Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Saw Robbery: For Me, Joe Joyce is Olympic Champ

[Lullaby]

Oh the irony ..

[kiDynamite92]

Does anyone know where I can find a replay of the fight?

[Adamjr91]

Joyce was certainly the busier fighter, but I felt the majority of his work was arm punches that were being blocked. Yoka, was fighting well on the back foot and was landing hard crisp counters throughout the fight.

2-1 Yoka.

If that was a 10 rounder, Yoka would have KO'd Joyce by the 7th.

[Tom Cruise]

Joyce was certainly the busier fighter, but I felt the majority of his work was arm punches that were being blocked. Yoka, was fighting well on the back foot and was landing hard crisp counters throughout the fight.

2-1 Yoka.

If that was a 10 rounder, Yoka would have KO'd Joyce by the 7th.

Yoka's stamina is terrible. He gasses after 3. Joyce was hurting Yoka to the body, whereas Yoka barely even made Joyce flinch.

Only one guy was gonna go on and get a ko if it had gone past 3

[Adamjr91]

Yoka's stamina is terrible. He gasses after 3. Joyce was hurting Yoka to the body, whereas Yoka barely even made Joyce flinch.

Only one guy was gonna go on and get a ko if it had gone past 3

Yoka finished every round the stronger of the two and was landing flush jabs in between Joyce' wide punches throughout.

I understand your point of view considering the British commentators were rooting heavily for Joyce and that may have had an influence on you as well as the lads i was watching the fight with.

The better work was clearly carried out by Yoka. You don't win fights based on 'effort' and 'work-rate'.

Does anyone know where I can find a replay of the fight?

BBC Iplayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...y-ft-joe-joyce

[Tom Cruise]

Yoka finished every round the stronger of the two and was landing flush jabs in between Joyce' wide punches throughout.

I understand your point of view considering the British commentators were rooting heavily for Joyce and that may have had an influence on you as well as the lads i was watching the fight with.

The better work was clearly carried out by Yoka. You don't win fights based on 'effort' and 'work-rate'.

How about landing the harder shots more often? Or are we ignoring the mountain of clean hard bodyshots that Joyce was landing in favour of a few jabs from Yoka? Joyce also landed a fair few headshots as well, clean jabs and right hands.

But no, a few jabs from Yoka was enough to win him the fight.

My statement about Yoka is based on his performances in APB and WSB where he looks like ****e over 5 rnds

[Adamjr91]

How about landing the harder shots more often? Or are we ignoring the mountain of clean hard bodyshots that Joyce was landing in favour of a few jabs from Yoka? Joyce also landed a fair few headshots as well, clean jabs and right hands.

But no, a few jabs from Yoka was enough to win him the fight.

My statement about Yoka is based on his performances in APB and WSB where he looks like ****e over 5 rnds

My statement was based on the three rounds I watched. Joyce, threw more punches no doubt, but the majority of them where blocked on Yoka's gloves and elbows. All the while Yoka was snapping Joyces head back with jabs and landed a few solid right hands **** on Joyce's chin.

I tend to side with the quality of ones work over the quantity of another.

[BillyBoxing]

My statement was based on the three rounds I watched. Joyce, threw more punches no doubt, but the majority of them where blocked on Yoka's gloves and elbows. All the while Yoka was snapping Joyces head back with jabs and landed a few solid right hands **** on Joyce's chin.

I tend to side with the quality of ones work over the quantity of another.

So does boxing rules...

Joyce has poor timing and got tagged the whole fight brawling Yoka arms.

Yoka covered pretty well, but Joyce offered no variety with his punches.

His body work wasn't solid or effective so never really scored points.

For the sake of boxing he lost, would have been a second gift for a HW brit in a row.

You know Adam you won't convince people who wanted this medal to be brit, they're deluded, but at the end of the day, this medal will remain in France along with also Yoka's world amateur gold medal.

Yoka is the best SHW amateur of this generation, hell, Hergovic is better than Joyce IMO.

[BillyBoxing]

Yoka lost to Hrgovic in the semis aswell. This isnt about brit bias

Joyce landed more punches, harder punches, out worked and dominated the pace of the fight. Yoka landed a few feather duster shots, but nowhere near enough imo. Joyce hurt Yoka several times especially to the body.

Yoka also benefited when Nistor was robbed vs the jordanian bloke giving Yoka a much easier route. He still looked pretty poor vs him.

He clearly beat Hergovic and Joyce.

Yoka is an effective, clean fighter, you just don't know how to judge a fight.

Plus, Yoka hurt his ankle in the Hergovic fight, that's why he looked sometimes hurt in the semi and the final.

[BillyBoxing]

Yet Yoka is a world champion amateur and an olympic gold medalist.

Yoka also won the olympic youth beating Parker in the final, next Josh opponent, the irony...

Joyce a painter, deal with it, swallow it, and go to the bed buddy.

Even some brits like Plunge tend to admit Yoka beat Joyce.