If you were to close your eyes and throw a punch...

[Madison Boxing]

Do you think Joyce can survive the early onslaught that Dubois will be bringing? He will get hit and say what you want about DDD he can punch

i dont see dubois causing him many problems at all to be honest

[deathofaclown]

hrgovic (who lost to him in amateurs) said hes much better than he looks when you are in the ring with him. dont be shocked when joe joyce beats dubois easily on the weekend

A lot of people have said the same thing.

I said on here yesterday that I think he will be a difficult guy to beat unless you are really top-notch and is probably much better when you’re in the ring with him.

He’s actually got deceptively quick feet. He’s not a dancer and his punches might look slow, but he is pretty good at getting around the ring with his feet and into distance. I think that surprises fighters once they get in.

[Dariusz]

Let's see first if Dubois is able to hit Joyce forcefully and precisely. I have some doubts and this fight may be very boring.

[SN!PER]

You know that game you played when you were a kid where you'd run up to a door, knock on the door as hard as you could and then jump and hide in the bushes to watch the neighbor come out and curse up a storm? That's how it'd be with Joe. You'd somersault over the ring ropes like Naseem Hamed, smash Joe's nose in, then roll under the bottom ring rope and escape before he even knew what hit him.

[rudy]

What chance would it have of landing on Joe Joyce’s chin?

Seriously the guy is unbelievably easy to hit.

We will all know on Saturday nobody can take flush punches and keep coming forward seriously amazed how far he has got. We may be wrong

[BangEM]

What chance would it have of landing on Joe Joyce’s chin?

Seriously the guy is unbelievably easy to hit.

But he has a solid chin and his workrate is crazy albeit he’s as slow as a snail. You need to watch his fight against Yoka at the Olympics where he was robbed and see why Dubois would have his hands full.

I think the Mayweather effect is the reason why people expect HW boxers to be great defensively. However, traditionally, the division wasn’t known for good defence save for Ali and Tyson’s peek-a-boo (which is overrated).

Joyce is a throwback HW from the era of yesteryear but a very slow one. Go watch Lennox vs Mercer and Tua vs Ibeabuchi and you will see a lot of Joe Joyce there.

[Toffee]

Looking forward to seeing this. On the face of things Joyce is slow, robotic but just keeps moving forward. Every time I watch him I just think there's no chance of him being able to step up.

But you never really know until you see a fighter in with decent opposition.

[Lucky86]

Kownacki is even easier. If Kownacki was able to reach top 10 at some point, Joyce has a chance.

I never understood the Kownacki hype the guy fights like Homer Simpson.
I am a white guy and even I can see this guy was hyped cause he was white and American.

[tritium_arma]

The Danny Garcia way.

[boliodogs]

Joyce has an iron jaw and he is going to need it to remain standing next fight. Joyce throws lots of hard punches himself and just seems to ignore hard punches from his opponents so far.