PredatorHayds wrote: ↑09 Nov 2017, 08:58
I think Usyk could come up and beat them all.
Hope he moves up in 2018 once he wins WBSS.
AJ is a huge brand. A defeat won’t ruin that. I’d say if he came back to avenge a defeat his profile would reach bigger heights.
Don’t forget Matchroom gave loads of AJ content to BBC, so expect AJ to be a shoe in for SPOTY. That would have a huge impact on his profile.
He will be the biggest sport star in the country in 2018.
I think a defeat will allow him to grow into the fighter many of us want him to be. Certainly could happen. Although he’s had the warning sign a couple of times so it’s something that can be worked on.
Right now, we know he can fight, based upon the doemstic war with Whyte and the big world title fight with Klitschko. He can come back from being hurt to score a dramatic KO, which is very encouraging. Obviously, there is that strange interval, when he’s temporarily gassed. Before that second wind comes. Where he seems completely lost, almost sleepwalking. Most would’ve been defeated, but he found a way out. Yet - someone could “drown” him.
Not sure it’s going to be Usyk, an exceptional cruiserweight admittedly. Not sure his “piston pumping” style of punching - somewhere between Steve Robinson and Audley Harrison - is going to have much impact at heavyweight. Nor do I think he’ll be mobile enough with the extra heavyweight poundage (and he’s fairly flat footed as it is) to avoid the shots coming back. Someone, maybe a heavyweight dark horse, maybe the cruiserweight tournament winner, will give him the test he needs.
Intrigued how the 250-pound Joshua would match up to the 220-pound Wilder, both being around the same height. Definitely anything could happen although I think Joshua hits straighter and shorter and that his shots could get there first. Should be an exciting battle, what idiot American commentators would liken to “rock ‘em, sock ‘em robots.”
What do they see in AJ
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