AJ is far bigger than Gassiev who has never knocked out a well trained heavyweight, his power is unproven at heavy.
Usyk is smart enough to not fight stupidly. He can still fight in a more aggressive approach once he fully breaks down AJ and he can go for the stoppage. I doubt that he would really stand up close the entire fight and giving AJ a chance to hurt him, he would be foolish to play that game.
. Hope its going to be like Lewis v Vitali. ( I suspect it will be) AJ already said he is going to make the fight dirty so its going to be a lot of fun especailly if Usyk comes in there for war, bang and not box. There is going to be a knock out this time. Both guys have nothing to lose keep throwing till the other man drops. This is what we want - screw boxing. I want a WAR!!! This is going to be 100x more fun than any of Furys fights.
Nah he will box his little head off again. AJ has to be more aggressive so the fight will play right into Usyk's hands.
Usyk will crack his chin early just to raise the demons in AJs head, then out box him pretty much like last time but with plenty of hard counters, then by around the 8th he will step it up and have AJ out of there in the 10th, that is my prediction right here and now.
I think usyk is skillfull enough and smart enough to go to war with Joshua and be able to see his slow looping shots from a mile off and avoid them
Then again Usyk may be using a deeper pre fight strategy with this talk. AJ's people may 1st say: "He's going to do what?" Then they may say: "He's using misdirection and is going to actually do the opposite and box AJ." Then Usyk shows up and does exactly what he said he would do.
When his under pressure he When Joshua is under pressure he gets wild and throws looping telegraphed shots and he will be under pressure against usyk
Maybe, I think he`s hoping Usyk loses and will wait till the rematch v AJ, Fury doesn`t want to fight Usyk he wants big paydays v Ngannou and AJ.
Reach, yes. Power...see Serge. He has a nice list of quotes with a number of heavies and trainers saying Gassiev is the hardest puncher in boxing. And though they both have nice arsenals, Gassiev's is a bit better.