Comments Thread For: Haye: If Fury Attacks Like He Did With Wilder, Joshua Takes Him Out Early

[TMLT87]

Joshua is so "athletic" and "skillful" that an old Wlad made him look like a roided up robot by comparison until getting caught, and the overweight, short-armed Ruiz was able to outbox him pretty easily in the first fight till the stoppage. Joshua fans are drinking some really potent Kool-Aid because they're gifting him attributes that don't exist.

I think Fury should be the favourite here and i'm not rooting for anyone in particular, but Wlad was obviously a very skilled boxer and that was a fairly close fight with a pretty green at the time AJ outlanding him by a comparable margin to Furys lead in Fury/Wilder 1, then knocked him out. As for Ruiz, Joshua came in complacent the first time, and in the first two rounds of the first fight the punches landed were in AJs favour. The third round was when all hell broke loose with Joshua dropping him but then getting careless looking for the finish (vs a Mexican chin too) and as a result getting cracked and never properly recovering from it, while the rematch had Joshua winning like 10-11 rounds.

Fury is obviously the more skilled boxer, but dont you think its fair to say Joshua is the best overall boxer Fury will have faced in his career in terms of his combination of power, size, youth and skill?

[springfiels]

I find it amazing how much hate there is towards Joshua. He is flawed, as are most fighters / sportspeople, just as Fury definitely is!

Fury has been tagged by much less skillful, athletic and powerful fighters than Joshua - and that is a stone cold fact.

Fury's best win is Klitschko - which was one of the worst fights you will ever watch, he squeeked a decision against a gun-shy Wlad. Fair play, he befuddled him. But it was much much more making him miss, than making him pay!

Then his Wilder victories were impressive no doubt, but Wilder literally cannot box, and still came within a whisker of sparking Fury. Second fight he was mentally finished, again fair play to Fury but no way he can walk down and embarrass Joshua like that.

I think it is a fantastic fight, and much closer than most. I just had to get a little rant in about how fickle fight fans are, you really are only as good as your last fight to most...

[Clegg]

Fury has probably been tired in a fight before but off the top of my head I can't think of a time we saw him need to take a round off and get his second wind. Whereas AJ has done it a few times. Expecting Fury to box early, pick his moments, then up the intensity once he feels AJ tire a bit.

[Ray*]

What weight is Fury coming in at against Joshua? When is the last time Fury used his old Riddler style?

Who knows? Am sure him and his team would come up with the right weight and game plan. The most important thing is his boxing brain. You cannot just teach that in a 3 months training camp.