Why did Joshua never throw this right hand bomb against Usyk

This is why I laugh when I hear Wilder would beat Usyk

 

He threw plenty, its just that none of them landed

 

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AJ threw a lot of right hands, but rarely landed. Usyk's head is usually off the center line or out of range. And because of his constant movement, AJ couldn't set his feet to throw right hands consistently.

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Sniping and timing a David Haye-esque straight right against Francis Ngannou is one thing, doing that against Usyk is very much another.

 

aj ko him with the most basic of boxing moves. nothing ngannou hasnt seen before, even in mma. difference being that he is seeing it at boxing champ set up, speed and power.
first knock down came when aj feinted a jab to the body, which brought down ngannous lead hand to parry, leaving a wide open lane right down the line. the ko was a gimme. ngannou would have got hit by anything at that point, his nervous system was still offline.
for those that might not know what turning a punch over means, just look at the last punch aj threw.

 

I don't dispute anything you said. However, Usyk DID get hit a lot vs both AJ and Fury. His face looked like chopped meat after AJ II and he had two black eyes and various cuts vs Fury.

He can take those shots because he has a thick, Slavic skull capable of absorbing most anyone's punch with little to no injury.

 

A guy with Usyk's experience would never square up right in front of his opponent like Ngannou did, which made him a very easy target for Joshua's right. Joshua also learned from the first Ruiz fight what can happen when you try to force a knockout against another top fighter.

 

ffs. if sly really thought that, then he dksab. it amazes me how many people fancy themselves boxing experts and they cant even tell obvious flaws in fighters, let alone how that translates against certain fighters. nobody gets em all right, but to raise someone to goat, you better know wtf youre talking about. which means at least understanding the technical side of the frickin sport.

 

Usyk has a ring iq and head movement, has exceptional footwork that controls the range and distance, and has a kind of muscle memory that allows him to ride shots as the result of years of training in the sport of boxing.
Ngannou has literally none of those attributes, he fell for a very simple setup that no other boxer would have done.
I don’t think Joshua should get to much credit for this but it was a thing of beauty and it put those mma lunatics back in their box, and that is why it is one of my favourite knockouts of all time, it’s up there with Canelo khan, he absolutely folded him in half and the twisted back leg is the equivalent of putting an exclamation mark on the end of a knockout.