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

[takenotes]

AJ needs to go in to this fight full bulldozer mode, risky yes but this is the only way he is going to beat usyk, he should also remember how bad usyk looked against del boy, usyk is a very boring fighter to watch, most people will watch him fight in the hope he gets splattered and sent to ko heaven.

Usyk looked bad on purpose against Chisora.

[Hands of Stone]

One minute he was working to take step aside money but now he is pumped to beat Usyk. Stop it Fast Eddie. He actually might get stopped this time around 'cos all the prevailing circumstances suggest he was never confident of winning a rematch. As a matter of fact, if you observe closely, he was already mentally check out in the 12th round of the last fight. He does have the best resume of all the current crop so can't take that away from him but this very well may be the end of him. Confidence and mental strength is paramount is the boxing game and he seem to be lacking at this point in both area.

[Knuckle sandwich]

Usyk looked bad on purpose against Chisora.

Usyk is good, but not that good, Ali he is not!

[Monty Fisto]

One minute he was working to take step aside money but now he is pumped to beat Usyk. Stop it Fast Eddie. He actually might get stopped this time around 'cos all the prevailing circumstances suggest he was never confident of winning a rematch. As a matter of fact, if you observe closely, he was already mentally check out in the 12th round of the last fight. He does have the best resume of all the current crop so can't take that away from him but this very well may be the end of him. Confidence and mental strength is paramount is the boxing game and he seem to be lacking at this point in both area.

Was he really working to take step aside money though? The vibe I got all along was that Joshua was not keen on a step aside. They listened to some offers that sound extremely half-baked. It would have been ****** not to listen to what was on offer, but it did seem to me like Joshua was grudingly listening to offers at Eddie's recommendation. If Joshua was amenable to a step aside, why would Fury go off on one on social media about how terrible they were at business for torpedoing the step aside discussion?

The one bit I would agree on is that if Joshua loses, it may be the end of him. I think it could well usher in retirement, albeit there might be one or two fights more. But who knows, really.

[Monty Fisto]

Edward Hearn, you don’t know that, you said he was gonna win first fight

Obviously Hearn doesn't know the outcome of the fight yet to come, but let's have a reality check when it comes to what he said about the first fight.

These are his actual words from two days before the fight:

"[usyk is] Maybe the No 1 heavyweight in the world - this is the scary thing. You go back to great cruiserweights in the world that have gone up to heavyweight. You talk about Evander Holyfield. It took him a couple of fights for people to recognize him as a true threat to the division. Usyk has boxed Witherspoon and then Chisora. People are saying, 'Has he got it, has he not?' Maybe now he does! I hope he doesn't but he might do. It's a great battle of minds as well. One thing that's so scary about Usyk - is his mind and his ability to work out an opponent, and to out-think them."

Link to the source if you are in doubt.

[famicommander]

This will be a wider victory.

Now Usyk knows he can hurt him.

[pollywog]

AJ now knows he can't outbox or outwork Usyk over 12 rounds. Usyk knows he can outperform AJ.

AJ's reverse Ruiz gameplan is now to K Usyk TFO!!!

[Bob]

Rematch!? What rematch!?

Oh you mean the one that was pencilled in for Feb yet 5 months later still no date or venue xD
Cowards.
Should have done the honourable thing like the greats & take the L moved on & earned another shot so the division stays strong.
But ya know... Rematchroom.

[VislorTurlough]

Some folks hear underestimating Usyk beard and will. Don’t think he gets stopped by any HW

[ShoulderRoll]

Joshua needs to talk with Tim Witherspoon.

He can help improve him with his old school Philly boxing knowledge, I'm 100% sure of it.