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I'm actually shocked the cards were spot on. Refreshing.
 

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Fury would be a match-up nightmare for Usyk

Would be a terrible fight, but Fury wins it comfortably
 

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I would like to see Fury vs Usyk — that’s definitely interesting. Though he needs to put Wilder away first.
 

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The only person who beats Fury is himself and his mentality.
 

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All these floods mocking Joshua, it seems people don't know how good Usyk was at CW. The real question was whether he could take his game up to the heavy's and do the same things and he's just shown he can. Usyk has always been a better P4P boxer than Joshua, so to mock Joshua really doesn't make sense.
 

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AJ fully underestimated Usyk pedigree and credentials in this fight. Usyk is a brilliant boxer and technician, AJ didn't foresee that and that's obviously his loss.

Brilliant gameplay and execution by Usyk.
 

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AJ will get a rematch, but next time all this BS theatrical shit for Sky and fireworks....feck right off.

You can do that once you win, not when you're walking in, losing focus, and getting your high before you've done the job.

You live and you learn
When does all that crap happen after a fight....never. Talking shite
 

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Bit like Wilder/Fury 3, do we even need to see a rematch? I don't see any way AJ comes back and beats him. It's nothing like the Ruiz loss at all. Totally out classed.
Course we do. Find it really weird no one would want to see a rematch.
 

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It poses a question, what can AJ do in the rematch? He came in quite lean for this fight, going for the speed hoping to catch Usyk on the exit, it didn't pan out. If he goes back to being massive, Usyk will dance around him.
 

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Bit like Wilder/Fury 3, do we even need to see a rematch? I don't see any way AJ comes back and beats him. It's nothing like the Ruiz loss at all. Totally out classed.
We don't. Like in Wilder-Fury 3 the only way Wilder/Joshua win is by sheer luck of throwing a one in a thousand punch. But there is no adjustement they can make to win the match, the other boxer is just far superior.
 

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Usyk was absolutely fantastic but Joshua was very poor.

I guess that puts the potential Joshua vs Fury fight to bed now unless Joshua wins the belts back. Even then, I think Fury would hammer him.
 

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Warren said pre fight that AJ is gun shy now and he’s totally right. Ruiz has ruined him, he tries to box and it’s not his strength at all, not one big right even thrown tonight and that’s shocking.
Was always going to be hard to 'shoot' tonight anyway. Any time AJs right hand moved, Usyk's left was homing in. (Is it homing or honing? Feck it, coming in.)

AJ didn't even try to fight to his strength tonight which is probably a result of Usyk's strengths being so good. That's what the rematch will get built up on, just to try and make it seem like AJ might have a chance.
 

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Warren said pre fight that AJ is gun shy now and he’s totally right. Ruiz has ruined him, he tries to box and it’s not his strength at all, not one big right even thrown tonight and that’s shocking.
Warren is as bitter as they come. If you're not with him, you're shite.
 

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Got slapped and didn’t even have the decency to speak to the fans after the fight

Fury would kill him
 

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Was a poor fight Joshua is very limited which is why he has been protected. Usyk is good but is he a proper heavyweight? Certainly cant see him being able to cope with Fury.

Sadly we will no doubt have to endure AJ and Usyk again though.

This is not exactly a great era for heavyweight boxing
Explain how he's been protected?
 

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Yet again the home side gets destroyed at Spurs.
This is the history of Tottenham
 

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All these floods mocking Joshua, it seems people don't know how good Usyk was at CW. The real question was whether he could take his game up to the heavy's and do the same things and he's just shown he can. Usyk has always been a better P4P boxer than Joshua, so to mock Joshua really doesn't make sense.
It's boxing. When you lose you're shite and finished and can't fight.
 

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I think Joshua should have kept his bulk and gone out all guns blazing in the first 4 rounds hoping to get a KO or at least seriously damaging Usyk. He was never going to outbox him which is what he tried to do it seems
 

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Boxing clinic from Usyk. Joshua didn’t even get going.
 

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Same shite from AJ, poor head movement, easy to hit for somebody like Usyk. Why he doesn’t double up on his jab and impose himself I don’t know, trimmed down and tried to box with a limp arse jab and left his head there for Usyk to connect all night.

AJ doesn’t have a chance against Fury.
 

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All these floods mocking Joshua, it seems people don't know how good Usyk was at CW. The real question was whether he could take his game up to the heavy's and do the same things and he's just shown he can. Usyk has always been a better P4P boxer than Joshua, so to mock Joshua really doesn't make sense.
Doesn’t change the fact that he was bullied by someone 40lbs lighter than him at natural weights, which is embarrassing for a world title fight, especially when he’s the “champ”
 

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All these floods mocking Joshua, it seems people don't know how good Usyk was at CW. The real question was whether he could take his game up to the heavy's and do the same things and he's just shown he can. Usyk has always been a better P4P boxer than Joshua, so to mock Joshua really doesn't make sense.
Styles make fights and all that but Usyk seriously had more trouble against Chisora. It was a pretty abject performance from the Champ.
 

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Come on. :lol: This doesn’t mean he’s not a top boxer ffs
I've just won good money on Usyk points.

What I mean by top boxer btw, is historically. It's all hype, all build up, and in that fight he is still being taught a lesson at his age. AJ is up there in the current crop, but you watch that fight back in the morning with a clear mind and tell me he's got it.
 

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He can't think that he has an earthly chance of beating Usyk in a rematch.

But he has to because who the hell is he going to fight?

He either fights Usyk again or he retires.
 

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Needs to batter the shite out of one of those Paul Youtube bellends to really rehabilitate himself.