Anthony Joshua looks amazing right now, but this is a gigantic jump in class and let's not forget these two have sparred together before so they have a little knowledge of each other.
How is AJ's chin, how is his stamina, how does he handle adversity in the ring....he hasn't had to answer these things as a professional yet and that could bode very well for him or that could be very bad for him.
As far as Wlad is concerned he's been training assuming there is a fight that is going to happen, I just hope he hasn't burnt himself out doing that. He's older sure, but he hasn't just gone to shit and lost any and all skill. Wlad will more than likely have a better fight than he did vs Fury simply because it'll be difficult for him to have a worse fight than that one.
Can a 100% AJ beat a Wlad who is at 70% or 50%? We don't know. We can guess, but we don't know....this fight can be Old fighter schools youngster, it could be Youngster out hustles and out muscles old lion, or it could be they are evenly matched.
I think Wlad comes back with a late stoppage of AJ who fights valiantly but is just out skilled because Wlad will have a plan A, B, C, and he'll be very cagey about things. Wlad is used to the spotlight being on him, AJ
I think that spotlight can melt him, he'll be very tense early on, it'll sap his stamina, and Wlad will chop him down....if AJ blitzes Wlad early he had better land and follow up quickly or he's going to be in trouble. Right now I'm saying 70% chance Wlad wins 30% AJ stops him.
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