I have to work tomorrow night but I look forward to watching it in the early hours of Sunday morning. It has the potential to be a very entertaining fight. Chisora has already shown that Usyk is not the monster he was now that he is fighting at heavyweight. You can get to him and make him very uncomfortable with educated and sustained pressure and Joshua has genuinely added stuff to his game fight by fight that makes him a nightmare for almost anyone that faces him. He may not be the greatest all rounder or the most devastating finisher we have seen in the heavies, but he can only deal with who his in front of him and he has done that even with Ruiz and the adjustments made for the rematch. In any era he would be more than competitive and he has a while to go if he can keep on progressing.
He is on a bit of a hiding to nothing because if he handily beats Usyk he will be made out to be too big all along and he he loses he will be dismissed as a hype job simply for losing to a very good opponent. Fenster is right, if Joshua sparks out Usyk or stops him on his feet, he deserves a lot of credit.
If he does that and Fury stops Wilder or beats him on points the possibility of AJ /Fury, especially in the UK, is fascinating given their respective journeys and contrasting styles and personalities. Lot of ifs there though.
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