What are the technical flaws in Anthony Joshua's boxing style?

Leaky defense - Will show big time against a taller rangier man in Fury who has quicker feet

Slow feet (Doesn't need quick feet against most heavyweights who are plodders or who hold their feet & stand in front of you)

Bad stamina (Although he does have the ability to get a second wind, this man can gas out almost instantaneously at any moment during a fight)

Bad mentality, Something that seems to become more apparent day by day.

Not adaptable.

 

Fury won’t hurt him.

 

We will see about that, about that we will see.

 

The high guard is a great mode of defence when used correctly. Many Euro level guys would shell up and take a lot of hits on the high guard , thats why its not looked upon on elite level defence.. But when has has AJ ever blocked all of his opponents shots with the high guard? Maybe when he was gassed out against Klitschko , but not normally.

He uses a his legs and a high guard together to employ multi layered defence. He has his guard up high to also catch and parry jabs. .. I don't see why keeping his guard held up high is anything to be critical about.

Spence and Canelo both use the high guard.. Mayweather introduced the high guard into the highest levels of boxing. . In fact he exclusively used the high guard in a lot of fights , especially against south paws... Joshua's defence is better than how you describe it. He has more ways than one to defend against punches. Ruiz rematch is proof of that.

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I would agree to an extent with all the talk about head movement and whatnot if we were talking about a WW or MW(and even then one shouldn't get too hung up on it, JMM and Mikey for example are also quite stationary with their heads and they're both excellent technicians, but we're talking a 6'6 240-250 lbs fighter. For me his main flaws is that he holds his chin a bit high and don't bring the right back well enough after punching.

But on the whole is the most technically pleasing I've seen a guy that size. Good balance, pretty good guard, good stiff jab, throws every punch well actuallym even though the uppercut is the best, and very nice tight combos.

 

Not highly flawed but his too upright at times.

 

He needs to fight competitive fights vs Ruiz III, Wilder and Usyk and Fury.
Then he will be interesting and easier to evalue his skills.

 

On it's own high guard isn't in itself terrible but often it's hiding a deficiency, not always but usually it is from what I've seen. If you can roll with the shots like Winky Wright then it's effective, even more so if you combine that with good movement like Inoue.

Spence isn't exactly elusive, we know he has a good chin because well, we've seen him hit quite a bit. Canelo uses the guard combined with great head movement, for him he's one of the rare examples of it not being used to hide a deficiency in head movement like we saw with fighters like Smith.

Yes Joshua uses his legs too to take advantage of his height and reach but lets be honest he's not a great mover. Sure he looks good vs Ruiz Jr and Pulev who are even less agile than Joshua but against Povetkin he had his defenses breached repeatedly, his movement and high guard were not enough.

I'm not saying Joshua is defensively terrible like say Whyte or Bowe for example, as I said C+, above average but he's not some defensively skilled fighters by any means. But luckily his has that height and reach and his offence makes many wary to really test his defence because he's always one good counter away from ending it.

 

His chin is made of mushy heart material and his heart is made of fragile chin material.

 

I will laugh my *** off when Joshua totally destroys Fury and will bring this old thread to show some people how little they know of boxing.
You don`t somehow win 3 major(4 total) HW belts being highly flawed fighter, and actually defend them like 9 times. You don`t get KOed, and then somehow improve in a no time and straight away and come back to win the rematch convincingly pretty much losing a round or two.
His last fight is just finished, and i would have think people would have an eye, and see how good Joshua movement(not only his feet, but his body movement as well), but no, they just criticize, not see how good and improved he actually was.

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Go check round 3 again, 1:52 Pulev throws left hook, Joshua duck under it, i guss the specialists here don`t think you got to move your head to duck under hook, right ? Joshua is one of the best to avoid hooks, but somehow he doesn`t have head movement at all, o dear.
They think head movement means "fashy" moves ...
And then again same video at 2:01, Pulev tries to land his jab(which actually is one of the best in the division and he can`t do a **** against that "stiff robot with no head movement" ....

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At 3:50 is perfect example. You know what body movement means?
There was a plenty of times where Joshua was dodging punches with his "nonexistent" head/body movement.
But yeah he got no defence.
Joshua is stylish nightmare for Fury.

 

But Fury run scared to death from that old Klitschko, right? And he did it twice, right ?
Joshua was ready for the rematch, unlike Fury, who throws his titles away, what a great Champion he is.