Comments Thread For: Oleksandr Usyk Comes In At Career-High Weight For Showdown With Anthony Joshua

[Pigeons]

War Usyk!!!

[_Rexy_]

Fallacy? “a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.”

An overweight non KO fighter Ruiz mauls AJ. AJ has been wobbled on several occasions. Both sound arguments. So how again is this a fallacy?

Because he's a Joshua groupie and says it's a fallacy

[BangEM]

Fallacy? “a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.”

An overweight non KO fighter Ruiz mauls AJ. AJ has been wobbled on several occasions. Both sound arguments. So how again is this a fallacy?

Some of you are just so dumb, you don’t know what a glass chin is. Glass shatters but AJ has never been KO’ed in his career. KO and TKO (stopped) are two different things. Glass chin is Amir Khan and others that go night night after one punch.

And if he were at least 70% for the first Ruiz fight - Ruiz wouldn’t stood a chance in hell. I’ll just leave that there.

[Boxingfanatic75]

Some of you are just so dumb, you don’t know what a glass chin is. Glass shatters but AJ has never been KO’ed in his career. KO and TKO (stopped) are two different things. Glass chin is Amir Khan and others that go night night after one punch.

And if he were at least 70% for the first Ruiz fight - Ruiz wouldn’t stood a chance in hell. I’ll just leave that there.

Dumb…ok…how about this? He doesn’t have a chin…is that better? A non KO fighter Ruiz made him quit from being repeatedly wobbled.

is that better?

[The Big Dunn]

Usyk should’ve come in at the same weight as Andy Ruiz. Got a tan, dyed his hair black and wearing a sombrero.

That would make AJ crap his pants before the fight started.

[Monty Fisto]

He’s not naturally big, so coming in heavy won’t help his punch resistance. This is just similar to Ruiz 2, and Pulev with guys thinking AJ has a glass chin and coming in heavier than normal for power.

AJ is also excellent against Southpaws and he has never lost against a Southpaw in the amateurs and pros. So it’s going to be an early night.

He's exellent against southpaws? His pro fights are almost exclusively against orthodox fighters. The only southpaw of note he has fought is Charles Martin, who didn't come to fight. He may well do fine against Usyk, but I don't think the evidence is there to say he is excellent against southpaws.

[Noelanthony]

I seriously need usyk to win, and I didn't even bet on him lol

Your brother did?

[BangEM]

Dumb…ok…how about this? He doesn’t have a chin…is that better? A non KO fighter Ruiz made him quit from being repeatedly wobbled.

is that better?

Yeah right, like he was even 50% for the Ruiz 1 fight. A guy with bruises all over his face who was looking dazed on fight night and fight week. Ruiz won a fluke and got schooled in a shut out in the rematch.

Usyk is getting sparked tomorrow. Uppercut and left hook combo - write this down!

[PRINCEKOOL]

Joshua has fairly good punch resistance, it is just that his coping mechanism seem to go slightly when hurt. But it takes a considerable amount of power to stop him in his tracks.

I am not sure how good Joshua is under sustained heavy bombardment ether 'He experienced such a situation vs Kiltschkko'.

But that was a different kind of Joshua.

I don't like this matey matey attitude from Joshua at the weigh in, it is getting a bit out of hand of late.

Nevertheless, Joshua should win 'But I suspect it will not be as emphatic as people expect'.

[BangEM]

He's exellent against southpaws? His pro fights are almost exclusively against orthodox fighters. The only southpaw of note he has fought is Charles Martin, who didn't come to fight. He may well do fine against Usyk, but I don't think the evidence is there to say he is excellent against southpaws.

Who goes into the ring with everything on the line, without coming to fight? You lot need to stop the idiotic narrative that Charles Martin didn’t come to fight. He was doing well in the fight until the count right hit him. He felt the power. Then got dropped again. A guy who who didn’t come to fight won’t be protesting the way he did when the fight was stopped.

He was excellent in the amateurs against Southpaws as well. Cammarrelle was a Southpaw - an excellent one and one of the greatest ones. And AJ beat him the both times they fought in the amateurs. And Cammerrelle sparked David Price and Yoka. He also beat Yoka, Hrgovic, Kuzmin, Parker etc. by a wide margin in the amateurs.

Cammarrelle just never turned pro and he might actually be more technically gifted as a Southpaw than Usyk. And he punches hard.