Comments Thread For: Salita on Usyk-Joshua: Skill Wise and Boxing Knowledge Wise - Two Different Athletes

[Timur78]

Funny how nobody was backing Usyk before the first fight.
Only me.
Now everybody makes him out to be the favourite.
Well, I don't think so. I think AJ remains very dangerous.

AJ realizes that the jiz is up if he loses twice to a cruiserweight and AJ might go for broke.
That makes him very dangerous for Usyk.

[Gideon lock]

Hahahaha Dmitry talking facts “This isn’t to take anything away from AJ, he's a great fighter and did some amazing things in his career, but when he beat Klitschko that was the peak of his career. And after that, he's been progressively slipping down just a little bit every fight"

[AmpMcv]

Let’s not get carried away and act as if Usyk had his own way throughout the fight. Joshua could have taken Usyk out in the 7th and he is capable of hurting Usyk. Early rounds belonged to Joshua and after the 7th Usyk domninated like he always does. While Usyk is the favourite, Joshua can knock him out.

No way Joshua won early rounds. I just rewatched it yesterday. Go watch it with the sound off. (The crowd and announcers were oohing and ahhing everytime AJ punched Usyk's arm or glove.)

Usyk rolls with punches so depending on the camera angle it may look like a good shot. He barely landed clean at all in the first 5 rounds.

[PRINCEKOOL]

The other day I watched through this fight again. Usyk won the fight from round 9-12, up until that point it was pretty much level. But you could clearly see that Usyk was the sharper fighter, and his skills were showing through.

I scored the fight 8-4 to Uysk. But even in the winning rounds, he was not winning them by miles.

What I did notice was, at times when Joshua would land punches or move forward with a slight intention of aggression. Usyk even though he has a good poker face, was vividly bothered 'I could pick up on this'.

Joshua when he was hit, as always of late just broadcast to the world that he was hit. I think that is just the way he is these days. I think both fighters where equally bothered by each others power. But I think Joshua has the ability to hit with more power, and aggression.

Joshua seemed to have more of a points scoring attitude, Olympic styled fight. Joshua needs to go in there not with this attitude in the rematch.

He needs to go in there, with the intention to inflict damage. Not to touch his opponent, and score points.

I will say this? All of this matey matey Attitude from Joshua, I honestly think it can at times carry over into fight night. I have no idea why he is matey matey with his opponents, but he needs to lay off it. Usyk is not his mate, this is a battle.

[oscar9992]

Usyk took Joshua into a boxing school... You can't deny that.

[Apollo7]

It's true that Usyk is and always was a more skilled and smarter boxer than Joshua. However joshua has size and power and that gives him a legitimate chance even if he is the underdog.