Comments Thread For: Joshua Says The Game Plan is To "Go For The Knockout" in Usyk Rematch

[Boxing Scene]

He's gonna get knocked out by a counter this time. No 15 second early bell in round 12. Remember he said he held back in the first fight because his trainers kept telling him not to go for the knockout.

[Willowthewisp]

Good plan. Usyk hasn't already fought a rough and tumble brawler who's made his career out of that style at heavyweight *cough*Chisora*cough* so in 1 camp you should be able to to master it and win...

[rckdees]

in the first fight the look on his face was priceless when he saw how fast usyk's hands were

[MastaBlasta]

Hmmnnn ... that's an interesting analogy by Joshua. It's HW Boxing, so anything in possible with a big punch. That said, the big guy that beat Joshua as an amateur, who fought Usyk a year or two later ... got TKO'd by coming out and going hard for the KO against Usyk. I thought that was the main reason that Joshua tried to "box" with Usyk ... he saw what happened when a big strong guy tried to go for the KO.

Mind you, that big strong guy beat Joshua in the battle of big strong guys.

Again, anything is possible with big HW's. AJ could catch him and KO him for sure ... but ... Usyk has been in this position many times, with bigger, stronger guys. It's the reason his boxing got to be so good. He had to learn how to beat these guys though they were bigger and more dangerous than himself. Seems like this kinda strategy would be exactly what Usyk would want.

Execution will be the key. Joshua may win, but I'll be surprised if that strategy doesn't get him TKO'd.