This is an especially **** thread from an especially poor troll. On topic though, the kissing bandit has been talking plenty of smack about Joshua like he didn't act like a total ***** when he was he mandatory challenger last time. First he claimed he needed a ridiculous amount of time to get himself ready then he pulled out last minute with a BS injury because he fell out with his management. **** this guy, it'll be good riddance to ugly rubbish when he's taken out of the title picture for good.
1.If your logic is "he wanted only the money", why will he refuse to take the millions because of only 4 weeks for preparation(again, if he only thinks about the money)? Later he risk these money with fights with Dinu and Fury. 2.No matter if you have or you are losing your logical thinking while walking somewhere near the 1st question, why is that changing the opinion for the skills of the boxer? I always thinked, no matter who is beautiful or ugly, muscular or fat, like him or not, if he has the skills, he is dangerous and the win over him is a good win. 3.I just checked the wins of Parker, Whyte, Ruiz who are very high rated here.I didn't see any better wins (dominant) from Ruiz(before his Joshua fight) than Pulev.Ruiz beat shot Dimitrenko in 2019, whyle Pulev beat him when he was in the game 7 years early.Ruiz beat Johnson in 2018, Pulev did the same more dominant year early.That's all for Ruiz + close lose to Parker. Now searching for the clean wins of Whyte - i can't find them.But, if not clear wins, he has good wins, 1 over Rivas, 1 close with Parker, 1 close where he was losing from Chisora before the KO + 1 close he lost to Chisora(250lbs) just 7 months later after Pulev outboxed that same (241lbs)Chisora(make him laying on the ropes in big parts of the fight, average score of rounds in eyeofthering 11:1 for Pulev) Parker has win over Takam(8:4), close with Ruiz and 1 close to draw with Fury(Pulev scored 8:3 vs Fury) So, what we have, against the same opponents Pulev achieved better wins (he and Whyte vs Chisora, he and Ruiz vs Johnson + he and Parker vs Fury). At the end, i'm not saying he is better or worse, but he definetly is from the elite.He become better after changing the promoter and trainings, but now the problem is his stamina, his age.I believe he will take some rounds from Joshua before he will be knocked out, or close fight till the end and wide in judges cards for Joshua.
All Joshua needs to do here is outlast Pulev. I can't see Pulev being any dangerous after round 5. Anything before that is definitely dangerous and Joshua can get hurt and inevitably taken out.
If Joshua struggles at all with the ghost of Pulev then it really underlines how bad this HW scene is. The best Pulev I saw was the one that came out to fire and brimstone vs Wlad, and that was a geological era ago. AJ should mallet him.