Savage AJ is BACK! Heavyweight division has been put on notice!

[15round]

Yea, he really came back and blitzed a grossly obese Ruiz in the rematch.

Usyk is the fighter that actually should come out better in the rematch. His body will have had more time to adjust to the added weight. The only question is if he can take the best Joshua can give him and keep going. My guess is he can. Ruiz did it. Fury did it against Wilder.

[cushtytaz]

Yea, he really came back and blitzed a grossly obese Ruiz in the rematch.

Usyk is the fighter that actually should come out better in the rematch. His body will have had more time to adjust to the added weight. The only question is if he can take the best Joshua can give him and keep going. My guess is he can. Ruiz did it. Fury did it against Wilder.

Usyk has a lot of skill don't get me wrong, but even though he dominated the fight I think he's being overrated based on beating a very bad Joshua and still getting heavily marked up in the process. There was even moments in the fight where the crowd were roaring Joshua on after a good shot, and at that point Joshua could and should have just jumped on him and tried for the KO. He didn't have the bottle to do that but he will need to in the rematch because he will now know that it's the only way he can win.

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Uysk in 8...

[elfag]

Savage AJ was dropped by 41 year old geriatric wladimir

[Toffee]

Usyk has a lot of skill don't get me wrong, but even though he dominated the fight I think he's being overrated based on beating a very bad Joshua and still getting heavily marked up in the process. There was even moments in the fight where the crowd were roaring Joshua on after a good shot, and at that point Joshua could and should have just jumped on him and tried for the KO. He didn't have the bottle to do that but he will need to in the rematch because he will now know that it's the only way he can win.

I think that performance is massively underrated!

Joshua wasn't bad. He was ready and he boxed well. Usyk was just exceptional - his movement was better than anything I've seen in this division in my lifetime. Usyk was gutsy too - I think he shocked Joshua by going straight into range and boxing from right in front of Joshua.

I didn't like Joshua's answer on his game plan, basically blaming his trainers. He should be honest that he wanted the fight at range and that he was part of that strategy. Not necessarily a bad plan, he just got beaten by the better man.

[dan_cov]

Lol these middle class toffs going on like they're 'hood' in a bizarre game of online Top Trumps.
Neither of you leave your mums basements for it to matter

London & Birmingham haha behave man. You're both from England why do you think everyone flocks over here? Cause its so easy.
Stop going on like its some warzone or ****** or something its embarrassing.

Always makes me laugh as a fellow Brit when people act like the Streets are so tough, try living in some real ****** in Brazil or Jamaica or somewhere you know what I mean? London where the closest thing to violence you're likely to see is some entitled airhead moaning about a traffic jam

[Weebler I]

I enjoyed the interview but I still don't like AJ's chances in a rematch.

This has probably all been said before but Joshua can beat Usyk if he stuns him and then jumps on him unloading everything he has, but that could finish Joshua too either with an Usyk counterpunch or emptying Joshua gas-tank as Joshua did v Klitschko when he tried to finish him.

Joshua has to roll the dice though, he who dares, wins (or dies trying).

[Weebler I]

Usyk has a lot of skill don't get me wrong, but even though he dominated the fight I think he's being overrated based on beating a very bad Joshua and still getting heavily marked up in the process. There was even moments in the fight where the crowd were roaring Joshua on after a good shot, and at that point Joshua could and should have just jumped on him and tried for the KO. He didn't have the bottle to do that but he will need to in the rematch because he will now know that it's the only way he can win.

Not sure he lacked the bottle, I think he was boxing to a game-plan. After Ruiz 2, I think he got into his head that "boxing" was the way forward, but Usyk's simply a far superior pure boxer, wrong strategy. I'm just not sure any strategy results in a Joshua win.

[Scopedog]

I mean, Usyk clearly won the fight but it wasn't exactly an easy win for him. Joshua arguably won the middle rounds after all. I don't think Joshua necessarily needs to fundamentally change his approach or his training setup, he just needs to find a way to squeeze out a bit more from his preparation and find an extra gear in the ring.

I mean, that may be impossible, I don't know - in that case he probably does need to find another way. Whether that's the case or not, only he knows best. That's why I'm interested in seeing the rematch.

[hugh grant]

It's all to play for in rematch, usyk has to do it again. Last fight is in past. Josh can do it. Josh is called overrated now, after losing but he would be called overrated if he was unbeaten also. Do you think there aren't people who say fury is overrated and he's unbeaten also?
people think usyk is overrated also, saying it's what Josh didn't do rather than what usyk did