jim Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Bang! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I haven't been watching but glad Joshua won, but why he couldn't have done it a round earlier for my bet!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Superb fight, had it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) Decent bout. Joshua wobbled but got his shit together and looked pretty impressive. Odd looking chap though, physically at least. Needs to work on those skinny legs of his. Edited December 12, 2015 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Vicious finish in slow mo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw95 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 After AJ stopped **** about he was boxing properly, not just aiming for knockout. Good to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted December 12, 2015 Moderator Share Posted December 12, 2015 Steep learning curve, good work out and job well done. He will have learnt from that and will be a better fighter as a result. The hype will continue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 DILLIAN NOOOOOOOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I don't get the hate for Joshua 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 5 minutes ago, coda said: I don't get the hate for Joshua An entertainer in the ring and speaks well off it. The hate is most likely based on jealousy for his ridiculous phsyique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) He's a good fighter to watch and I hope he eventually meets and destroys Tyson Fury. Edited December 12, 2015 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) He will be judged now on who he fights next he's had a testing fight and come through it but i expect to see him against top level opponents next If he fights someone like Chisora it will just be a step backwards I hate Joshua because of his body its rediculous and i'm green with envy Edited December 12, 2015 by AshVilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 That might have been the best uppercut since Ken Masters did this: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Joshua could rule the division if he keeps on working hard and developing skills. Can't see the fury fight being next though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 Not overly impressed with Joshua to be perfectly honest. He has very good power but also has a very long way to go, someone like Fury would make him look like a mug. Joshua clearly gassed, I've always questioned his stamina and tonight it looked quite poor, he needs better conditioning, he's too muscular and top heavy, he either needs to find some way to improve his stamina, or revert to a much more economical style. kind of like what Wladimir Klitschko did. On top of that the guy is as stiff as a board, no head movement, was eating a jab from a much smaller guy most of the fight and his stiffness lead him to getting hurt once or twice. Massive work in progress and doesn't justify the hype at this stage, but that won't stop fat Eddie Hearn and Sky keeping the train rolling. He's good, but I haven't seen any potential 'greatness' in the guy by any stretch of the imagination. In many ways, Joshua was fortunate that Whyte gassed before he did. Whyte is simply too fat, needs much better S+C training, as from round 3 onward most of his power punches were pushed rather than actually 'thrown'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 1 hour ago, OutByEaster? said: Not sure what we've learned there - there's a couple of question marks left on Eubank - does he hit hard enough to knock people out and did he have the energy to keep that up? He's an excellent athlete but a shitty boxer, he has the wrong trainer, he needs someone to teach him technique and how to actually box, Booth is a good motivator but doesn't have the first clue about technique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 He's about 3/4 years off fighting fury in my head, haye might but he'd be daft to try and cash it in, fury will fight him for money on the way down, he wo t fight him for the Facebook crowd on his way up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 13, 2015 Moderator Share Posted December 13, 2015 20 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said: He's an excellent athlete but a shitty boxer, he has the wrong trainer, he needs someone to teach him technique and how to actually box, Booth is a good motivator but doesn't have the first clue about technique. I think Eubank's problem is that he thinks that he's cleverer than boxing, it's almost like he believes that he can be better than established technique. He'd rather do it his way than learn; which makes him an idiot and is a shame, because he has the tools to be very very good - or at least he probably does, he landed a careers worth of uppercuts tonight and didn't take his man out, you have to wonder if that's testament to O'Sullivan's chin or if Eubank doesn't hit hard enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Not overly impressed with Joshua to be perfectly honest. He has very good power but also has a very long way to go, someone like Fury would make him look like a mug. Joshua clearly gassed, I've always questioned his stamina and tonight it looked quite poor, he needs better conditioning, he's too muscular and top heavy, he either needs to find some way to improve his stamina, or revert to a much more economical style. kind of like what Wladimir Klitschko did. On top of that the guy is as stiff as a board, no head movement, was eating a jab from a much smaller guy most of the fight and his stiffness lead him to getting hurt once or twice. Massive work in progress and doesn't justify the hype at this stage, but that won't stop fat Eddie Hearn and Sky keeping the train rolling. He's good, but I haven't seen any potential 'greatness' in the guy by any stretch of the imagination. In many ways, Joshua was fortunate that Whyte gassed before he did. Whyte is simply too fat, needs much better S+C training, as from round 3 onward most of his power punches were pushed rather than actually 'thrown'. Completly agree with everthing said here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Nonsense mate, Porter is an outstanding win and Brook did a real job on him, have any welterweights had a win as good as that of late? The answer of course is no. That win alone cements him as one of the top welterweights around. Khan has not had a win as good as that in 5 years, in fact, he's arguably not ever had a win as good as that. Maidana is hardly as good a boxer as Porter, and at the time of his fight with Khan was not even as good as he was/is under Robert Garcia. Garcia got him working behind a jab and throwing feints, the Maidana against Khan was a crude plodder with two punches, an uppercut and an overhand right. Khan goes life and death with him. Giving Khan credit for getting sparked out by Garcia is hilarious. Brook is a top welterweight, end of story, and is rightly ranked above Khan by any sane list. Also, when Garcia fought Khan he was a nobody, he wasn't 'feared' for anything, he was an enormous underdog, go find the odds - Khan was a -700 whilst Garcia was a +500 LOL. He was extremely unheralded, he was absolutely NOT a feared puncher. He was considered nothing more than a solid, basic boxer who Khan was supposed to absolutely run through. Remember, Garcia was the stand in guy for Peterson, who had failed a drug test. It was supposed to be Khan - Peterson 2. Garcia prior to Khan, barely got past an old and fat Eric Morales, basically relying on an 11th round knockdown to get the win. If you can find the HBO full fight coverage (including the pre-fight program) you will see how they were not giving Garcia a cat in hells chance. Now if Garcia was a feared puncher and even particularly highly rated it would have gotten a much better treatment. The fight was supposed to be a formality for Khan, it's only after this fight that Garcia became a big name. Although of late he and his team have done a lot to undo all of the hard work he put in to smash Khan to pieces and beat Matthysse. I didnt say Khan was above Brook in any rankings. Viewership and moneywise Khan is ranked higher though. Id say Paquaio, Bradley and Thurman are ahead of Brook imo. Look i dont discredit Brooks win against Porter but all im saying is since then its been bum after bum and we both know thats Eddie Hearns way of doing things. We could debate all night as to who would win if Khan and Brook fought, lets hope it happens soon so it can be put to bed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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