Comments Thread For: Hearn Brushes Aside Usyk-Joshua Rematch Delays: 'AJ is Fighting Twice This Year'

[Monty Fisto]

AJ doesn't fight twice in any year

I think the only way someone could genuinely believe that would be if (a) they started following boxing in 2020 and (b) they didn't have access to the internet.

I'm willing to accept that (a) might be true in your case but we know that (b) isn't. So, we simply mark you down as dishonest rather than just ignorant.

[Earl-Hickey]

If he loses to Usyk again I think it may be over. He's in his 30s now and he would require a LONG period of rehabilitation with the right coach and selectively picking fights to slowly progress back up.

He's gone with an aggressive coach because he knows he just needs to go for broke and hope he's able to catch Usyk early and blast him out of there.

I give him like a 1/5 chance, he is athletic enough that he has at least some chance of it but I think he'd need a fair bit of luck for it to happen.

[Rockybigblower]

Joshua mustn't be pyssing clean yet?

I hadn't thought about that but you might be right. He may have lost a bit of shape in his time off thinking Usyk would be tied up with the war...then got the cycle wrong when Usyk quickly announced he'd be ready on fight night.

[Rockybigblower]

AJ doesn't fight twice in any year

Unless the second fight is an exhibition against Floyd if he loses to Usyk again.

[Toffee]

If he loses to Usyk again I think it may be over. He's in his 30s now and he would require a LONG period of rehabilitation with the right coach and selectively picking fights to slowly progress back up.

He's gone with an aggressive coach because he knows he just needs to go for broke and hope he's able to catch Usyk early and blast him out of there.

I give him like a 1/5 chance, he is athletic enough that he has at least some chance of it but I think he'd need a fair bit of luck for it to happen.

Plenty thought he'd win the first time around. He was favourite from memory.

Personally I just couldn't quite figure out how either of them would match up with each other. And I don't think the first fight really taught us anything. Joshua fought the worst style possible and Usyk had the answer throughout. That said, it was (despite attempts to rewrite history) a very good, high standard, fight.

I'm 100% certain that we see a better Joshua. But Usyk can adapt before and during fights - that's arguably his greatest asset.

We won't see Joshua fight in such a meek style again, but we don't know if Usyk will still have the answer to what Joshua brings.

50/50 for me.

[Ganondorf]

F off Hearn. I’m growing pretty tired of you personally.

[tokon]

I hadn't thought about that but you might be right. He may have lost a bit of shape in his time off thinking Usyk would be tied up with the war...then got the cycle wrong when Usyk quickly announced he'd be ready on fight night.

Yes, good possibility, esp when he's expected to be utilising sizr and strength advantages. Tbh there's been no details regarding additional random testing etc. Possible that neither fighter wants it?!

[Get em up]

Why, with Joshua's glass jaw and BUMSQUADs Raw power, it'll be over in 1 or 2 rounds.

I wont say its definitive it would though I do pick Wilder to win I just think it's a fight we shouldve got instead of AJ and Ruiz or Wilder and Easy Breezy

[Earl-Hickey]

I wont say its definitive it would though I do pick Wilder to win I just think it's a fight we shouldve got instead of AJ and Ruiz or Wilder and Easy Breezy

Wilders chin is just as bad, the first solid punches fury landed had Wilder on ***** Street where he remained for the entirety of fight 2 and 3,he has an impressive ability to survive deep into fights as a borderline useless zombie, however. I belive its due to his complete lack of a brain.

[Get em up]

Wilders chin is just as bad, the first solid punches fury landed had Wilder on ***** Street where he remained for the entirety of fight 2 and 3,he has an impressive ability to survive deep into fights as a borderline useless zombie, however. I belive its due to his complete lack of a brain.

That's why I was saying a Wilder win isnt definitive. Both guys have power and both guys seem dead tired later in the fight.