Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk: What AJ must do to win rematch, explains Carl Frampton | Boxing News
Oleksandr Usyk is the favorite to repeat the win over Anthony Joshua in their epic rematch on August 20, live on Sky Sports Box Office. But the fight will be very different from their first encounter, and boxing experts warn against discounting former heavyweight champion Joshua.
“A lot of people are saying Usyk [wins] and it’s hard to disagree with them. It seems like an uphill fight for both of them but we know what Joshua has to do to try to beat Usyk – use his size and strength and appear to be a bully,” said former Two-weight world champion Carl Frampton says Sports sky.
“But what worries me is that I don’t think Joshua can do that for long. It’s that he can’t fight at high speed and push people around and close them in a long fight. long.
“He needs to do it quickly and I think when he has a round where he uses a lot of energy, he’s going to have to take the next round. It’s just because of his size. really, and his bodybuilding and his makeup.
“But I think he has to close, he has to use rough tactics and impose his power. A bit like [Wladimir] Klitschko used to be able to do, hit people, push them down and just tire them out. But will he be able to do it? “
Usyk though is also perfectly adaptable for the second battle.
“Usyk is clearly a very smart fighter. He expected a different kind of approach from Joshua this time as it would have to be,” Frampton said.
“You put a gun to my head [to make a prediction], I’m saying Usyk wins the war. But I don’t think it will be as easy as many people do. “
One way or another, Frampton is expecting to see an end in the distance.
“I think because of what AJ would have to do in the skirmish and he was exhausted at the end of the last game and he was also injured at the end of the last game, I think if he doesn’t get out. Usyk, I think he might have been stopped late,” he said.
“I hope I’m wrong.”
‘Don’t abbreviate Anthony Joshua’
With Usyk vs Joshua on Sky Sports Box Office on August 20, a BOXXER fighter may be on the bill.
“We worked really hard to really make that deal a reality,” said BOXXER’s Ben Shalom. “I’m not a promoter [of this event], where the fight takes place is not up to me but we are very interested that it landed on Sky. Anthony Joshua is a great thing for Sky, a huge relationship there and they feel like this is the biggest fight of his career. So it’s important that it be on Sky.
“The biggest fight possible on the biggest possible platform and reaching as many people as possible. And that’s what it ultimately worked out for.”
“As a boxing fan, I would watch it,” he added. “The end of [first] fighting, if you think back to the time the battle happened, this day or the week after everyone said AJ shouldn’t come near Oleksandr anymore. ‘There was no chance he could beat Oleksandr, no matter what he did, he was defeated.’ Now we’re sitting here eight months later and people think it’s a 50-50 fight and maybe that’s true.
“Maybe because of the changes Anthony made to his training camp, to his coach, to his mentality, maybe that’s why this fight now become even more, 50-50 more. I think we all see that AJ’s mind isn’t “wrong” and maybe his game plan isn’t right and his mind incorrect.
“So what if his game plan is right and his mind is right? Those are two big question marks right? So if he can tick those boxes, I’m sure. sure he will,” concluded Frampton.
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