Comments Thread For: Hammer and nail: Jake Paul stopped by Anthony Joshua

[Damn Wicked]

I'm assuming he had a legit training camp that included serious sparring.
Judging from those results, he should have known if he could sustain a "make him tired then pounce" game plan.
Simply running won't do it.

From what I've read, AJ was playing with him from the jump.

Again
Props for JP for going through with this on the up & up
Let's see if his next opponents are legit boxers.

"From what I've read"...Watch the fight and don't go by "what you read". Joshua was trying to knock Jake Paul out from the first second of the first round.

[TheProudLunatic]

"From what I've read"...Watch the fight and don't go by "what you read". Joshua was trying to knock Jake Paul out from the first second of the first round.

I've yet to see a JP "fight" live.
Up to now, I haven't been surprised.

True or false
AJ only landed 7 punches in the first 2 rds ?

[Toffee]

I've yet to see a JP "fight" live.
Up to now, I haven't been surprised.

True or false
AJ only landed 7 punches in the first 2 rds ?

If you haven't seen it, why are you so keen to offer a view?

It's the very definition of an uninformed opinion.

[TheProudLunatic]

If you haven't seen it, why are you so keen to offer a view?

It's the very definition of an uninformed opinion.

How far off is my opinion of the fight

[Toffee]

How far off is my opinion of the fight

Watch it, then you won't need to ask.

[M312]

He was preparing to fight Tank at a catch weight of 190 lbs, so it's obvious he could make that weight. When the Tank fight was canceled and they switched to A.J. , Paul said he had to start eating a lot more to get his size and strength up so that he could be a heavyweight.

Yes, but the rumour is he was not going to make weight, so cancelling it was partly due to that

[Cypocryphy]

I'm assuming he had a legit training camp that included serious sparring.
Judging from those results, he should have known if he could sustain a "make him tired then pounce" game plan.
Simply running won't do it.

From what I've read, AJ was playing with him from the jump.

Again
Props for JP for going through with this on the up & up
Let's see if his next opponents are legit boxers.

To some extent. But a real fight is different than sparring. You could see him already tense before he even went out there. He said he was listening to meditation music to relax before the fight.

Then all those doubts start creeping in, and you go out there, and it's just as bad as you imagine it. The stress will make you gas much faster. Then on top of that, Joshua would put his weight on him. That's why his legs were gone so early. He couldn't hold the weight, and he'd just collapse. That's 80 percent of the reason why he had no legs in the end.

So it was different than the sparring.

[TheProudLunatic]

Watch it, then you won't need to ask.

IOW, spot on !

[elfag]

As expected by a lot of critics of this circus fight.

AJ goes in went easy on him throws some jabs. Paul running and clinching doing wrestling. Tried to fake an injury/low blow. AJ lands a half decent shot and the fight got stopped with Jake celebrating.

Netflix wrote the expected script with a happy end for everybody instead of a tragedy.

Yeah Jake pulled Joshua down with him the grabbed his balls like he was hit low when he didn't even get hit at all in that exchange and then the red ordered time out and gave him 30 seconds to recover from the fall he initiated

[TheProudLunatic]

To some extent. But a real fight is different than sparring. You could see him already tense before he even went out there. He said he was listening to meditation music to relax before the fight.

Then all those doubts start creeping in, and you go out there, and it's just as bad as you imagine it. The stress will make you gas much faster. Then on top of that, Joshua would put his weight on him. That's my his legs were gone so early. He couldn't hold the weight, and he'd just collapse. That's 80 percent of the reason why he had no legs in the end.

So it was different than the sparring.

No doubt
Sparring should be a barometer of what a game plan can be.
If you can't pull it off in sparring, time for a new game plan.

I give him credit for trying but I still can't consider him to be a legit boxer.