Joshua was Price-like exhausted in the 5th round against Wlad

Parker updates just head butt him from the opening bell.

But as I've said many times if you have a decent chin, good power and gas tank, you have every chance of KO'ing AJ.

 

In addition to probably just not being born with the best gas tank, Canelo uses explosive moments in almost everything he does, his combinations, his defensive maneuvers. This takes up more energy. He doesn’t have that sort of relaxed, free flowing movement that guys with elite stamina usually have.

I definitely think it’s a possibility that joshua will always have stamina issues, with his build and maybe not being blessed with the best stamina. Then the only thing you can do is fight accordingly to adapt to your stamina issues.

 

Joshua's tank goes when he's hurt, much like his version 1.0 ancestor Frank Bruno.

 

However Parker elects to fight, I think we'll see a conservative Joshua through the first half of this one. If Parker comes to him early, I see him looking to nullify those tactics and pick his spots rather than meeting him head on and going punch for punch. If Parker goes a more contrary route, Joshua should be content to edge rounds with cautious, restrained pressure, in the knowledge that he's boxing on home turf. As the fight moves into the second half, we should see more of the Joshua we've been accustomed to seeing.

 

The thing with AJ is, he's so big and powerful and technically very solid.. It's hard to get to him and hit him if he wants to step back to get a breather. Only Wilder in windmill mode is probably able to put him down and keep him down once he's hurt, and that's if he doesn't get caught with a bomb when he tried to finish.

 

He did commit but it was sloppy and wide off the mark, he was tired. Wlad finishes him right there from years ago

 

Pretty much how it panned out, except Joshua's bids to lay wood down the stretch were curtailed some by Parker's lack of interest in laying it on the line even while clearly behind in the fight. Joe seemed happy to ensure that he could last the distance and hope that Joshua might walk onto something fight-ending, rather than going out of his way to create it and risk being ended himself.