2 stay out of harms way strategy but he still appeared so leery and vulnerable executing that game plan.

Super Fat Andy Ruiz met AJ’s strategy at least half way - disgusting the shape he came in for that fight.

Against Tua, Lewis performed a clinic - out of harms way but still landing sufficiently powerful warn off shots. Lewis, far more capable and, in fact, durable than AJ.

I think Tua needs land only 1 or 2 big shots to give AJ a case of the “Kenny Nortons” - AJ then hurt and, consequentially, falling apart mentally, unable to mitigate the effects of the initial damage and disruption to his game plan -

 

Depends on which Joshua, PreRuiz Joshua would probably take the win but this version of Joshua would fold after the first danger from Tua...

 

Six or seven years ago, I doubt I'd have given Tua much of a shot (against the post-Wlad AJ). However, Joshua has proven to be limited and vulnerable enough to justify a doubt, in my opinion.

It's not a fight I'd immediately see as a betting opportunity, but the right price on Tua could be a value for money punt.

 

Or you could say he destroyed Alphabet Title king Ruiz in thirty seconds ..... it's alll styles ..

 

Cheers mate!

 

Tua at his pre-Ibeabuchi weight (220) would catch AJ in the 1st round with that money punch (the left hook).
Tua at his post-Ibeabuchi weight (>235) would probably catch AJ with that money punch, between the 9th-12th round, similar to how he blew out Hasim Rahman, Oleg Maskaev and Fres Oquendo.

 

Out of all.pf the modern super-heavyweights I think AJ is the most overrated.

UK press adulation, being perfect for BLM as a spoksperson and spouting racist ****, he was a media darling until a human Michelin man beat the living **** out of him.

Harsh?

Yes I know.

 

I'd favor Joshua from Ruiz 2 to get home but i wouldn't stake anything big on it.

 

Sometimes he was aggressive.

Sometimes he followed guys around like a puppy dog.

 

Ferg, I think Mr Joshua (sadly) probably, probably outboxes Tua after showing him his power, Tua just follows him around shelling up.

 

Joshua is not stopping the human tank. That"s for sure mate.

 

Although I picked Joshua this is one of those thread titles that deserves a yes and a no.

Tua would knock out Joshua ....... some of the time. In a ten fight series I think Tua would win three of them by KO and lose the other seven one way or another. Hence my choice for AJ.

 

I don’t think so either, I think AJ just hits hard enough to make Tua blink the way Lennox did. I don’t think David was very good at cutting distance so if you get him thinking about the long range artillery you can shut him down.