Well... he (Joyce) had beaten a fairly good list of opponents up to that point. So to suddenly dismiss him as a total bum seems a bit "hindsight-ish."

(Not to mention "Monday morning quarterback-ish."

How about "Joe Joyce's style is tailor-made for Zhang... and Zhang would spark him 100 times out of 100 any day of the week and twice on Sundays"?

Would that work?