Comments Thread For: Haye: Joshua Needs To Make Usyk Rematch a Dogfight From The First Bell

[hugh grant]

Josh will surely win this on the basis so many giving him tips on how to beat Usyk.

[springfiels]

Usyk fights center line, right in your face, just like Lomachenko, and like Loma he uses his legs to produce the angles. You have to invest the 1st half of the fight to take away his legs. Teo had Loma running for the 1st half of the fight but he was headhunting. 2nd half of the fight Loma still had his legs and darn near turned it into a draw. Legs!

I've never seen this from Garcia's camp, never! Really hate AJ picked him. If AJ does it, it's going to be on his own.

I completely agree with you regarding Usyk and Loma, and what you have to do to break them down.

Interestingly I've heard Garcia saying he feels the blueprint to beating Usyk lies within Loma's losses... Which made me think he agrees to a degree.

Joshua had a lot of success rounds 6 & 7, and that was going front foot and to the body.

This isn't an impossible task AT ALL... I think it's all in Joshua's head where the fight will be decided.

[SteveM]

Look, I don’t think all of this advice from ex-pros will work on Usyk. It seems very ill-thought out.

However, if AJ comes out like this then we’ve at least got a spectacle, and if he chooses to continue w/his career, he’ll be in seriously entertaining firefights until retirement.

Just can’t see it, though. He’ll get done in fighting like this, then will apply a cautious approach post-Usyk, if he resumes boxing that is.

IFFFF he beats Usyk in a dogfight he'll be down to fight Fury. He's not out boxing Fury so he'd need to employ the same strategy in that fight too.

Joshua does have a chin. He showed it in the Wlad and Ruiz fights - he can get knocked down but he gets back up, similar to Fury if you think about it. In the Ruiz fight he wasn't KO'd, it was a ref stoppage. So he just has to go in with that mentality - that he might well get knocked down but he'll get up and finish off the opponent. I can't see any other way.

[Casualfanboy]

Would Usyk’s style been affective against Klitschko?

[P to the J]

IFFFF he beats Usyk in a dogfight he'll be down to fight Fury. He's not out boxing Fury so he'd need to employ the same strategy in that fight too.

Joshua does have a chin. He showed it in the Wlad and Ruiz fights - he can get knocked down but he gets back up, similar to Fury if you think about it. In the Ruiz fight he wasn't KO'd, it was a ref stoppage. So he just has to go in with that mentality - that he might well get knocked down but he'll get up and finish off the opponent. I can't see any other way.

Neither can I, but this way won’t work either.

Incidentally, I don’t buy this chin nonsense. What we’re calling lack of chin is just lack of the basic boxing techniques for absorbing heavy shots. His lack of solid footwork and head movement makes AJ more prone to getting hit flush, and he could fare much worse considering this fact.

[MrShakeAndBake]

I like & agree with everything you say but look on YouTube, Usyk has been hurt & gone down from body shots.

Wtf .... LOL Where the heck you seen that, CALLING YOUR BS OUT OR Drop a link....

[nick_viking]

Would Usyk’s style been affective against Klitschko?

I think Wlad would’ve neutralised Usyk fairly well, as will Fury. Difference with AJ being Wlad was really adept at fighting tall, using his height, reach, and weight. AJ doesn’t seem to have that same ability - he’s struggled with the smaller guys, Takam, Povetkin for several rounds, Ruiz, then Usyk. AJ always seems better fighting taller more orthodox fighters.

[-Kev-]

AJ doesn’t have the stamina for that.

[NoConcoms]

"Everybody has a plan until they get hit." This is especially true with Joshua. He literally freezes up. He's loses a dogfight. He should fight tall and keep Usyk at the end of his jab. Too bad Emanuel Steward isn't around to rehabilitate him.

This is exactly it. If he tries to impose his will, get off first, and fight like the bigger man, the second he gets hit by that straight left or overhand left he will start to hesitate, and start second guessing himself. This is EXACTLY what happened in the first fight. Which is why he actually tried boxing with Usyk, which didn't work out so well.

AJ is just too stationary for a fighter like Usyk. He will get hit very easily, and not be able to return fire quick enough.

[Dakuwaqa]

He shouldn’t fight like this. He’s 100% gas or get clipped

He can’t be reckless and needs to be calculated with his aggression.