He hasn't stopped anyone for three years. Memphis is right there is some bizarre stuff going on but most of it is over thinking. He doesn't have the natural ring IQ of someone like Lennox or a great like Steward helping him to add layers to his game without dulling the edge of his most dangerous weapons.

Those couple of left jabs that got him close enough to finish the fight could have been employed much earlier to get into range but getting clipped by Ruiz and then out smarted by Uysk has left him a bit gunshy.

That said Wilder's reckless abandon puts him in the danger zone much more often and earlier than Helenius and Fury thinking he is way better than he actually is could similarly put him in the path of a way more devestating uppercut than the one he punched himself with.

He will never do enough to shut some of the boo boys up but if he stops Wilder...
If... It puts Fury's wins into a little more perspective and throws some sand into the big dossers porridge to make that fight a potential classic.

Joshua has over achieved and to his credit rematching the fighters that beat him has proved that Wilder and Fury have always been the cones in the road, whilst AJ and Uysk are getting their heads down and doing the job in front of them.

He will need a bit of luck or early success to give him the belief to get him close enough to stop Wilder but he has the fundamentals and tools to stop him spectacularly. Still a dice roll fight, but well worth the gamble, if only to leave 'greedy belly' with nowhere to hide.