Comments Thread For: Froch: The Only Way Joshua Beats Fury is By Stoppage, He Can't Outbox Him

[PunchyPotorff]

There will definitely be some twists and turns, but I agree with Froch... Fury simply has too many tools in the tool chest for Joshua to beat him. It'll be either a 4-6 win via points, or a late stoppage. And it will be a great entertaining fight for the fans. Doubt seriously it's a boring chess match.

[REDEEMER]

There will definitely be some twists and turns, but I agree with Froch... Fury simply has too many tools in the tool chest for Joshua to beat him. It'll be either a 4-6 win via points, or a late stoppage. And it will be a great entertaining fight for the fans. Doubt seriously it's a boring chess match.

“But Joshua is an Olympic gold medallist with strong fundamentals and he's got combination punches with real aggression. If he produces the same finishing instinct that he's shown in past fights, then he can beat Fury”

Froch didn’t say AJ wasn’t going to win .

[Apollo7]

I think it's a bit of a myth that Joshua can only beat Fury by knockout. Joshua could win a decision by being the agressor, controlling the centre of the ring and landing the more effective shots. Knockdowns could play a part too. Either guy could win by T/KO or win a decision imo. Can't wait for this fight.

[Laligalaliga]

I would love to see how fury reacts when a double upper cult hits him flush. Whichever way, it will be a good fight.

[PainfromUkraine]

'Can' or 'cannot' are two things that don't exist in boxing, in terms of being definitively able to make such a statement. Wilder is a terrible technical boxer who got a draw against Fury (undeserved on merit, but I am referring to bad judging), so even if AJ was to be outboxed in reality, or deserve to lose a decision, that doesn't mean he won't actually get the nod or get a close/'robbery' decision because of more poor/corrupt judging.

I'd definitely be interested though to see how Joshua faces up to this challenge, because he has never really faced someone of Fury's dimensions and skillset in terms of being tall, rangy, elusive and unpredictable with feints and footwork, switching stances etc (even though AJ's resume is better as a whole), whereas Fury has fought big punchers of that size like Wlad and Wilder.

[SplitSecond]

I think it's a bit of a myth that Joshua can only beat Fury by knockout. Joshua could win a decision by being the agressor, controlling the centre of the ring and landing the more effective shots. Knockdowns could play a part too. Either guy could win by T/KO or win a decision imo. Can't wait for this fight.

Yea. Fury is not great at winning rounds clearly when boxing. He does a lot of feinting and faking to keep guys from punching but barely punches himself, a boxing match between these two can easily be nip and tuck.

[Tonyu]

Joshua wins in my book. Fury doesn't have huge power which he needs to stop Joshua. Styles make fights and Joshua is a good boxer. The way to beat Joshua is infighting like Ruiz first fight. Joshua wins in a boxing match and Tyson doesn't in fight. Joshua by decision or late stoppage.

[Silver Spear]

Not really Joshua's opponents are more skilled than Fury's. Wilder and Chisora are two of the lesser skilled HW's. Joshua has a far deeper resume against top 10 fighters. He's more proven.

You ignored 99% of what I said. The example I gave could be used to counter your argument. AJ fought an older more mentally broken down Wlad than the one you claim Fury fought. AJ was dropped and was losing that fight at times. Fury was dominant from the beginning and was never losing. Going off of that common opponent I would say Fury looked better than AJ.

[Robbie Barrett]

You ignored 99% of what I said. The example I gave could be used to counter your argument. AJ fought an older more mentally broken down Wlad than the one you claim Fury fought. AJ was dropped and was losing that fight at times. Fury was dominant from the beginning and was never losing. Going off of that common opponent I would say Fury looked better than AJ.

If you watched both fights you'd know what you just said is complete BS. Wlad was more up for the Joshua fight, looked flat and uninterested against Fury. Wlad-Fury was the worst 12 round HW title fight in history. Both looked ****.

Dominant? There was hardly anything between them, both were landing nothing.

I don't think you watched the fights.

[Silver Spear]

If you watched both fights you'd know what you just said is complete BS. Wlad was more up for the Joshua fight, looked flat and uninterested against Fury. Wlad-Fury was the worst 12 round HW title fight in history. Both looked ****.

Dominant? There was hardly anything between them, both were landing nothing.

I don't think you watched the fights.

What I said is complete BS? So Wlad was not younger when he fought Fury? Wlad was not coming of a retirement and having fought about a year and a half ago before the AJ fight? Wlad was not still going through personal family problems? An older Wlad did not knock down and almost KO a younger bigger AJ? Wlad literally did nothing to Fury in their fight? You may not have liked how the fight unfolded, looking at the score cards and the fact that they were basically in Wlads backyard and Fury was fighting outside of his home...I would say that Fury dominated the fight.

P.S. You could attribute Wlad looking "flat" to Fury. If you beat your opponent mentally, there is very little you need to do physically at that point.