Anthony Joshua v Oleksandr Usyk 2

[Mark TKO]

Place called Dalyan. Been going there a few years now a couple times a year.

Interesting to see what the buy numbers will be like in UK. Am figuring the fight will be around midnight our time.

Only a die hard fan would fork that out you'd think.

[Mark TKO]

You often wonder why not charge a tenner and probably get 2 or 3 times more people buying it..... Surely that idea crosses someone's mind....

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Place called Dalyan. Been going there a few years now a couple times a year.

Interesting to see what the buy numbers will be like in UK. Am figuring the fight will be around midnight our time.

Only a die hard fan would fork that out you'd think.

KNow the area well, right between Fethiye and Marmaris.

Yes lower it to 10 pounds and just sell more tix, would be wiser and friendlier to society at large.

[Master]

Anthony Joshua has been warned he is making a big mistake by putting on too much weight ahead of his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk by boxing legend Andre Ward.

Joshua, 32, relinquished the WBA (Super), WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight world titles to the Ukrainian last September.

Usyk, the former undisputed cruiserweight world champion, used his superior fight IQ to outfox Joshua, whom many felt had lost too much weight.

The Brit will get the opportunity to exact revenge on Usyk in Saudi Arabia on August 20.

Joshua has put on more muscle in the build-up to his second meeting with ‘The Cat’, a decision many believe he’s made in order to inflict more damage in the bout.

Like many others, Ward is looking forward to the rematch but he revealed that he wants the former champion to lose a few more pounds to give him a better chance of keeping his stamina in the latter stages of the fight.

In a reported interview with Max on Boxing, as quoted by BoxingScene.com, he said: “Man I’ve been trying to tell Anthony Joshua for the past six or seven years – get the mass off.

“Then you’ll feel faster, you’ll want to throw more punches and you won’t hit that wall midway in the fight where that blood fills up in your muscles and you can’t get the shots off.

“This is tough, I feel like Anthony Joshua is always this moving target, you know psychologically where is he at? Stylistically where is he at? Is he putting on more muscle mass, taking muscle off?

“All these variables sort of answer that question and we don’t have that answer.”

Ahead of the Middle East clash Frank Warren has also perhaps unsurprisingly chipped in with his two cents.

And despite wishing AJ well in the rematch, promoter Warren doesn’t think his bulking will bode well for him against Usyk.

He told Seconds Out: “I’ve seen all these photographs of how big Anthony Joshua has got, [he’s] got a new trainer, good luck to him.

“I hope he wins it… but I just feel that Usyk’s got his number and the big worry is that you can train, you can train and do all these sorts of things.

“You can build your body up but one thing you can’t do is you can’t put muscles on chins.”

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[NoSavingByTheBell]

Putting on too much weight will make it harder for him to catch his opponent, who moves like a cobra.

This is getting stranger and stranger.

[TIC]

i think the knockdowns to andy ruiz still linger in aj's mind & when the going gets tough aj seems lost. i thought aj would be able to fight aggressively & defeat oleksandr in the first fight but he failed to do so. i don't have much faith in aj doing so in the rematch

[NoSavingByTheBell]

yes the KDs against Ruiz have spooked him and spooked him good.

[Master]

AJ is not the same fighter after his first loss. He has lost his confidence and that doubt led to his timid performance against Usyk. He can rectify that by being aggressive, being on the front foot and using his size. I do not think he has much of a future in the division as Fury will ruin him.

I can see if AJ wins him relinquish the titles to take on easier opponents and prolong his career.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

i think the knockdowns to andy ruiz still linger in aj's mind & when the going gets tough aj seems lost. i thought aj would be able to fight aggressively & defeat oleksandr in the first fight but he failed to do so. i don't have much faith in aj doing so in the rematch

Totally. AJ is totally spooked. Somebody mentioned that he might quit early, I think that's also a good possibility. But if he quits early that's the end of his career. There was some perception that he kind of quit in the first fight with Ruiz. When the ref wave did off he hardly complained and didn't look like he really wanted to be there. To be fair there was talk of him having a concussion from sparring.

[Master]

Deontay Wilder predicts Oleksandr Usyk will "easily" beat Anthony Joshua in their world heavyweight title rematch on Saturday night.

My totally honest opinion is that it's going to depend on the fighters," Wilder explained during an appearance on the PBC Podcast. "A lot of time has passed and there's been a lot of time given to strategise for the second time around. They say when you fight a person you know him a little bit better the second time, even a little bit more the third.

"It's all going to be up to those guys. My heart says Usyk easily, he's got the momentum now and how he was able to do it the last time around. But this is boxing at the end of the day and you just never know how it's going to to end up panned out until the end of it. I wish them all the best of luck and I hope they get out of the ring just like they came in; safe and sound."

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