Decoding The Mystical Bewildering Confounding Deceptively Brilliant Juggernaut Paradox.

Still needs to fight his first proper contender, though.


Sure, he was harder to hit against Dubois than he was against Hammer and I'll even grant for the sake of argument that he was more focused on defence in that fight...
BUT - Dubois isn't a massively accomplished fighter yet, he's still pretty green and whilst he's got good potential he just didn't ask that many questions of Joe, it was predictable enough that any experienced fighter with a good chin and decent fundamentals should be able to deal with.
Let's put it this way, there's no way that the Dubois of that fight gets anywhere near winning against any of the biggest names in the division (including Wilder and Whyte) - I'm just not completely buying that this was some kind of ninja defence against a masterful assault.

Joe badly needs to step up and fight someone decent - he's fighting nowhere near often enough and his resume is nowhere near deep enough to carry the claims that are often made about him being a threat to everyone in the division... It all adds up to needing to fight more often and fight someone more significant - whether that's Parker (shame it didn't happen) or whether it's someone like Whyte, Wilder, etc.

He can't be waiting for that title bout and wasting his time on second rate opponents forever, he's too old and too much in need of a stiffer test or two to gain experience at a higher level.

There's an impending risk, I think, that he's hanging around so long taking long breaks between insignificant fights that he risks being a "what if", with his likely loss to Usyk or AJ blamed on his age and inactivity rather than to him having tried to jump too big a chasm between his best win and his failure against the the cream of his generation (a bit like Wilder tried to jump too big a chasm between gatekeeper Ortiz and a legit champion level fighter in Fury).

/IMHO.

 

He could grow old overnight the first time he faces anyone top notch.

 

Indeed, that's kinda my point - the moment he loses, it'll be "he's too old, he would've whooped this guy in his prime" and/or "they waited for Joe to decline before they'd dare fight him".

He looks good at the level he's been fighting at, but that's like saying Wilder looked like an unstoppable KO machine (which he did at the level he'd been fighting at, then he fights his first real contender and even when that guy is rusty and out of shape he's embarrassing him in most rounds).

To be "real" you gotta fight "real" and beat "real" and Joyce hasn't yet - what he might be able to beat is speculative, he ain't proven it yet.

 

All this is great

Unless the first time he steps up to face a genuine Top-10 HW

He is shown to be the stiff slow lumbering behemoth that we all thought.

Maybe there is no "optical illusion"

 

Basically a heavyweight Margarito.....but nowhere near as good.

He is clumsy...he is oafish...he is carried by his chin...I find him extremely unremarkable and very forgettable...I genuinely forget he's around until the weekend of his fights.

I maintain if we were in the 90s Joyce wouldn't be anything near world level....but lucky for him ..he isn't.

 

Reading this post was the closest I’ve ever been to tripping and stoned without actually tripping and being stoned
I saw the music and heard the colors with this one, my man…and it’s been years since that happened

 

Can I buy drugs from you?

 

Yeah, maybe I was wrong when I saw a washed up Hammer land at will on Joyce's face. I guess you'll always perfectly defend punches if you block them with your face...

 

Like Parker you mean?

 

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