Comments Thread For: David Haye: 'New Anthony Joshua would batter old Joshua in a round'

[Smash]

'in one round'

ok david whatever u say

[Boxviewer]

The narrative that AJ has a poor chin can't further from the truth. Only once in his entire that he has got knocked down by a punch on his chin, by Wlad, and he stood and went ahead to win that fight by the way of knocked out. Usyk Tyson Fury, especially TF has been knocked down by shot on the chin much more often than AJ.

I guess some folks are confused about a punch on the temple and a punch on the chin. The Ruiz knock out was a result of a hard punch on the temple which concussed him. Even some HOF boxers were knocked out by a punch on the temple during their careers.

AJ has far better chin than Fury who goes down each time his chin is touched, but he has a much better recuperation than AJ.

[Smash]

im always amazed at how people fans whatever get so carried away by stuff, if AJ has improved somewhat (maybe or maybe not) then great but hes had a lot better performances in the past against decent boxers and good ones, his fans are jumping on 2 performances v the mma and wallin and comparing the notorious fickle furys performances and then having instant org'asm's, weird stuff

[Mikerko]

Why do they always refer to hate as ex heavyweight champ it’s the same belt Trevor Bryan held? No one ever speaks the same breath of him though

[MrShakeAndBake]

I am confused witth the whole NEW JOSHUA vs OLD JOSHUA. Seems pretty much the same AJ , just different opponents

[Smash]

nah old joshie would drown new joshie in deep waters late rounds in the fight

[Methane]

No version of Anthony Joshua will beat that guy from Ukraine. What's his name

[MichaelT123]

Ddd might be Josh toughest opponent, time will tell. Josh last 2 wins were convincing, heleniusand jermain not so much

Tougher than Usyk?

[JeBron Lamez]

Why do they always refer to hate as ex heavyweight champ it’s the same belt Trevor Bryan held? No one ever speaks the same breath of him though

We refer to David Haye (3rd greatest Cruiser ever) as a former Heavyweight champ because David Haye (3rd best Cruiser ever) is a former WBA Heavyweight Champion of the World.

He won that title in 2009, the WBA didn't start all the 'super' & 'regular' champion nonsense until 2011. How highly the WBA title was valued in 2009 is irrelevant to this particular discussion.

[Hands of Stone]

New Joshua has fought Jermaine Franklin who came off stocking shelves, Otto Walin who is stuck in sand and no power and then a UFC fighter. I get they need to build his confidence but stop it with this old and new fighter stuff. Only way to tell is to put him in with real fighters who can test his chin/make him answer some questions in that ring to see if he has improved. He is good enough to beat Dubois who is flawed but to gauge things, he 'll need to fight the likes of Zhang, Bakole, Fury and probably Usyk again to see if he is indeed a new fighter.