What makes you think that Joshua will beat Wlad?

I've said this a thousand times. The first 1-2 Joshua eats... he'll be kept as honest as a saint.

 

i just feel like an old aging fighter like wlad is going to succumb to the raw athleticism of the young buck.

prime for prime wlad kills him but i think he may have slipped JUSSTT enough

 

I'm just not convinced that Wlad will be able to take too many shots from Joshua
You could say that the reverse is true with Joshua's unproven chin but I just feel at this stage of their careers, Joshua will be able to get his shots off faster and land first.

 

Pre

Pretty much this^^^
It will come down to how much wlad has left.
Just like the Haye fight, everyman and his dog thought haye was going to blast bellew out of there. Everyone was thinking of the haye of old and that guy just doesnt exist anymore.
vlads style is more suited to the ageing fighter but well have to see how much father time has caught up to vlad

 

wasnt haye doing really well before the injury ? i barely have any interest in heavyweights and did not watch that fight

 

quick hands. Ive said since this was announced it will come down to hand speed. These are 2 very physically evenly match fighters who do all their best work off a jab and who ever controls the jab controls the fight and I think AJ has the quicker hands added to alot of power and Wlad will learn this in the 1st round and go very defensive again and not engage like he didnt do against Fury.

Dont want to discredit Wlad but he has slowed down, he is at or very near the end. Dont get me wrong, i think there could be some serious flaws to AJ,s game and if im wrong about the hand speed then Wlad is the one guy who can really ask the questions we have been waiting to be asked of Joshua but i honestly think it comes down to the very basic matter of hand speed and Joshua has the faster hands and will beat him to the punch.

 

Wlad's old and been inactive. His jab isn't what it was either.

 

Joshua being a 1/2 favourite with the bookies is INSANE. Joshua can win, but he does not have the skills to beat Wlad the same way Fury did, he's going to have to knock him out, and no-ones done that to Wlad for over ten years.

 

Both match up well, with each other. But it was not like Wlad was beaten up brutally, and stopped in his fight with Fury. The deciding factor is defence, and experience. And I think Wlad is too seasoned as a pro, to exploit Joshua's mistakes. Anthony isn't going to fight the cowardly way like Fury. He'll be right there to get hit. Wlad feeds on these type of fighters.

 

Because his jab and grab wont be effective once again as he's fighting someone his own size.
He was terrified to throw vs fury who isnt a puncher,and surrendered his title like an out and out *****.
People claiming wlad has slipped because he is relluctant with or wont let his right hand go lol,wacth his last 10 years of fights,he never did.
Jab grab jab grab jab grab till smaller oponent is dead on his feet then take him out.
If he hits aj with a 1-2 hes got every chance obviously,hes a big man with tons of power,but aj is big favourite in this fight.i recon in round 2 or 3,wlad cant take ajs power full stop

 

2 reasons:

1.Joshua has the hand speed and power to finish off any heavyweight in the world.

2. We really don't know how much Wlad has left.

I'm still picking Wlad for the win but I am not overly confident.

 

I think a fair score up to and including the 6th rd a second before the injury would of been a draw.
Bellew definatly won the 1st rd then the rest could be argued for either man. Id have no problem if someone had haye up a rd.
All in all he was probably doing as well as bellew, which if you take the pre fight expectations into consideration, you could argue that haye wasnt doing too well at all!

 

41 years old and hasn't fought in 18 months. Looked badly diminished in his previous 2 fights.

 

1. Too old
2. Too slow
3. Too inactive
4. Too much raw power of Joshua
5. Too tentative