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Anthony Joshua defeated Kubrat Pulev ahead of schedule. Anyone surprised? Unlikely. No one really believed in the Bulgarian – the coefficient was around eight, fans were waiting for a knockout, and experts noted that the age of the heavyweight should definitely drop. In general, everything went well.
But the Brit was more upset than pleased.
Joshua crushed with fizukha, but otherwise no fiction
The Brit was often scolded for the fight against Andy Ruiz, saying that Anthony was running away from a small rival. Like, why didn’t he go out and cut it? He was fine in that fight though. Almost dodge standing, calm, focused on the goal.
Good old Joshua came out of Pulev’s closet. Strong, powerful, with punch and purpose to convey it. Slightly slow on your feet, pulling your hand toward the opponent for too long. And, if it hits, sure.
Hit Anthony like a sledgehammer. If Wilder appears to be firing a gun at point-blank range, then the Brit swings and charges. The victim fails not because the blow comes instantly, but because he looks at the threat that goes into his head and is paralyzed, scared.
The first two rounds, these same shots from Joshua got nowhere. He attacked with curved sides to defend the Bulgarian. He did a little punch and it was fine, but it did hit the body a bit. That’s it. Anthony isn’t that late. He was simply not in a hurry and his body weight did not allow him to do so. The Briton again looked like a great bodybuilder more than a boxer.
In the third round, Anthony charged. First, he got away from Pulev’s rare attack and caught it with his right, then finished it at his favorite close range. Kubrat played, showed that he was not afraid and that he did not swim, although the opposite was obvious: now the Bulgarian would fall. Of course it fell. And then one more time.
The second knockdown almost became a blur: Joshua advanced, then began to push with an opponent, but still caught the moment when he opened under the signature uppercut. Once, and the opponent rests again. But Pulev somehow made it to the end of the round.
It seems that here it is, ready, take it and finish. But Anthony is everything: turn on, hit and turn off. The next rounds are not boring, but monotonous. And not just for Joshua.
Anthony, despite his obvious plan, calculated to score the opponent, was well aware that you can find yourself. Still, the opponent’s arms are long and the punch is present. And Pulev did nothing. Not that he was idle, no. He was completely passive. Distance, some incomprehensible hand movements, rivets and blows to the back of the head and ear – the whole Bulgarian plan for the fight.
This is partly to blame for the early fall. As soon as Pulev realized that on the other side they were reworking him with a jab, and on the near side they were setting him with an uppercut, he became confused and began to seek his happiness in episodes. And they were so few that there were none. Kubrat did not invent a single dangerous situation for his opponent, whom he promised to destroy.
As a result, Joshua played Pulev until the ninth round, having lost at most one, and then knocked him out. First, another uppercut: the third fall. Then the right fastball, almost, like in the Klitschko fight, goodbye, conscience.
No fantasy, especially no idea. An understandable heavyweight boxing whose goal is to knock each other out.
Fury can easily disassemble a Joshua
At the moment, we are familiar with two versions of Anthony. The first was in a battle with Pulev. A big, strong champion who can hit anyone, however he wants. But who is active only part of the fight and relies on the episodes when he finds an opponent. The second is in a rematch with Ruiz. Agile, fast, smart, but boring. The outcome of the fight with Fury will depend on how Anthony enters the ring.
For one thing, you can’t get away with it too easy – Fury is strong and will crush you with physics. Wilder was crushed, why doesn’t it work with Anthony, who lost extra muscles?
On the other hand, going out like this is so difficult means having a single hit. Of course, Fury will attack more and consequently open up, like Pulev in the situation with the first knockdown. But Tyson isn’t Kubrat either. There is a completely different intelligence, mobility and speed of thought.
Unlike the standing Pulev, Fury will not provide such opportunities. Maybe Usyk wouldn’t have given it, because Kubrat got too stuck in one spot, losing something that even a first-class player wouldn’t have missed. Although Alexander would still be extremely difficult due to anthropometry. Tyson definitely has no problem with dimensions.
As a result, we have Fury, who just needs to be himself and Joshua, who needs to decide what he believes in the most: his intelligence and the potential to catch Tyson. Or in your own fizukha and the possibility of catching a bigger opponent in the closing.
Will they be boxing for sure? But what about Usik?
Usyk is a mandatory contender for the WBO belt and can claim a fight with Joshua next. But apparently, Alexander and his team’s early position of “letting Joshua drop the belt and box with Fury” has changed.
Because the teams – both Bob Arum and Eddie Hearn – are talking about the fight for the absolute, the historic confrontation and the beginning of the organization of the fight since Monday. The Ukrainian’s last name is nowhere to be found.
They will most likely agree. Usyk, Hearn, Krasyuk and Arum will reach an economically profitable and, at the same time, clearly negotiated agreement, according to which the Ukrainian can immediately fight for the absolute or get his belt.
Alexander will meet Joe Joyce and if he survives the second wheelhouse of his life with this giant, he will become a champion in another category. But all this after Fury and Joshua determine the strongest.
There is no doubt that the British will agree. During a pandemic, these fights are the only way to earn real money and participate in a historic event. So why give up?
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