Oleksandr Usyk says Anthony Joshua made an enormous mistake in leaning again, which IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois capitalized on in his fifth spherical knockout win in London.
The unified champion Usyk explains that Joshua (28-4, 23 KOs) ought to have stood along with his head straight up and never leaning again, which Dubois took benefit of repeatedly to drop him 4 occasions of their fundamental occasion battle at Wembley Stadium.
Usyk beat a greater model of Joshua of their two fights, and he wasn’t leaning backward like he did in opposition to Dubois. It’s unclear if Joshua has been watching movies of different fighters and making an attempt to sample his type after theirs.
AJ had talked about learning the late heavyweight champion Sonny Liston’s fights. Nonetheless, that man didn’t lean backward throughout his battles. Liston was a slugger who would come after his opponents. He’d have been higher off if Joshua had mimicked Liston’s outdated combating type.
“I’m not shocked as a result of that is boxing. Daniel Dubois as we speak was higher,” mentioned Oleksandr Usyk to Boxing King Media, reacting to Anthony Joshua’s loss to Daniel Dubois. “Whenever you step again like this [leaning back], it’s harmful,” mentioned Usyk about how Joshua was harm by leaning again in opposition to Dubois. “After I beat Joshua a second time, I don’t know what’s subsequent.”
Dubois was coming ahead the complete battle, throwing exhausting jabs and trying to tag Joshua with proper arms. Within the first spherical, Dubois linked with a proper hand, catching Joshua leaning, and put him down on the canvas. Joshua appeared to by no means recuperate from that knockdown.
“I believed I used to be seeing a person with the face of AJ, however it was utterly completely different inside,” mentioned promoter Alex Krassyuk. “He didn’t look the best way we anticipated him to look. Did you see his proper hand? It was all the best way on his chest. So, his chin was up. It was like a fairy story for any boxer, not only for Dubois.”
Joshua has been learning somebody and picked up the unhealthy habits that we witnessed tonight in opposition to Dubois. He always tries to adapt his combating type relatively than being joyful utilizing the type that carried him this far in his profession.
A greater type for Joshua would have been to make use of the Wladimir Klitschko method that he’d utilized to defeat Andy Ruiz Jr. of their rematch in December 2019. That may have labored in opposition to Dubois if he had are available lighter and was prepared to maneuver for 12 rounds. Joshua was too heavy for him to make use of the Klitschko type.
