Comments Thread For: Teddy Atlas Feels Anthony Joshua Has Been an 'Overrated Guy"

[hhh1200]

I guess you could say, he's taking the fights like a real heavyweight should.

[RoadMan94]

It was a "career best" because he almost won. He almost got a 27 year old the **** outta there despite being 40+ and off a near 2 year layoff.

Wilders performance against Fury was one of his most impressive too. But from a boxing standpoint it was ****ing awful. He didnt commit to the jab, fought basic as ****, was gassed by the 3rd round and spent most of the fight getting his face caved in. And I like Wilder. He's probably my favourite heavyweight.

The problem with a lot of Joshua fans is that you're man fans, not fans of a guy who boxes. Fury is a twat but his performance against Wlad was an absolute masterclass. Wlad has been KOed plenty but his jab and grab style was fast being seen as the depressing future of boxing. Hes never been systematically dismantled over 12 rounds. Fury showed exactly how you completely dismantle a longstanding champion is his backyard. His fainting in that fight was just gorgeous...but fainting isnt somethign ever understood by a casual or beginner. Ive been kickboxing for years and its atill not something I commit to in fights. For Fury to completely nullify a hall of famer with it is testament to his ability.

Rodtang is my Scottish buddy, all they do up there is get drunk and head butt they’re missus and children. They don’t know much better pal.

he isn’t comprehending that it was Wlad best performance because he had a guy that was stationary in front of him all night.

joshua didn’t show 1/5th of the boxing acumen fury displayed that night. This whole “career best performance” is hard to even take seriously. I mean, he looked so awful against fury because he had so much more to deal with than Joshua.

Fury froze Wlad that night and it’s nigh on impossible for a fighter to be “finished and old” be out the ring for TWO YEARS, come back and bully Joshua and all of a sudden be a great fighter again putting in a career best performance.

Was it possibly Wlads most entertaining fight? Absaloutely!!! Was WK v AJ more fun to watch than WK v Fury, absolutely!!

was it wlads career best performance? HECK NO.

So fury is a great fighter that made another GREAT Fighter in Wlad look very average and easy to beat.

these AJ fans wanna have it both ways, I’m afraid that’s not possible.

Unfortunately RodTang is another one that, despite the MOUNTAINS of evidence and quotes you offer to back up claims and PROVE Him to be WRONG, he admits he’s wrong, but refuses to budge from his stance. He then moves goalposts at an alarming speed.

You can answer 50 of his questions, give facts and stats and evidence to back it up, and he will find a 51st question for you, and another, and another.

It’s exactly why he’s on ignore. It gets tiresome. There’s about 8 users I know by there names and I’ve blocked all of em. They’re like a CULT. Joshua in private has laughed at a section of his fans anyways. That’s why it’s so funny. He laughs at these guys himself.

and I hope one of em sees this and wants to know, “HoW dO yOu KnOw RoAdMaN”

these cats are something else. They look for me to guide them 24/7.

they try quoting me, when they see they can’t, they try name checking me in a post. It’s the saddest thing ever. Imagine doing all that to get a strangers attention on boxingscene.

now I’ve had to mention this OnlyFans Thot and have to rinse my mouth out with bleach. Thanks a lot, RodTang!

[Dip_Slide]

Compared to past fighters yes, he's way more popular, getting paid way more for less in-ring accomplishments, but in this day and age, I rate him top 3. He beat very good fighters like Whyte, older Klitschko, Povetkin, Takam, Parker and Ruiz in the rematch. That's a solid resume in this day and age and he gave Usyk a good competitive fight. Wilder only has legit wins over a 40 year old Ortiz. Great fights against Fury, but he lost all of them in my eyes and was brutally KOed. I would never call him overrated though. you can only compare fighters with other fighters from the same era. Only Fury and Usyk are better than Joshua currently.

[diarraisagod]

Who's anybody beat at heavyweight, it's hardly a murderer's row
His record stands up against anybody else's from this generation except Fury.

[_Rexy_]

Josh has a good resume and his career not over. He's got a better resume than usyk, but lost h2h.
So you can say usyk is overrated as he only has beat one good heavyweight

No, he really doesn’t.

[_Rexy_]

I kind of get it, but the guy won an Olympic gold medal and then knocked out Klitschko.....and reclaimed his belts against Ruiz....not too shabby

Tht gold medal was undeserved. He lost to Savon in the opener and Cammalarri or whatever in the finals.

[_Rexy_]

Wlad, Vitali and Bernard Boente, as well as the majority of the German media, who covered pretty much most his career, all said that his performance against Joshua was one of his career best. They said his performance against Fury was dreadful, which anyone can see, but Fury fans don't like to be told, and refuse to accept. Joshua got the better version of Wlad, and he beat him more convincingly also. He didn't peck his way to a razor thin win against a guy who wasn't interested. He took the risks and came through adversity and stopped a great fighter. Maybe Roadman 6 short SHOULD kill himself.

You ever think that 42 year old Wlad looked so good against AJ because AJ just isn’t as good a boxer as you guys think? I bet Wlad would make me look foolish if we fought today. That doesn’t mean I got the better version that Fury did.

[elfag]

A lot of guys beat or knocked out a prime klitschko. AJ was dropped and stopped a 41 year old version of wladimir. AJ's whole rating was based on that and then winning in a weak division. They hyped anyone AJ beat like Whyte and Parker as being so great but those guys are just run of the mill contenders. AJ just looks the part, throws on the fake charm like a DLH and he can pull in the money. he basically ranks nowhere historically as a heavyweight.

[elfag]

You ever think that 42 year old Wlad looked so good against AJ because AJ just isn’t as good a boxer as you guys think? I bet Wlad would make me look foolish if we fought today. That doesn’t mean I got the better version that Fury did.

Exactly. Fury completely schooled Wlad, he looked like Ali in there, ultra fluid and fast compared to Wlad. AJ is nearly as robotic as 42 year old Wlad that is why they looked so evenly matched.

[Clegg]

With respect, fans in the UK love a good loser.

I'm not sure how this applies to AJ, who became a big star due to winning gold at the olympics and then becoming undefeated unified world champ.