Boxing Thread

[Syferus]

Takam showed some bottle to fight through the injury, and before it he was asking some questions of Joshua. You'd have to question Joshua's performance post Takam's cut as it took him a very long time to put away a badly hurt fighter. Wilder is pretty poor but if Fury was fully motivated it would make an interesting fight.

[gallsman]

Wilder isn't "poor". He's by no means the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time but he's certainly not "poor". AJ's chin has shown that it can be tickled. Wilder comes roaring out of the blocks and lands on him? Who knows.

[Syferus]

Wilder isn't "poor". He's by no means the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time but he's certainly not "poor". AJ's chin has shown that it can be tickled. Wilder comes roaring out of the blocks and lands on him? Who knows.

I think Wilder can punch but as a boxer he is severely limited. Even his stance and how he holds his guard is loose and sloppy. There's not much to him. Joshua would beat him pretty comfortably with anything approaching his Klitschko fight form.

[gallsman]

He is certainly limited but AJ ain't no Joe Louis or Muhammad Ali either. Look at the state of Dillian White tonight and think of the problems he caused AJ a few years ago.

Wilder is big and can bang. That could well be enough to beat AJ in my opinion.

[nrico2006]

White didnt really trouble Joshua.  Wilder is poor to be honest and you would expect Joshua to win.

[gallsman]

He didn't really trouble him apart from the bit where he nearly knocked him out.

[JimStynes]

Joshua was in serious trouble against White at one stage. Recovered well to be fair. I don't rate Joshua that highly as a boxer. Very robotic and gases out at times. That Takam fella had much better boxing skills but didn't have the power to trouble Joshua that much. Heavyweight division is poor enough. I quite like Joshua but sky would sicken you the way they talk about him.

[DuffleKing]

Of all the examples over the years of posters racing to get offended on behalf of someone else, that might just be the worst. Eejit.

Lads - do me the favour of not quoting this clown - it's the only way I will have to see / read his contributions

[stew]

Of all the examples over the years of posters racing to get offended on behalf of someone else, that might just be the worst. Eejit.

Lads - do me the favour of not quoting this clown - it's the only way I will have to see / read his contributions

Such as they are! Well said.

[nrico2006]

Joshua is pretty much unbeatable to be honest. Somebody might come along in a few years that changes that, but he will have it handy the next 3/4 years.

[Wildweasel74]

he needs to drop a stone, hes too muscle bound and it affects his mobilty to avoids punches

[lurganblue]

Hope he fights Wilder next. It looks like Fury will never get his act together so the only fight out there is surely the Wilder one.

[oakleaflad]

Joshua is pretty much unbeatable to be honest. Somebody might come along in a few years that changes that, but he will have it handy the next 3/4 years.

I would disagree. I think he's the best at the moment but not by a huge margin. I think he's better than Wilder but Wilder could KO him. Joshua was rocked by Dillian Whyte. Would be really interested to see him in with a fully fit and focused Tyson Fury too.

Would like to see Wilder v Whyte and Joshua v Parker next, then the winners meet and by that stage hopefully Fury is in decent shape and can get a tune up fight or two in too.

[nrico2006]

I'd love to see him fight Fury too, but the big problem is that if he beats Parker and Wilder then there isn't going to be much of a challenge in the forseeable future. 

Most fighters get hurt at some stage, and with the power the heavyweights have its inevitable that you can be hurt in any fight.  Wilder caught him with a good shot but he took it well and he recovered well against Klitschko too.  Wilder could land one of his wild swings on him but Wilder will be hit harder than he ever has before and won't have the same size advantage he has had over the fighters he has previously fought.

[GetOverTheBar]

Like the rest of you I would also like to see Fury get himself back on track.

I do think the fight will happen though - Serious money could be made of it and that'll get it over the line.....eventually.