Why do people say Usyk is too small for Joshua and Fury but still favour guys like Ali and Holmes?

Well stated on all counts.

 

Usyk unified the HW division in just 15 fights, winning, unifying, and defending all his world titles in his opponents backyards, and then he moved up to the SHW and won three of the world titles in his opponent's backyard all within 18 fights.

 

Well, he has to get by AJ in the rematch first and that's no foregone conclusion, especially considering it's not Usyk vs AJ it's Usyk vs AJ + the entire world

Apparently, AJ only lost that fight because ''he got the tactics wrong'' which is bizarre because if that was the case all he would need to do to beat him is simply change them for the rematch. He wouldn't need to head over to the US to seek the advice on how to beat Usyk from their best trainers, throw his training team under the bus, openly admit he's going to cheat, and revamp everything and spend all this time watching and learning and soaking up as much knowledge as he can ie. go to all these drastic measures in order to help him make drastic improvements as a fighter if it was merely a case of that.

And his comments from just 48 hours completely contradict his excuses

'Anthony Joshua says he feels under pressure to deliver a spectacular finish when he returns to boxing in front of a big crowd for the first time in three years against Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday.

It was September 2018 that Joshua stopped Alexander Povetkin at Wembley in front of 80,000 fans, the last in a run of huge stadium events that had begun with his career-defining win over Wladimir Klitschko.

But since then, things have been on a smaller scale – fights with Andy Ruiz Jr in New York and Saudi Arabia and a 1,000-strong Covid-restricted crowd at Wembley Arena.

Joshua insists, however, that he is better now than ever before.

“I feel better now than I did going into the Klitschko fight,” Joshua said. “It’s not about nerves but I’m just more experienced and I know what I’m doing. I know what I'm going to do – I just know – a knockout.

“It’s Kronk style. I've been watching a lot of certain things – I like Emanuel Steward's mindset. Obviously, you have to do your ABCs but if you follow them you get to KO.

“That’s what I’m here to do – put on a spectacular show. People want to see knockouts. That’s what we’ve got to deliver for the fans.”

I'm pretty sure ''Kronk style'' is an aggressive style

But if Usyk does manage to beat AJ and his tag-team partner the whole world and move onto facing Fury he will use speed, skill, movement and intelligence to beat Fury

“Believe it or not, this is going to sound strange, Cunningham was the hardest fight I ever did have in my whole career, amateur or professional.

“The reason being he was very slippery, I couldn’t pin him down. He was light on his feet, weighing 208lbs, he was a cruiserweight champion and he stepped up into heavyweights.

“He was a slick, talented boxer and I tried to walk him down, use my size and power, but he was just outboxing me.

“What I’m good at – boxing, moving, slipping and sliding – I couldn’t do against Steve Cunningham because he was quicker than me.

“It was like he was a better boxer all round than me, and he’d knocked me over even though he was a light puncher.

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