Heavyweight Boxing

Style wise I think Parker hammers Dubois. Too versatile and resilient. Dubois has much better chance v Whyte, who is probably shot to bits now.

The money men are hoping for an AJ win and then AJ vs Fury. Which I think will happen if AJ wins

How it plays out remains to be seen, but I think it's clear that AJ needs something different than the timid and cautious box type approach from fight 1.

He's 6 feet 6 and 245 lbs. He's clearly the bigger man. He needs to act and behave like he is, and show some balls and give it an actual go. HW champion of the world in fight 1 and fought like a windbag I felt. That approach may works against the likes of a fat unprepared Ruiz, or Parker, but not against Usyk

I am not sayin new approach and tactics means he wins. I am saying he needs to change. He needs to try a deal harder everywhere!!

It's been done to death the whole who did he he beat, and the other lad beat etc....

The top 5 HWs rated in the world now.....I can't get excited over any of their resumes....

You can pick and poke at them all.

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Biggest question mark in this fight for me is what did the 2 to 3 months in Ukraine do to Usyk's shape & engine ,

Obviously he had more important stuff to worry about but how did it effect his weight it took him time to build up to heavy weight correctly ,

So it'll be interesting to see did it have an effect on his body composition , Hard to think he was training and eating as well as pre AJ 1,

So where is he size wise ,

The weight is a massive issue for me & could be his undoing

I also truly believe AJ didn't want this fight but has no where else to go, If the fight goes beyond 3/4 rounds AJ will pack it & be stopped .

He did go the full 12 in fight 1......no reason why he cannot go 12 in fight 2, should fight 2 be similar....unless you believe that Usyk piles on pressure from rds 5 onwards to get a stoppage...

Falls apart mentally, physically or both?

I mean, if he has really trained hard and prepared physically, then his body should be able to go rds here

I think sometimes the mental side things is over-analyzed.

I was worried about that originally as he was reportedly walking around at low 190s when he left Ukraine but it has been months now since he is in Poland. The more this fight has got delayed has suited him, I imagine he is in shape by now.

He was never retiring,

Remember the talk of retirement happened exactly on the same day that Whyte never turned up to the presser,

It was Fury thinking on his feet on how to sell the fight without Whyte's help , so he quite cleverly said this is my last fight last chance to see me in action & boom it sold out ,

In the weeks leading up he had talked about becoming undisputed and sticking around, He has bee entraining every day since the fight & hasn;t handed over the belt, it was a gimmick to sell tickets

He's being well defended.....

The chap was far far bigger than the lad walking towards him....he did not need to use such force, and that could have killed that man.

He's a former HW pro boxer....his hands/skills/capabilities (along with his large size/weight) against the clearly smaller man....well

He should have dealt with it differently, but the lad had literally just been throwing punches at people & then raised his hand to Francis so its his own fault,

The problem with incidents like that are if he bangs his head on the concrete on the way down you could be looking at murder/manslaughter charge all over nothing, Terrible waste of life for everyone involved ,

Ye agree,

Just one thing the reason Francis walked around the other side is door security 101 ,

The lad walked out around the barrier with the bouncers the other side,& thus feels "safe" & will 9 times out of 10 more aggressive ,

As he feels the barrier is protecting him & he can lean in throw something and run off,

So Francis does what he should and also goes the other side of the barrier & behind him but not right behind gives him room , makes the bloke think twice about doing something ,

Remember the bouncer duty is not just to protect his other door men but to members of the public who walk up to the pub or even past it