In what way was Bruno a better boxer? He was very one paced. Witherspoon was out of shape and sluggish v Frank, that fight was just a brawl and Bruno was wide open, getting caught with tons of shots just plodding forward in a straight line.
I think it would go as some of Bruno’s other fights. He does well for awhile behind his heavy jab and lands some punishing shots, stunning or maybe hurting Joshua in the process. Joshua later comes back and hurts Bruno, and Bruno’s poor survival instincts came back to haunt him. He can’t avoid the follow up barrage and doesn’t have the wherewithal to take a knee. Joshua stops Bruno on the ropes in the mid rounds.
Given that Bruno wouldn't even take a knee at a BLM protest, he could've done with Jim Scott of Wattland in his corner; "GRAD HOARRRLD!!"
I think that Bruno’s jab is the key here. I see him dismantling AJ with the jab and finishing the job with a big right hand somewhere in the middle rounds.
Bruno tended to look good before losing. Rocked Tyson, gave Lewis hell, was beating Smith, but his chin and stamina let him down. I haven’t seen the Witherspoon fight yet, but anyways, Bruno’s competitive early on but gets ktfo in the mid to late rounds.
AJ displayed a better jab than Bruno v Ruiz in the rematch, Ruiz had faster hands than Bruno had, Frank used to miss a lot of right hands, the 1-2 AJ threw against Pulev was better than any 1-2 Bruno ever threw and Frank never stopped any fighter with a 1-2.
Totally irrelevant to say Joshua did better against Ruiz and Pulev than Bruno did against his own opponents. Unless Bruno also fought Ruiz and Pulev as well, in which case comparisons can be made, then your argument points are invalid.
This, pretty much. I think AJ can take Bruno's shots better than the other way around. I still remember Big Frank against Jumbo Cummings - Bruno was really lucky to survive that one.
I can't see any way Bruno can win this one. It won't take more than a couple of rounds for Joshua to start timing Frank's robotic jab. Frank was also predictable and one paced and never went out hard against a live Heavyweight. Joshua tags Bruno who reverts straight to stand by mode in 4 or 5.
Bruno never spit his mouth piece out and quit against ANYBODY........especially against a obese non ranked nobody. If Bruno lands the same shot on AJ as he did against Tyson in the first fight the Bodybuilder aint getting up, I bet my bottom dollar on that.
Bruno would hurt him early on and get him out eventually. People forget that Bruno had tremendous power. He KOed reasonably durable guys like Ribalta, Tillis, Coetzee. Gave Lennox Lewis problems. Stunned Mike Tyson and even seemed to stun Oliver McCall. He didn't have the best speed but he could hurt you. Joshua will be in for a rough night.
Ruiz is better than Bonecrusher was and would have beaten Spoon from `86 and Lewis from `93, Tyson loked pretty sloppy in `89 too, Ruiz has much faster combo`s than Frank had, he never beat a fighter with quick hands like Ruiz.
AJ is younger than Ribalta, Tillis and Coetzee were when Bruno beat then, Coetzer was around AJ`s age but was not a champ when Bruno stopped him, Lewis was all over the place in `93 till Steward straightened him out and Tyson got caught flush cause he was fighting sloppy without Roney in his corner.
That’s just so wrong and as far from the actual reality of things that it’s laughable! Bruno not only had a world class jab but it was also fast and carried more power than 95% of Heavyweight power shots. Frank out jabbed Witherspoon who in turn had shown his own jab to be in the Larry Holmes class, he out jabbed Lewis and even stumped a prime Tyson with it as Mike bobbed and weaved his way in to throw his left hook. The left jab- overhand right and the 1-2 were Bruno’s honey punches along with a very understated right uppercut. People who don’t have any real experience of Frank Bruno’s career often do this, they underestimate just how fast and powerful, how accurate and considered Big Franks punches were!