I only thought it started to look good when he was going to the body in the middle rounds...he threw some very good body shots and had to figure out how to land them which was also good... but then Usyk adjusted again. Anyway, as bad as the approach turned out to be, in the middle rounds, it looked like he almost found what he needed to do. I thought he fought at one of the fastest paces I've seen from him, Usyk forces that; there was some wasted movements for sure, not a lot of effective punching early on, he did tire out in the last 1/3rd but I thought the pace he mostly kept was a good thing...just more aggressive body punching at that fast pace from the get-go is what I'm thinking...put that in the bank early and see if the pace slows to where he can become the power puncher. If I were to see nothing but body shots early I'd be happy
So it looks like AJ is going to try and outbox Usyk again
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In fairness he won his first World title with nothing but slick counters, he's not AS BAD a boxer as people like to pretend, but he's like a 7/10 boxer 8 or 9 puncher.AJ is mentally fragile. He cannot outbox Usyk, and he will get picked off and pot-shotted if he tries that running ish he did against 500 lb Ruiz Jr in the rematch. He should take a leaf from Deontay Wilder's book, and throw the kitchen sink at Usyk. As many have said, AJ seems to have forgotten what got him to the top in the Pros, it certainly wasn't boxing smarts!Comment
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Eh, he wasn't doing half-bad landing straight rights coming forward aggressively, IIRC, and they were effective. So he could try to build on this and add some more power through clubbing hooks and such, not going for precision but more like battery. He's gonna need volume for that to work, though. I mean, you can do a boxer-puncher type of thing whilst still being the aggressor, obviously.
Still, in their fight Usyk would start getting more aggressive in return and upping his feint game (his right-hand feints are excellent) to land precise lefts, increasing their power as the fight progressed. AJ's boxing ain't all that bad, really, but it's a bit of a simple-yet-effective type of thing while Usyk's style is more layered and thus more difficult to counteract, I think. So a pure boxing match favors Usyk.Comment
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here brainwashed fool https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/04/us...ccine-rollout/He's gone a bit too hard on his philosophical stuff AJ. He does need to get the dog back in him. Plenty have said that and it's not so clear if he really does get it or will genuinely live and breathe a different approach, come fight night.
He needs months under a different trainer, getting bits here there and everywhere is showing in his performances, they are pedestrian and conflicted. He doesn't believe the approach. Tbh who can blame him when Rob McCracken was just saying keep doing what you doing, get behind the jab, when he was several rounds down.Comment
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