Comments Thread For: Joshua Cites Lack of Communication in Usyk Loss, Nobody Told Him He Was Losing

[Pac=Duran]

Anthony Joshua doesn't believe you can read too much into a face-off, but as well as a new haircut, there was one notable difference as he stood face to face with Oleksandr Usyk since their meeting last September.
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Is Wilder managing AJ now?

[Boxviewer]

Pleased to hear him saying this? If he had to be told he was losing that fight then he has bigger problems than a trainer can coach.

What a ****** statement. Even the best boxers sometimes need to told when the match is slipping away from them so that they can fight with more urgency and adjust their game. There's nothing wrong about that. Boxers can lose focus during the fight, actually this happens to most top athletes, and that when good trainers come in and advise their boxer properly.

[OnlyBeingHonest]

Boxing fans are extreme. Before the fight, 95% had AJ winning fairly easy. Now he needs luck to have a chance, and that’s the opinion of at least 98%.

I'm not an AJ fan (learning AJ isn’t too bad, it’s his fan boys and Hearn I had an issue with), but it is reasonable to believe during all the commotion he thought he was winning. Not to mention, a superstar with his cache gets preferential judgement. I’m amazed how many people here are suggesting he should be keeping up with the score DURING a fight.

[Boxviewer]

What's that got to do with anything I said?

Usyk fans are strangely emotional, it's like they are DESPERATE

For what it's worth, Usyk probably will win, he is the better boxer, but it will be squeaky bum time for his fans on the night because one clean shot on the chin from AJ and this whole Usyk thing people have got going on comes to an end.

Exactly. And the tone will suddenly change and Usyk becomes a cruiserweight again, AJ has beaten a cruiserweight. Lol

[Boxingfanatic75]

What a ****** statement. Even the best boxers sometimes need to told when the match is slipping away from them so that they can fight with more urgency and adjust their game. There's nothing wrong about that. Boxers can lose focus during the fight, actually this happens to most top athletes, and that when good trainers come in and advise their boxer properly.

When your head is being bounced like a PEZ dispenser it’s not to hard to figure out who is winning. To each their own I guess. This wasn’t even a close fight

[archiemoore1]

Punches make ppl go crazy. There's no way he should have thought he was winning when he was missing and getting his ass whipped all night. I knocked a guy out once and later he told someone, "he doesn't even hit hard like they say he does". Until someone explained to him that he was knocked out cold for a long time. He still didn't believe it

[Jab jab boom]

And this is another reason why he will lose again. He’s an excuse maker and put the blame on others. Even if he was told he was losing it wouldn’t have changed anything because he had nothing in the gas tank towards the end of that fight. He was d****d over the ropes at the end looking like he was near death.

[PRINCEKOOL]

McCracken did not lose Joshua that fight 'Anthony Joshua lost the fight himself'.

He lost the fight due to his obsessions since Ruiz Junior I. The obsessions with trying to be all intricate and technically, the obsessions with being super light 'And repressing his natural way of training and lifestyle'.

Notice how since his loss to Uysk, he has been going on about himself in the past? I used to do this, I used to do that etc. Joshua knows that he did not fight his best fight, and has been repressing his inmate strengths.

A loss like this, against a unprecedented talent in Uysk was coming somewhere down the line.

I personally don't like these comments from Joshua. You do not bad mouth, a coach who has been there with you on your greatest nights.

Not like this, not to the media out in the public.

You just move on, and own your own performance. Joshua knew he was struggling in that fight, every fighter has a instinct.

Still Joshua is very game, and is up for this fight.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Pleased to hear him saying this? If he had to be told he was losing that fight then he has bigger problems than a trainer can coach.

Now just imagine if Teddy Atlas was working the corner, screaming at him. He would have made a mistake and got knocked out.

[steeve steel]

“I swear I thought I was winning. I thought I was looking like Muhammad Ali" .... Severely concussed?