Comments Thread For: Joshua Believes Lack of Street Mentality Was Klitschko's Downfall

[elfag]

lack of body punchiing

If they want a reason relating to wlad being a soviet, this is the best one, hes always been a head hunter and a lot of soviets fight like that.

[Fabes88]

Nah, Klitschko was close to stopping Joshua. If he pounced on him as soon as Joshua was hurt, it would be different. Instead he chose to wait and try to break him down to a TKO - wrong tactic...Klitschko even admits he took his time after flooring Joshua.

He did. Aj just slipped his shots and showed good survival instincts.

[juggernaut666]

You are either born with a mean streak or not ,no matter if you THINK ****** life makes you tougher ....the smarter fighter with the attributes combined will usually win . Joshuas ability to fend off Klitchko is what won it combined with inexperience that let Klitchko even make it past 5 rnds .

Selling weed as a teen or whateverwith thugs doesn't make you tough. lol

Joshua natural born aggression does . I feel someone of his size /talent and style will take him undefeated for a long time and it wont have anything to do with the streets ,it'll have to do what he does in the gym.

[hugh grant]

Or maybe ref stopped prematurely. Josh might have been on his way of punching himself out for 2nd time. He was missing a lot whilst wlad was intelligently defending himself.

[mlac]

yeah im sure if wlad was brought up in the tough watford street endz, he would of won ez.

what a ****ing moron

[Chrismart]

I don't think it's to do with 'being from the street'. The stage in Wlad's career obviously had an effect.

[Roronoazoro]

beating klitscko at the age of 41 is like dropping 30pts on jordan when he was on the wizards. klitscko probably older than eddie hearn lmao. if wlad wasnt street enough, i hear theres a guy in alabama whos more than street enough for that brack

[Sledgeweather17]

Klitschko tried with his left hook to knock Joshua out, but he just doesn't have the reflexes of his prime self to land it clean. I was even annoyed on how much Klitschko misses with the left hook when it was one of his most accurate punches back in his prime.

Missing the left hook had nothing to do with his age. Joshua was just too slick for him.

Obviously Joshua trained well for Klitschko. He kept drifting towards Klitschko's left side to discourage Klit from throwing the right, at the same time that tactic induced Klitschko into throwing that left hook, left hook which Joshua was waiting for, which is why he kept ducking and slipping it.

Age had nothing to do with it. Joshua's tactics were on point.

[ShoulderRoll]

Klitschko has never had that dog in him, that tough and hungry street fighter mentality.

[Tom Cruise]

Klitschko has never had that dog in him, that tough and hungry street fighter mentality.

Not sure about that.

Wlad has always fired back when hurt. He lacks the attributes to duke it out with someone (chin, stamina) and the skills on the inside or midrange.

I dont think he lacks for heart. He has always gotten up when hurt and always tried to fight back