Usyk's chin.

[diplo]

Usyk was actually ready to go several times. Joshua hurt him often but let him off the hook.

Come on now, Usyk was never ready to go. Legs never stiffened, eyes never rolled back. AJ's signature is a right uppercut and I don't know Usyk even let him throw one all night. Hard to judge how good someone's chin is who is disciplined enough not to stand and ****, and rolls so well with punches he does take.

[mlac]

yea, he ate at least 3 huge shots from AJ. Was never hurt, maybe stunned.

[champion4ever]

Thank Jesus apparently someone else saw what was actually happening in there tonight. I absolutely agree if Joshua let his hands go more he would’ve in the very least knocked Usyk down. He had him backing in most of the fight and did stun him at least 3 times in there and Usyk immediately grabbed him. How that was overlooked is anyone’s guess.

You are absolutely right! I believe that first Andy Ruiz fight must've really ruined AJ. Now he is more reluctant in letting his hands go for fear of either getting clipped because of his weak chin or punching himself out due to his poor stamina. Joshua had plenty of opportunities of putting his foot on the gas pedal in the fight as the naturally stronger and bigger puncher of the two but simply just refused to do so.

[TheBoxingfan101]

i only remember one right from aj which went past usyk left hand and stunned usky if im being fair, apart from that usyk looked the stronger imo as he was landing combinations after the 7-8 rounds prior to that it was the straight left hand imo

[Frankie Coffeecake]

He's got a good chin but he never got with anything close to 100% power in there.

[paulf]

He ate very little clean that he didnt roll off, and still his face was pretty smashed up. I'd expect Fury or Wilder to send him flying through the ropes, but time will tell.

[dan_cov]

No idea why his ability to take HW power was ever in question he took some murderous shots from Briedis and Gassiev who certainly hit as hard as most HWs and didn't flinch.
He fought huge punchers at SHW in WSB also and was never troubled apart from a lowblow vs Majidov.

[champion4ever]

Come on now, Usyk was never ready to go. Legs never stiffened, eyes never rolled back. AJ's signature is a right uppercut and I don't know Usyk even let him throw one all night. Hard to judge how good someone's chin is who is disciplined enough not to stand and ****, and rolls so well with punches he does take.

It was clear for all to see that some of Joshua's punches had a damaging effect on Usyk. However, what Usyk did that was so effective is that he would circle out of harm's way each time he felt AJ's power which was smart. I couldn't have been more proud for the kid. He deserved that victory. Not once did Joshua ever press Alexander in the entire fight.

[1lparm]

He ate very little clean that he didnt roll off, and still his face was pretty smashed up. I'd expect Fury or Wilder to send him flying through the ropes, but time will tell.

Absolutely. Let the hype train start rolling next we will be hearing how Usyk would walk through shots from a prime George Foreman and not blink

[diplo]

He ate very little clean that he didnt roll off, and still his face was pretty smashed up. I'd expect Fury or Wilder to send him flying through the ropes, but time will tell.

Cuts and marks have absolutely nothing to do with someone's chin. Are you serious?