Why’s next for Dillian Whyte?

[Toffee]

Don’t expose yourself. Rivas also scored a flash knock down against him with a soft uppercut. So it’s obvious to anyone who knows boxing that he’s susceptible to that punch.

List the uppercut he has taken.

AJ took the same uppercut from POV, followed by a right hook and didn’t get knocked out cold like Whyte was.

Povetkin's uppercut on AJ was nothing like the one he hit Whyte with. Except the fact it was an uppercut.

You want to find examples of where Whyte or anyone else has taken a clean uppercut from close range?

I'll give you a clue. Uppercuts are damaging punches. If your career is built on eating them then that's not much of a career.

It's a similar debate as hooks to the ear or side of the head. NSB folks flagged that as a specific weakness of Joshua after the Ruiz fight. Yeah, it's just a weakness for AJ... and every other fighter in the world. We just saw Wilder broken by the punch against the heavyweight Malignaggi and never recover.

Boxers are susceptible to clean punches that they don't see coming. Shouldn't come as a great shock to anyone involved in boxing. An uppercut, a clean shot above the ear... they'll fk you up no matter who you are.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Whyte was almost took out even by Parker, who is not even a hard puncher.

Whyte is just not very good. Contender yes, high ranked yes, very good no.

[BangEM]

Povetkin's uppercut on AJ was nothing like the one he hit Whyte with. Except the fact it was an uppercut.

You want to find examples of where Whyte or anyone else has taken a clean uppercut from close range?

I'll give you a clue. Uppercuts are damaging punches. If your career is built on eating them then that's not much of a career.

It's a similar debate as hooks to the ear or side of the head. NSB folks flagged that as a specific weakness of Joshua after the Ruiz fight. Yeah, it's just a weakness for AJ... and every other fighter in the world. We just saw Wilder broken by the punch against the heavyweight Malignaggi and never recover.

Boxers are susceptible to clean punches that they don't see coming. Shouldn't come as a great shock to anyone involved in boxing. An uppercut, a clean shot above the ear... they'll fk you up no matter who you are.

It was the same punch...the only difference is how they reacted to it. He landed that uppercut cleanly on Josh and followed through with a right hook, hence Josh had to regather himself. Whyte took the same punch (without the right hook) and he was out cold on his feet.

So that should tell you how Whyte’s chin reacts to uppercut. Rivas also scored a flash knockdown against him with an uppercut. Pov caught a lot of boxers with that uppercut and they didn’t go down. And even the punch that sparked Pricey was a left hook, after an overhand right.

Josh wasn’t right for the Ruiz fight and that temple shot wouldn’t have scrambled his brain the way it did if he were right for the fight. Wilder is made out of glass and any half-decent puncher can hurt him. I said that going into the rematch with Fury that despite Fury’s pillow fists - he just needs to step into his punches a bit more and he’ll knock Wilder out (I picked Fury to win by KO, just as I said POV would KO Whyte).

It’s not rocket science - you just need to pay attention.