Comments Thread For: Wilder's Coach: Joshua Needs To Impose Himself, But Usyk May Just Have His Number

[Rip Chudd]

show the the receipts for these props his been given. No one in the industry takes Malik seriously as a trainer stop acting like you anything less than a wilder schill cause Scott is a worse Trainer than he was fighter and that’s not saying much

I couldn't care less about Wilder, he's fundamentally unsound as a heavyweight and has relied on one trick to get himself as far as he is. I just find it funny you criticizing Scott as if he isn't better than you in each aspect you say he's terrible in. If it were just criticism then cool, but it just seems like you're just a hater, or a troll

[First order]

Malik advice is only stating the obvious... joshua has proved in first encounter he neither has the will or ability to carry out such a task.
Oleksandr Usyk has the book on boxing he has elite level superior skill and will set joshua up like a turkey...

[jkrames]

usyk finishes him this time round.

[jockpunk]

Joshua’s problem is his chin. He is a good enough boxer to outbox most heavyweights, but he isn’t a better boxer than usyk. So his only other option to pressure him but that means opening up and taking shots from a guy who while he doesn’t have tons of power at heavyweight, has enough to hurt the glassjawed Joshua.

[Toffee]

Terrible that people suggest AJ should impose his size on Usyk when has he ever imposed his size on someone.

His main attribute is he has an extremely active left hand, he controls the space with his lead hand not only with a generic jab but using it to position his opponent, picking at their lead hand effectively controlling their output/forcing resets and using the long guard and many other uses.

This is so ingrained/habitual for Joshua Usyk was using it against him in their first fight for multiple rounds and it took until the third or forth for him to realise and adapt...

I personally can't see him imposing himself on Usyk especially given the fact Usyk has sparred probably innumerable rounds with Wlad one of the best at imposing his size on opponents, just doesn't seem like a logical thing to do, his best bet is to just sell out from the opening bell and hope for the best.

Agree with how you viewed the first fight. And that Joshua hasn't really imposed his size on anyone before.

The answer might be to come in aggressive and hope for the best as you suggest.

But I think there's a middle ground. He was obsessed with maintaining range against Usyk and it cost him. Usyk's too good and simply moved himself in range and got shots off before moving out. I think Joshua needs to punish him every time they get close. That doesn't mean leaning and bullying. It just means throwing hands.

It's not perfect, but Joshua can back his power and his chin against Usyk's power and chin.

Conventional wisdom says Usyk has the better chin and Joshua has the better power. But Usyk landed some free shots on Joshua and couldn't do much more than hurt him. The 12th round is being very overplayed. Usyk has never been hit by someone like Joshua.

Joshua definitely needs to gamble. If he pulls it off he'll deserve every credit.