Why AJ has a poor gas tank

[DaNeutral.]

1. AJ is an exclusively fast-twitch athlete: he's a natural sprinter (young Femi broke his school’s year 9 record for the 100M) and is therefore not genetically built for endurance.

2. Being a natural sprinter in build and therefore relatively skinny, AJ (like David Haye to a lesser extent) is not a genuine super-heavyweight: his heart and lungs are small in proportion to the size of his pumped-up bodybuilder physique. His organs have to work overtime to pump enough blood and oxygen to his muscles, which leads to early fatigue and the pressure on his artificial body increases with age. His excessive musculature also rigidifies and slows him down more than the same weight would rigidify and slow down a natural big man with the frame, heart and lungs to carry it and he will especially struggle when he has to carry the weight of a much bigger man as well in the most important fight of his life.

3. AJ's style is highly explosive: it's based on throwing extended combinations of power punches to overwhelm his opponent and this leads to him gassing if he can't take his opponent out there and then. AJ doesn't just take a round off here and there; when he's tired he needs at least three or four rounds to get a second wind and that depends on his opponents being unable or unwilling to punish him while he’s exhausted.

4. AJ isn’t the best at handling pressure (partially due to his concerns over his poor stamina and suspect chin) especially post-Ruiz: excessive nervousness and fear rapidly exhaust your energy supply and cause you to gas out more quickly.

When you are gassed your punch power declines, punch frequency declines, speed of punch declines, speed of movement declines, amount of movement declines, reflexes decline, timing worsens, evasiveness declines, accuracy declines, co-ordination declines, agility declines, balance declines, punch resistance declines, strength declines, mental fortitude declines, aggression declines, fight IQ declines and it emboldens the opponent. Energy is everything in a physical sense, so gassing out hugely reduces your effectiveness as a fighter in every respect.

Very interesting, Im a big AJ fan but I'm not blind to his poor gas tank. He has clearly bulked up too much from his teenage and early 20's years. He isn't naturally built to be as muscled as he is and his body struggles to get enough and distribute the oxygen around his body.

But his weight has been coming down, he does always seem to want to try to learn and try to improve and seems to of realised he was carrying too much muscle mass.

He is never going to have the greatest gas tank and he's never going to push and maintain a crazy pace but hopefully he continues to try to improve it the best he can.

[Ultralight]

Joshua won't come in under 240 pounds, he was weakened and over-trained for Ruiz II.

Joshua will come in the low 240's against Tyson Fury.

I don't think people should be concerned with Joshua's preparation 'It is Tyson Fury's preparation people need to be concerned with'.

I will say one thing? Tyson Fury is the favorite for this fight, and I think he should win.

But if he attempts to bring back his old school riddler style, and comes in at 250 + pounds 'He will make this fight extremely difficult for himself'.

The Riddler style was a bi-product of Peter Fury's training, I honestly don't think Fury puts himself through that type of training anymore 'And it may back fire if he attempts to become the Riddler again'.

Fury implemented is Riddler style last against Deontay Wilder I, and was decked twice 'Once badly'.

People on these forums, seem to want to ignore the fact that 'Tyson Fury does not move anymore, and he has been hit in all of his fights frequently since his comeback'.

Fury fought the way he did against Wilder because he knew he could muscle and push Wilder around. I don't even think most of his punches even landed that cleanly against Wilder. His clubbing hooks just had enough strength and mass behind them they were moving 50 lb lighter Wilder around. Can't do that against Joshua.


I don't think Joshua is all that comfortable coming forward anymore either. Last time he did, Ruiz caught him.

[hugh grant]

He's gone 12 rounds no problem and he koed 2wlad late. So I wa snt aware he had stamina issues. I must be naive

[baroidi]

all bodybuilders have horrible cardio, all that muscle mass requires a lot of oxygen. Joshua looked like Reggie Miller in the amateurs, but hey, his muscles is what makes him popular on Cuck Island.

[Mr.365]

Joshua's endurace decent now, more of a boxer instead of a Olympic athlete