Anthony Joshua v Oleksandr Usyk 2

**Denilson3.0** · 08-21-2022 08:20 PM

This fight was "Round 13" ......Ding-Ding-Ding

Robert Garcia (AJ's New Trainer) said something interesting about him. He said that AJ would complain in the gym if they don’t give him credit for things he’s doing well. Garcia quickly figured that you need to treat AJ with kid gloves to an extent. If he was brutally honest ? AJ would lose confidence in a heartbeat.

AJ has spent most of his entire pro career in that lottery funded sports institute in Sheffield.

I've been there.

It's beautiful inside. Very clean. Like hospital operating theater clean. Very corporate. People walking around in suits, sitting at tables drinking their latte's with the laptops out.

And that AJ’s problem

It's too nice

It’s not a real boxing gym. It doesn’t have that atmosphere of a real boxing gym were you learn things the hard way through hard trainers, learn veteran moves and rough tactics in the ring. It's made AJ softer and now he needs yes men around him, praising him in moments it’s not needed. He got so used to it that he excepted Robert Garcia to treat him like that too.

I think it's very telling that none of Joshua's corner was at the post fight presser. Just Eddie.

They knew Joshua would not take the risk. He can't compete with top fighters in the HEART category. He'd rather lose pretty than win ugly. It's like he wanted to end Usyk without catching any incoming.

He showed improvements but to be honest ? His shortcomings at this level are impossible to fix. His chin is pretty weak and his stamina isn't where it should be for an elite 12-round fighter. He seems to have zero idea how to tie a fighter up, wrestle fighters on the inside and rough them about. Any top HW with fast hands and feet is krytonite for AJ.

Usyk ? I'm STILL not 100% convinced on him as a HW. Hope we see the Fury fight.

Also the crowd was terrible. It was like watching during covid times when there was NO crowd. You could hear the trainers speaking that’s how quiet it was. They made Japanese boxing crowds look like hellraisers. This is what happens when you whore yourself out to Arab money. A crowd full of Saudi diplomats and millionaires. And no ring girls ? I guess they'd have probably got executed.

They pay to host these events just for bragging rights and status rather than really caring about the sport. It's like when they paid for the WWE to hold events there and they were asking for long dead/retired wrestlers to be on the shows.

And I guess we gotta talk about the AJ speech at the end ?

You know it's bad when you're in the Ring with Chisora and Usyk and you make them seem the sane ones. It's strange times when the boxers carry on like YouTubers and the YouTubers pretend to be boxers

But AJ had his Kanye...."Imma let you finish" moment.

My favourite part was Usyk trying to get his flag back from AJ and then AJ saying 'Be quiet I'm talking'

Like bro what you gonna do? Knock him out? Kidder - He aint like them drunk uni students.

P.S
Someone please keep your eyes on Eddie Hearn, he’s probably on suicide watch about now.

**NoSavingByTheBell** · 08-21-2022 09:58 PM

Nothing worse than seeing a big huge giant guy like Joshua who does not use his size and his power to his advantage. Where is the killer instinct? Only time we really ever saw it was when he knocked out the 41-year-old Klitschko. It's disappointing because after that fight it really looked like he was going to skyrocket to the top and blast everybody out. Fury had one of the most boring fights in history when he beat Klitschko, and then here is Joshua blowing Klitschko out and really smashing him. At that time I really felt Joshua had come into his own prime of his career and would go on to really blaze a trail of high quality knockouts and or victories. What the hell happened after that Klitschko fight I have no idea but mentally he just doesn't really look 100% dedicated. I give him credit for fighting a much better fight this time around, his body attack was brilliant, and he jolted some really bone jarring shots onto usyk that may have knocked out other fighters. He needed to put together five or six jarring shots like that in order to get a knockout. He is a tremendous athlete and a great physical beast, but maybe boxing is not his Sunday punch..