Comments Thread For: WBA Confirm: Povetkin is Now The Mandatory To Joshua

[N/A]

Wilder is likely the only clean fighter in the heavyweight division.

If you said that only one of the top 5-10 heavyweights in the world was totally clean, Wilder would be our guess. Doesn't mean he is. Very few elite athletes are. But how thin he is, and entering many fights at such a weight disadvantage, it's certainly far more likely that he's clean than King Kong, AJ, Povetkin, etc.

[Robbie Barrett]

Going to be a good year for Joshua even if Beyonce Windmiller keeps pricing himself out. Parker/Povetkin basically guaranteed. Then Beyonce/Haye/Fury potentially.

[rickJen]

Good to see AJ being given lots of options.
Anything that keeps Beyontay away from an undeserved superfight.

[Pigeons]

If you said that only one of the top 5-10 heavyweights in the world was totally clean, Wilder would be our guess. Doesn't mean he is. Very few elite athletes are. But how thin he is, and entering many fights at such a weight disadvantage, it's certainly far more likely that he's clean than King Kong, AJ, Povetkin, etc.

Here's 5 HWs listed in either TBRB or The Ring's top 10 ratings:
Povetkin
Whyte
Miller
Fury
Ortiz

[No punch power]

Povetkin has trouble hurting bigger opposition and needs to grind them down . He was outweighed tonight by about 30 pnds or more , went 12 and started breathing Heavy after 6 rounds against the bigger Hammer.

Joshua can actually punch so the weight difference here is going to be significant against an actual skilled boxer who dwarfs him .


I think its clear the troubles Povetkin has in store here but will put up a better fight than Parker would still .

You're correct! Alexander Povetkin is too small in size to be anything more than a minor nuisance to Anthony Joshua as any blown up, 6 foot 1 overweight light heavyweight is going to be. And he therefore doesn't deserve to belong in the same ring as a MONSTER and a GIANT like Anthony Joshua.

Thus, I expect Anthony Joshua to KO Povetkin in the first round unconscious and anything short of Joshua knocking Alexander Povetkin out unconscious for multiple minutes isn't going to be very impressive.

In fact, if Anthony Joshua even as much as loses a round, or even a single second of the bout, or even gets slightly damaged and fails to KO Alexander Povetkin unconscious for multiple minutes (not relying on referee stoppages), then he deserves 0 credit and deserves nothing but criticism.

[No punch power]

Joshua would win, will be good while it lasted tho

You're correct! Alexander Povetkin is too small in size to be anything more than a minor nuisance to Anthony Joshua as any blown up, 6 foot 1 overweight light heavyweight is going to be. And he therefore doesn't deserve to belong in the same ring as a MONSTER and a GIANT like Anthony Joshua.

Thus, I expect Anthony Joshua to KO Povetkin in the first round unconscious and anything short of Joshua knocking Alexander Povetkin out unconscious for multiple minutes isn't going to be very impressive.

In fact, if Anthony Joshua even as much as loses a round, or even a single second of the bout, or even gets slightly damaged and fails to KO Alexander Povetkin unconscious for multiple minutes (not relying on referee stoppages), then he deserves 0 credit and deserves nothing but criticism.