Tim Bradley believes that Anthony Joshua is “full of form” due to the speed with which he was put under IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois last Saturday. Joshua didn’t have time to think about the mental software he was taught by the many coaches he had during his 11 years of practice.
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Bradley feels that Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) has “evolved” technically with all the different trainers he’s had during his career. However, due to Dubois’ speed, Joshua was overwhelmed and couldn’t figure out which plan to use.
With all the technical knowledge Joshua was taught, he didn’t have time to sort out his mental gears because Dubois had pissed him off. Physically, Joshua looked similar to how he did against Wladimir Klitschko in 2017.
The difference is that when Dubois knocked Joshua down, he kept attacking him. Klitschko didn’t do that. When he knocked Joshua down, he chose to punch and let him go. That was dumb for Klitschko, and he should have won that fight because Joshua was hurt badly from the sixth to the tenth.
If you put last Saturday’s version of Dubois into a machine and flashed him into 2017, he would have knocked out Joshua fighting Klitschko.
“AJ has gotten a little better technically. He came through all those coaches. The thing is, if you force the speed on him, it’s like overloading the system,” said Tim Bradley speaking to Probox TV, talking about how Anthony Joshua gets confused and doesn’t think when he is forced to fight at the same speed as we saw him last time. Saturday night in his fight with Daniel Dubois.
When a fighter keeps changing coaches the way Joshua does, that gives them a lot of information, and they can’t process it the same way if they had the same coach from day one. If you only have one coach your whole career, you know what to do.
“He doesn’t know what to do. He has to react quickly, and it requires him to make quick decisions,” Bradley continued about Joshua. “I knew this coming in. Dubois excels when he comes forward. He is very explosive. You have that pendulum swing. He will go back and then come forward very quickly and close the distance on you.”
Joshua’s attitude of needing to change coaches every time he lost came back to bite him, making him unable to cope with a difficult situation last Saturday. This would not have happened if Joshua had stuck with the coach and turned himself into a champion.
“I think the war was won outside the gate. “When I saw AJ come out, he put his chin in the air with his hands down,” said Bradley. “I looked at my wife and said, ‘This is over.’ He is preparing to have his chin removed.’ As soon as that right hand landed, he didn’t recover from the first right hand.”
Joshua seemed to follow his coach, Ben Davison’s movement plan, which didn’t work because he allowed Dubois to follow him and pour full force. AJ never really got his offense going in the first round before he got cut, and was too injured in the remaining rounds to do much.
“It still looked like the same AJ, but his chin was up in the air. His hands are known. I don’t know if that had anything to do with the way he was trained. Well, that was AJ, folks. It was. He got jabbed, he got out of the zone, and Dubois came to win, and he showed up. “
It was a 100% rebuilt 100% Joshua, rebuilt back to factory detail, destroyed by Dubois. He didn’t win because Joshua was washed up, as some think, but instead he was facing a strong guy like Wladimir Klitschko. Joshua would have problems with Dubois early in his career.
“One more thing. This is the first fight since AJ fought Ruiz [in 2019]. He didn’t fight anyone who could punch. Think about that. His first real puncher, bro. “He’s never fought anyone who can punch that hard,” said Bradley.
AJ has faced the biggest boxer, Francis Ngannou, in the last five years since his second fight with Andy Ruiz. However, Ngannou, a boxer with one fight under his belt in the pro ranks, was completely unskilled and did not know how to use the power he had in his fight with Joshua last March. Aside from Ngannou, Joshua had never fought anyone who could punch, which allowed him to do well.
Joshua’s Opponents From Ruiz:
– Daniel Dubois
– Francis Ngannou
– Otto Wallin
– Robert Helenius
– Jermaine Franklin
– Oleksandr Usyk x 2
– Kubrat Pulev
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