Anthony Joshua vs Daniel Dubois

DuBois finisher last night was an awkward pushed punch that is now being put in the same category as some Joe Louis shit.

Yeah he's faced guys at the right time.

 

Now is the perfect time to make AJ vs Wilder. Now or never. Saudis should throw some money on that

 

Ya that punched looked like a push and he was flopping like a fish

 

Fury, Zhang, Hrgovicz, Wilder... Instead of Wallin, Helenius and the MMA bloke, for starters?

MTF

 

Joshua didn't see it. He was halfway through the loopiest, shoddiest uppercut and he didn't see that short right coming. That's exactly the type of shot which lays you out.

MTF

 

I'm claiming that one. Sometime after the Usyk fight, I think.

MTF

 

Remember guys, this is the same AJ would have stopped Joe Frazier inside of 2...

I said years ago, Bruno would have smoked AJ, let alone Frazier.

 

Joshua is clueless once he's been caught on the chin. He doesn't protect himself or look to tie up his opponent. He ends up all over the place. It is amazing too how much he leaves his chin exposed.

 

AJ's chin was never good, but when he fought Wald he was a young man at the peak of his physical powers.

Harder to recover from those shots when you're in your 30s.

Plus, even though I hate Wald, even I'll admit that a young Wald would have destroyed AJ.

 

Wilder?

 

He's often had a tendency to get buzzed while hunting for a KO [see Ruiz 1 or vs Whyte]

 

He's also not very good at clinching.

Usyk and Ruiz [first fight] had few issues rendering his clinches ineffective.

 

Good ol' Sly. He's a miss round these parts

MTF

 

His defence has always been shite. The biggest (in-ring) criticism I've always had of him is that he's learned absolutely nothing, defensively.

He's one of that past crop of very successful British ammys who had Rob McKracken and his mates training them to win ammy fights under the old rules. They made box-bots; quick-handed, upright stiffs who come in and out in straight lines, looking to 'score' with fast 1-2s before moving back out and doing it again.

It worked great... for amateurs. But it's useless against top level pros, because the better ones simply time you on the way back out. He's got absolutely no clue how to move backwards. He just shuffles out the way he came, which leaves him in the perfect position to be smashed. Add in his ridiculous tendency to keep his hands low, his chin high and his reckless disregard when he thinks he's 'winning' (which you alluded to earlier), and you've got what you get.

He's never worked to improve any of this. He got drilled last night in almost the exact same manner that the fat Mexican drilled him.

MTF

 

Looked to me like he was tying up dubious plenty

Then the ref would scold dubious for attempting to get free