That's not a close fight, i agree. It was a masterful performnce and complete domination by Usyk and IMO there would be not much difference on the outcome of the second fight. Unlike in the fight against Ruiz where we can say that it was just a lucky punch that turned the fight around in favor of Ruiz. Joshua's confidence will not be here and this time he will be the one that needs a lucky punch to knock Usyk out.
Many experts also thought Joshua has no chance against Ruiz in their second chance but Joshua manage to turn things around, Joshua is dedicated to going back to the gym and see what went wrong and he wants the Fury match to happen, if Joshua turns things around against Ruiz he can do it again against Usyk, he's been in this situation before, he is good in making a comeback, let's see if he can do it again.
I think Usyk is far better and also a much bigger threat than Ruiz was. Anything can happen in boxing though and one punch can change that game as happened in the Ruiz fight. I think if Fury had ten matches against Wilder Wilder would win a couple of them at least. Ruiz didn't take the rematch as seriously as he should have done and paid the price.
Joshua has been known for come back after a devastating defeat and that makes this JOSHUA vs USYK II exciting as when he fought against Ruiz for the second time. Their strategy works to beat Ruiz and if they can execute the same working strategy then he can easily regain back and might have the chance to fight Fury in his next match.
Somehow I don't think Usyk is going to go on a diet of booze and McDonalds for the rematch
. It's going to be interesting to see what game-plan he comes up with. Is he going to try beef up? AJ is already in peak physical shape so I don't he can do much unless he really hits the weights but like I said before don't think it's a good idea.
It's not that AJ is slower than Usyk, it's just he cannot fight a southpaw boxer the same way as he fights an orthodox boxer. The tempo, the feel, the angle, everything is so messed up. He cannot get used to fighting a southpaw boxer in just a few months, so better gamble would be going for in-fight against Usyk.
Maybe not slower, but definitely less agile. I think that's the biggest issue here, and the fact that Joshua seems a little more gun shy since the Andy Ruiz fight. Until Joshua can either counter those problems, or make improvements on those fronts then I can't see him winning the rematch, and it's looking increasingly likely that it'll be a Fury vs Usyk unification fight, which to be honest I think is a good match up. Although, I'd like to see Fury win that, and then move onto Joshua just to prove he's the best of the current heavyweight fighters.
He wasn't gun shy on the Pulev fight and he won via KO if I'm not mistaken.
Pulev is pretty old at 40. He won't be able to tire Usyk out and go in for the kill later on in the fight when he's fatigued. That's pretty much what Usyk did to AJ. If that fight would have gone on another round or maybe even another ten seconds AJ would have gone down.
. I doubt whether AJ could emulate that this time against Oleksandr Usyk. The next fight i want to see is Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury and AJ facing Wilder.
