Wilder ran into a man who could come back from his power. Joshua doesn't strike me as that kind of man and Joshua wouldn't be able to stay away from the power. Wilder may be "damaged" after this trilogy (or not), but it's still hard to see how any other Heavyweight can take or recoup from his power the way Fury did.
Wilder ran into a man who could come back from his power. Joshua doesn't strike me as that kind of man and Joshua wouldn't be able to stay away from the power. Wilder may be "damaged" after this trilogy (or not), but it's still hard to see how any other Heavyweight can take or recoup from his power the way Fury did.
We've seen AJ get back up vs Wlad and Ruiz. We've seen AJ get rocked by the trademark concussive punches of Povetkin and Whyte.
We've seen Wilder wobbled by Spiltka, Molina, Washington, Ortiz etc...and we know AJ is a bigger puncher.
Furthermore you're talking about Fury 'coming back from his power', but ortiz also came back from Wilder's power. Wilder had to land illegal punches to win that fight, otherwise ortiz was getting back up 4-5 times if i remember. that too an ortiz who had failed the medical before the fight.
Going into this fight? Yes probably. It would have been a whoever lands heavy first wins and I probably would have favored Wilder? Now? Man that was a brutal beating, the second brutal beating in a row for Wilder. I have to imagine he will no longer be the guy he used to be. He was a heavy bag for 6 rounds getting beaten from pillar to post, I can't imagine Wilder having much more success against anyone really
yes, if wilder applied pressure like he did the first round to fury, that would trigger joshua's panic mode. i mean joshua mentally folded just from light hitting usyk using a bunch of movement on him
On the other hand Fury is supposed to be pillow fisted and AJ is supposed to hit much harder....
Its going to be interesting to see Fury move on and fight other top HWs, he rarely looks as destructive as he has done against Wilder.
Not sure, I think probably but fury doesn't have close to the punching power Joshua has, he couldn't throw a crisp right hand to save his life tonight.
Different styles who knows.