Which heavyweights from the past would stand a chance against Anthony Joshua?

How far in the past James?
If we were to go back to the 80s and before, I am not sure that any would beat him.
I think prime L Lewis, V Klitschko, W Klitschko, T Fury could all possibly beat him at this point in his career, but it is not fair comparisons as Joshua hasnt had many fights yet. I wouldnt bet against Joshua in those either though. He has got his career off to a great start and been very impressive

 

Your lifetimes achievement huh? What a sad deluded loser.say hi to your husband tommy robbo!

 

A very sensible post. Nice one

 

The ONLY boxer capable of beating Joshua (according to British fans) is the GREATEST fighter of ALL time. . . . and that would be the man who could defeat Fedor, Bruce Lee, all of the Gracies, would destroy Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Muhammad Ali on the SAME night!. . . .and that would be the one and only God's second son: David "My-Toe-Hurts" HAYE!

 

"Which heavyweights from the past would stand a chance against Anthony Joshua?"

Stand a chance? Hundreds.

 

'This kid is just a big strong novice lucky to be fighting in this era."

Take a look at this fight of Foreman fighting a 200 pound guy and WATCH closely at the slow mo replays how easy foreman gets hit,throws off balance wild punches and has no head movement at all. Watch this short fight bc thats how he fought and joshua would not lose to anyone like this and win in easier fashoin to anyone Foreman fought.......even in his 17th fight.

Joshua Lucky in this era though,because we know those journyman 200 pounders would be far more threatening in itself right? Learn the basics first though right?

Everything you stated is backwards .He even has to keep shoving illegally to get the guy away from him for room to punch bc his legs were too stiff ,but lets go ahead and pretend Joshua is under skilled and wouldnt stand a chance,when in reality its those other guys you listed that would be in serious trouble.

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I could show you a 100 weaknesses I've seen in Joshua many times over. But it wouldn't change your opinion. Using a moment in a video to somehow prove your point, shows me at least how flawed your opinion is. Anybody can do that . Hell, I could do that with Ray Robinson and show you how much better Mayweather is, or Mccory,or Starling, it means absolutely nothing. But what does mean something is who you beat And when did you beat them. Theirs no one on Joshua's (or Wilders for that matter) ledger that any serious boxing fan can look at and say "That s a good win outside of 40 yr old Kleischko. Kleischko who was nothing Special in his prime, much less at 40yrs old. So keep pulling your videos to somehow prove your point But in my opnion, Joshua is a big novice who is lucky too be fighting in this era .

 

Vitali would have knocked Joshua out and at 46 years old I would give Vitali the edge, but a young Vitali?! Joshua would have no chance. A young Vlad would have knocked him out and a 41 year old Vlad almost did, if only he had gone after Joshua while he had Joshua hurt, had Joshua hurt for several rounds, let him get back into the fight...........I think Lennox Lewis would have knocked Joshua out also. Tyson in his prime would have...............

 

Yeah but could you handle General full time Blackouts?

 

I think we have to put a perspective on this, what level of fighter were the likes of Wlad or Vitali Klitschko, Tyson, Lewis, Foreman etc fighting in their 19th bout, often fighters that had nearly as many losses as wins.

Now the above fighters facing Lewis in their 19th pro fight would have been a better measuring stick, rather than them after they became Champions themselves.

We will have to see how things develop with Joshua, but comparing him to ATGs may be rather too early.

 

Nothing more than rehashed nostalgic nut huggery as always.

Your strawman argumets are becoming repeatedly dull and void of any rational logic. I don't have consider any fighter of the STATUS great to think they have a chance at Joshua BC in real life they are dealing with a 6'6 athletic fast power puncher with a nightmare style that would have MORE than a good chance defeating anyone pre 90's.

Let's take Frazier just one guy you put a cape on for instance and PRETEND he's the same size as Takam and also limited to just coming forward. What do you think Joshua's power punches are going to do to him considering the power punches even if Frazier was taller and 40 pounds heavier?

Do you like Frazier's chances then? I don't BC he wasn't NEARLY as hard to hit cleanly on as Takam and Takam has taking some monster punches that would have Frazier's 205 pound body spinning....let alone from Joshua.

The problem is you view the guys who fought in black and white or vintage T.Vs tougher than the guys fighting on Hi Def T.V....and that's what imbeciles do instead of breaking down the actual fighters and ignore the double standard b.s associated with posters like you.....

 

we haven"t seen enough of Joshua
he arrived with the wlad win, we'll know more in a few years

 

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