Comments Thread For: Hearn: Joshua Pumped For Rematch, Says He Will Beat Usyk Without a Trainer

[Haka]

Looking at Usyk face from last fight, AJ is always a live dog and can flatten him but still the favorite in this Fight for me is Usyk.

[davef]

Theres always a chance Joshua could catch him with a big shot and change the course of the fight but the smart money is on Usyk winning again and probably even a lot easier this time

[Zelda]

Well, that's his choice.

Joshua cannot hire someone to train him to outpoint Usyk. All he needs to do is use his physical characteristics and throw hard punches in combination to keep Usyk away. In clinches, use his weight and size to tire up Usyk. He needs more practice to remove his gun-shyness and improve muscle memory rather than taking in new fighting styles at this point in his career.

I was of the opinion that Joshua would KO Usyk and I still think he should. He just fought with the wrong style. He is not outsmarting Usyk so he better overpowers him.

[MANNY67]

Young Edward is going to say what young Edward says….he virtually built his charge as the matchroom head on the back of Joshua so he has to say what he is saying. In truth, I just don’t see how Josh wins this with his mentality and the fact that he chose to make muscle mass his primary approach to heavyweight boxing. If he comes in looking for the knockout and doesn’t get it he gasses early. If he tries to box the highly educated ring general Usyk then he gets outboxed. This is the first fight where Josh is truly the underdog…..

Agree, just like Holyfield v Tyson, Usyk has A J ‘s number,

[DaNeutral.]

Joshua seems like an over thinker and left to his own devices may create some overly intricate master plan to dismantle Usyk and actually try to do too much that doesn't actually work.

If much rather he found a trainer, keep it simple and work on a crude but hopefully effective game plan and go in to that fight as the bigger, heavier, stronger, harder hitting brute that he is instead of trying to out smart and out box a smarter and better Boxer.

[mjh1969]

Joshua needs to watch the Ali v Foreman, Fury v Wilder 2 & 3 and Holyfield v Tyson 1 fight to find good strategies. He needs to tie up Usyk, back him up and impose his size on him. Then walk him back a lot, throw rapid fire combinations when possible and be the bully in there. He cannot keep a distance from Usyk during the fight because he will get jabbed to death and picked apart with short punches. He may take a few coming in but if he employs these bully tactics he will come out ahead in the long run. This has to be an alley fight for Joshua.

[turnedup]

Looking at Usyk face from last fight, AJ is always a live dog and can flatten him but still the favorite in this Fight for me is Usyk.

Lmfao! Pasty white guy gets face marked up and suddenly it’s “looking at his face….” This stuff always cracks me up, it’s the equivalent of my wife walking into the room and recognizing one athletes name and trying to sound like she knows the first thing about the sport. Stop it bro. It was silly five and ten years ago, look at his face is corny today still.

[Stuart Chandler]

Lmfao! Pasty white guy gets face marked up and suddenly it’s “looking at his face….” This stuff always cracks me up, it’s the equivalent of my wife walking into the room and recognizing one athletes name and trying to sound like she knows the first thing about the sport. Stop it bro. It was silly five and ten years ago, look at his face is corny today still.

Usyk in his entire career hardly had any marks on him . Both Joshua and Whyte are going to win and this forum will be stunned they never seen fights turn out differently from the way they talk on here .

[RoadMan94]

I think if joshua took a couple fights with a new trainer and actually built his self belief and confidence up, he could be one dangerous guy.

This is the prime example Joshua means when he often states that he’s sick of people talking for him.

If it doesn’t come from his mouth, he hasn’t said it. Typical Hyperbole from a promoter. Nothing new here, been happening for decades.

[takenotes]

AJ should have taken the step aside $$, take a fight or two with a new trainer, then fight the winner of Fury/Usyk. Not sure why he is rushing in with a new trainer without going through a few trials first.