Comments Thread For: Hearn is Concerned: Povetkin is Dangerous Fight For Joshua

[tokon]

If it was a genuinely dangerous fight, Hearns wouldn't have let it go through. They know Pov is past his best.

Strange that Joshua and Hearns have not made a big deal about drug testing for this fight . . .

[lefthooklead]

It'd be such sweet karma for Povetkin to knock out AJ.

[diarraisagod]

Povetkin was shaken by David Price, for chrissake.

The only risk here is that Joshua and Povetkin's blood samples get stolen and distilled into a few doses to sell cheap on the drug market.

Price is dangerous early, it's his lack of chin and cardio that let him down badly

[Nomadic]

Listening to Hearns is like watching a Soap Opera. Over the top dramatic performances.

[sammybee]

Povetkin is old. Joshua whoops him inside 10 rounds.

[Jkp]

Hearn loves getting opponents out of the retirement village.

Hope everyone boycotts this fight, so they are forced to fight wilder

[cally93]

Povetkin was shaken by David Price, for chrissake.

The only risk here is that Joshua and Povetkin's blood samples get stolen and distilled into a few doses to sell cheap on the drug market.

So, your point is? David price is a tremendous puncher, countless heavyweights have vouched for his power, he also allegedly sparked AJ out in sparring few years back, unfortunately for Price he just can’t take a punch.

Povetkin is most definitely a dangerous fight for any top heavyweigh there’s no question about that.

[alexguiness]

I think Povetkin will be dangerous in the first 4 rounds, but may well fade after the mid point.

I like the fight though, Joshua looks pretty limited recently and I would like to how he deals with someone like Povetkin who has a lot of experience, is a very good boxer and can really **** as well.

[TinAgeOfBoxing]

Hearn was able to BS the WBA to get AJ a nice long roid cycle. Povetkin will fight another juiced super heavyweight who has legs for arms. AJ is not as good at cluster****ing and arm barring and wrestling as klit was so Povetkin has a chance to clear distance.

[Scopedog]

Are AJ riders so eager to pretend that this fight is going to be in any way challenging for Joshua or do they just know that little about boxing? The only way this fight is hard for Joshua is if he makes it hard on himself. All he needs is a half decent jab to make this an easy fight. Povetkin is old and flat footed. He can punch but doesn't have enough reach to hit a much taller and more mobile AJ. It took him a few rounds to breach Price's porous, stationary-target defence just by virtue of Price's height, what is he going to do against a target that can move and has a good jab? Maybe he'll really go for it and try and bum rush AJ to get him out of there, but Joshua can just tie him up the same way Klitschko did when he fought Povetkin and if he tries that strategy he'll be out of gas by round 4 or 5. This fight ends one of two ways, with Povetkin walking onto a right hand or uppercut as he tries to press and getting sparked out, or with him lurching to a one-sided decision loss after getting picked off by jabs and straight rights for most of the fight. Hearn knows this, if it was actually as dangerous as he says he would have took the bigger-money Wilder fight first rather than risk this fight derailing it.