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Cedric discusses his scorecard from the bout between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua. Drop your scorecard and educated explanations in the comments live during the show. Or after – we always respond to comments.
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Transcribed:
[ Music ] great in show, i love the new intro.
What up? What up? What up? Welcome to the scorecard boxing scorecard, where i ask people to bring your scorecard and an explanation, not just simply your opinion, the different location, as you can see here today, i got a little get a little business meeting and uh after this, so anyways.
If there’s a little bit of extra background noise, i apologize ahead of time um, but still have to get this through all right.
Let’S get right to it! Last night we had the big heavyweight championship of the world.
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The super heavyweight championship of the world was last night, the rematch part two, let’s get to the slides now with mr anthony joshua and alex sanders.
I love.
I have to start off with this with this first picture here, because uh this was a perfect example of you know: they’re they’re, both their characters going into this fight olex down there, oh sigma, let’s get to the to the to their stats.
First, alex ander usic is uh.
Let me pull up his no i’ll start with anthony joshua.
First, you know i like to pronounce pronounce their their full names and everything so anthony joshua pronounced anthony olo joshua turned pro in 2013 after after his gold medal in the 2012 olympics, uh, which he did very good turned pro after that, his record is 24 wins.
22 lockouts 22 knockouts, with three losses now and alexander usic.
I do my best to pronounce their names properly, but his his name is actually spelled in uh in ukrainian.
So i can’t even say english letters um, but yeah.
He is 35 years old.
Anthony johnson was 32.
uh.
Usyk is 35 years old.
He also turned pro in 2013 after his gold medal in the 2012 olympics.
All right all right, all right, you can switch it up now.
Oh, we already got the the comments coming in good morning, david chase.
I will get your comments in just one second, after i get through the quick intro here um, as you can see by the tail of the tape not too much of an age difference in between them.
The reach and height the the weight and height was the big thing.
Anthony joshua has about uh, it doesn’t say there, but i think just has about a 20 to 30 pound weight difference on uh on usyk and um.
The way usic fought was was was just perfect.
I honestly believe that.
Well, let me let’s get to the to how the fight the results of the fight.
It was a split decision win for alexander usyk um.
One judge had it 115 113 for for anthony joshua.
Another judge had it 115 to 113 for usyk and another judge had it exactly what i scored it, which was 116 to 112 for alexander usyk, uh and i’ll go through my my scorecard in a second and just to confirm.
I didn’t i didn’t put post this on uh any social media, but i did predict the the how exactly how this fight would go.
This is from the chat here, as you can see, look in the blue usic by split decision.
Joshua’S offense will be better with his new coach, but not his defense and that the better, just at the bottom, just to confirm good call, cedric sports.
What i said first of all, let’s go through the details of it.
Usic is one of the most underrated boxers in the sport of boxing.
The reason why i say that is because not too many not too many people talk about him but uh.
You know.
Maybe he doesn’t speak english he’s not on social media that much um, but his boxing skills speak for themselves.
Um.
I compared alexander usyk to evander holyfield a long time ago.
A lot of people thought i was crazy.
By making this comparison, evander holyfield is regarded as one of the the greatest boxes of ever, especially of the heavyweight division of the golden era, as they say in the 90s um.
The reason why i compare them to evander holyfield is because they have the exact same career.
They are both started off as smaller guys in the end.
In the amateur level, they both won a gold medal at the light light heavyweight division.
You see the light heavyweight or right underneath heavyweight um.
They turned professional at the they turned pro in the cruiserweight division, cleaned out, cleaned out their cruiserweight division.
I know it’s not heavily.
It’S not a heavy heavy division but evanderweight evander, holyfield, cleaned out that division and then moved up to heavyweight, and that’s the exact same thing that uh that usyk did cleaned out the the cruiserweight division and then moved up the heavyweight where every single fight.
He is.
The smaller guy um [ Music ], and you know what let me before before the comments get too uh backed up.
Let me get let me get to the chats first uh, you had it david chase good morning good morning, thanks for for coming in um, i had it 9-3 in the early rounds, for the early rounds were competitive, but usyk mostly always had the edge landing more Effective punches overall joshua was not busy enough and got out hustled for most of the part, yeah yeah yeah yeah, exactly um, exactly exactly what i thought too um i’ll go through my scorecard in a second after i go through these.
These uh comments uh, because music, southpaw jab footwork defense had him befuddled and tentative yeah man.
U6 skills are very underrated.
Man, people don’t talk about him.
He should be on everyone’s town for poundless uh, chris peters.
Good morning you had it 116 to 112 usyk uh.
Despite losing, i think if aj comes back and fury and fury and usyk walk into the sunset after their possible fight, he probably ruled the division again in a couple of years.
As is see, i that’s another thing, i’m going to talk about that in a second one after i talk about my scorecard, but you know someone brought up this point.
What’S with getting the belt and just simply retiring what happened to the days of everyone? You know the fighting all the up-and-comers or whoever it was to defend defending your belt.
It’S not just simply winning it and retiring, but we’ll talk about that after chris peters.
Also added um as his performance was good.
I thought it as good as it could be.
Um, what for aj yeah, yeah um, i think chris peters, also added in uh – you had it 115 for usyk was possible, but 115 for joshua was not yeah yeah.
I you know i’ll go to my card in a second, but i only give joshua a couple of rounds um, so you won money, then hey! No, i didn’t bet.
I didn’t bet.
I need to start deal.
I need to start the bet, though uh my man nick leishman, good morning, 116 to 112 for usyk for me, yeah, that’s where i had it despite losing um, oh yeah.
I already read that of years of performance as good as i thought it could be.
Why am i reading this choice? Uh my man noel? What up? What up? First time in the chat? What up uh eight rounds to four for joshua um, one of joshua won an extra round in the rematch for me, joshua, despite having more success, still hasn’t learned to use his size yeah i’ll, get to that in a second too.
His tactics seem to be just to work, the body more more to slow, using down and use more head movement.
He isn’t so easy to counter when he attacks.
Yes, yes, yes, thank you very much for your comments, though i’ll i’ll adjust those exact things right after i give my scorecard so um yeah.
I had it 116 to 112 for for usyk uh.
My exact round comments for each round round.
One gave it to usyk um, he was just simply simply more active.
It was a close round.
It kind of looked like the beginning of the first fight, the second round, the second and third round i gave to joshua second round he joshua controlled a little bit more of the action.
Joshua was busier and his punches looked a little bit more effective simply because he weighed 30 pounds heavier than his opponent um round.
Three, like i said, also gave it to joshua.
He landed cleaner and more effective, also because of the size in that third round.
He was really using his size in a smart way, landing clean, landing, clean and uh and using his size appropriately, a lot of people were saying before the fight.
You know he shouldn’t try to outbox that he just he’s just use his size, but it’s not just simply doing that.
You still have to use some type of boxing skills.
You can go on to the next slides now uh, some type of boxing skills to to to to to get to your opponent, um round four round, four and round four up until yeah round four five and six and seven i gave to usyk round four.
I believe you control the ass.
The action gupsic landed, more um with landing, more multiple left hands crosses who’s.
Uzik is a southpaw.
He was landing a lot more left hands uh round five.
I thought using dominated the round.
I thought it was just clear for usyk round six control the action usic not dominating, but he’s winning he’s winning.
He was winning.
He was winning the rounds not down anything, but he definitely was winning round eight lamb, joshua land.
I learned eight i gave to joshua just landed, cleaner and more effective because of his size um round nine was anthony, joshua’s best fight out of both rounds best round out of both fights.
He clearly won that that ninth round, that was his best round out of both those fights versus ooh sick.
However, this shows us uh um greatness.
He came back.
He came back in that tenth round like as if the ninth round didn’t happen, um and straight dominated dominated the 10th round round 11, who six jab is just great um.
His countering is greatness too, especially as the shorter guy i’ll give my details on that.
In a second and round 12 was just clear for usyk.
You know we got another comment here.
My man noel says, but he still hasn’t, learned to use his lead hand to control a smaller, faster opponent, never used his body weight up close to lean on using apart from last run when he was tired and falling into yeah you’re right and that last round, When he was leaning into him that wasn’t like an um, an educated lien like how tyson fury knows how to use his body weight to lean on someone that was just an exhaustion, lean, um, noel, the way vlad or lewis and pierre use their size.
Joshua lacks in his arsenal and that’s and it’s and it’s why he’ll never beat music and why he’s also couldn’t deal with reese’s uh roose jr up close uh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, certain things.
Certain things are hard: our heart for the big guy versus the smaller guy um, both smaller, faster men when allowed to let their hands, go and range battered him yeah yeah.
Thank you for your educated comment.
Man.
I could tell you really followed the support noel.
So this guy usic man, these these these past two fights that usyk had against against anthony joshua, i honestly believe were a master class in how a smaller guy is supposed to fight a bigger guy.
Specifically, what i mean is this is more evident in the heavyweight division where, where um, where you know, there’s no weight limit, you guys have a 30 40 50 pound weight difference.
Anything over.
I believe it’s 205.
You know i’m saying, there’s no there’s no weight limit.
After that, no weight limit after that, but there’s a specific way now this specific strategy for a small guy to beat her bigger guy can be used in any weight class um, especially you have to use it in the heavyweight division, but even in the smaller weight Classes, there’s only about 10 pound difference, but you can use this strategy.
For example, if it’s a small, if you’re a smaller guy fighting a a ko artist, someone that’s undefeated with all knockouts – and you know you have to be very careful and very cautious, not cautious, but smart um, while you’re while you’re facing this person.
This is the strategy that you need to use.
This is exactly what usyk did: [ Music ] um.
The two second rule, one two, three, four five.
I have five points that i’m going to talk about real quick.
First of all, the two second rule: you never want to stand in front of your opponent for more than two seconds now.
Obviously, you’re not gon na stand there and count one two, but ideally the easiest way to remember this is just whatever you’re, throwing whatever hand you finish with you’re gon na move over to to that side.
So if you finish with your left hand, move to your left, as you finish with your right hand, move over to your right easiest way to remember the two second rule um, either with your upper body or with your lower body either.
The second one is random.
Head movement, random, head movement, which you do not just with your head, but you can do it with your upper body.
You know using your your core to lean back and and and moving into all in all types of directions, or keeping your upper body a little bit more stationary and using your legs bending your legs to to duck under slip to the side lean back.
Obviously, in both cases, you’re still using your upper body and lower body, it’s a little bit more of one or the other, depending on what you’re doing the third one is having an educated jab and, of course, you guys hear me repeat this all the time, but This is even more important if you’re the shorter fighter fighting a taller boxer, a taller boxer who knows how to how to use their their.
Who knows how to use their wreaths.
You guys, don’t forget.
You know people people call anthony joshua crazy for trying to box usyk, but anthony joshua won a gold medal at the olympics too.
So he’s not he’s not just like a a random heavyweight heart puncher.
He does know how to box.
Obviously, as you see, there’s levels to this, and using definitely showed that there’s levels to this, but anthony joshua is definitely a definitely a good boxer.
The reason why i bring that up.
The reason why i bring that up is because his strategy of of uh, of using his size of what, what i was talking about, having an educated jab as the taller person.
He did land a couple of good jabs, but they weren’t all accurate.
They weren’t all accurate and they weren’t all thrown at at the right time, usyk being the shorter fighter, which means he has the shorter reach is a shorter reach had to move his his.
He had to move even more efficiently with his in and out movement or his lateral movement to uh to to land his offense, so using educated jeff was definitely uh.
The the major factor in um in the in both guys boxing skills there number four number four was not number four – was not throwing bombs but still uh, but filtering respectable power as the shorter guy.
When you’re moving and like i said this is not just for heavyweights, where it’s the biggest difference, but even in the shorter weight classes, if you’re you know, you guys still weigh the same, but you know some guys just simply punch harder than others.
So if you’re, the boxer – that’s that’s the not the the hard puncher.
What you want to try to do is not to throw you don’t have to throw power, because that that guy is not going to feel it that much especially i apologize.
This is more if you’re moving up a weight class, if you’re moving up a weight class, your skills have to be up to par, or your power have to be up to par.
If your power is not up there, then your skills have to be up there.
You don’t have to have one punch, knockout power, but you have to have respectable enough power that your opponent won’t just simply walk you down, and so that’s why aj did that’s.
Why anthony joshua didn’t just simply walk him down because he knew because usyk still, you know, i don’t know his exact way.
Can someone put in the chat they’re both guys weights? Please can someone find both guys weights as i’m talking um, because usyk his punches did? Not have as much effect on joshua, but they did have enough effect for joshua not to simply not respect, uzik and walk him down all right and the fifth one was probably just is just as important.
All these are important, but the the fifth one is: is you can’t have you can’t do any of the other ones without this fifth one and that’s having exceptional cardio, exceptional cardio, if you’re, the smaller guy fighting a bigger guy or the harder puncher you have to You have to in order to do those those four other things that i had that i said before, you know, implement the two second rule, never standing in front of your opponent for more than two seconds having random head movement, which requires more upper body, movement or Lower body movement, whichever one you want to use more, having an educated jab, which means using it more with that educated jab, not throwing not throwing bombs but still having respectable power, which means you have to throw more not much.
But you have to throw more, which takes more cardio.
So all four of those things there takes exceptional cardio and that’s exactly what what alexander usik had last night and that’s exactly the formula for a smaller guy to beat a bigger guy, yeah man.
This was simply a master class, any boxes out there, specifically any south boxers.
If you again, this is not just i’ll just stop right now, because i already repeat myself a couple of times: smaller guy fighting, a bigger guy master class study.
Both of these fights not just this fight the first one too.
Moving on to mr joshua, i predicted this before the fight too.
I said his offense.
He he switched coaches, oh yeah, that’s another thing! Wait! Let me let me get to a few of these comments here before i before i go off on mr joshua uh paul cullen.
Good morning, good morning, maybe aj should have had a couple of fights under new coach before a rematch with usyk, probably against azor and dylan white aj will definitely lift the belts again.
He’S he’s still young.
Yes, yes, i agree with that he’s only 32 years old.
He definitely has time to come back and do his thing.
Um definitely has time to come back and do his thing.
Um.
Mr nick leishman comes in 117 for 111 for usyk kind of bizarre in the in that, although overall i thought that joshua did better than last time and it was a bit more competitive, i had it wider this time because i scored usic winning more rounds.
Yeah yeah i mean anthony joshua only had one dominant round, and that was round nine, the other any other rounds that anybody gave to joshua.
They were close rounds like they they could have still went either way round.
Nine was only like clear, clear around for for for joshua um.
That was a bit closer, but he still won him in a few of them.
Uh negating some of aj’s best work talking about usyk yeah, so oh look, usyk, weighed 100 kg, so 100 kilograms.
That’S like what, like 200 and 208, or something like that: 208 210.
Something like that and anthony joshua was 111 kilograms.
So so so that’s about 230 right, yeah, yeah yeah! So yeah, like i said about 20 20 25 pounds, pound difference, um, so yeah! I was talking about anthony joshua and um, one of the things that bothers me as a coach, you know being a coach, it kind of it kind of bothers me.
When i hear about a a pro boxer, you know they go through their whole career.
Having all this success, they get one or two losses and then fire their coach like it’s like it has to be the coaches fault, when the coach is the one that that was there, helping them get to that uh get to that height of success and in Some cases it might be true, whatever you know we’re not in the gym.
We don’t know what what personal relationship people have sorry for the extra background music here um.
We don’t know what personal relationship you know a coach coach in a box would have.
But you know it just kind of bothers me when, when a boxer, specifically boxes that are undefeated and doing very successful, not just the average boxer but boxes that are doing that are undefeated doing very successful for a good amount of time.
One or two step backs and all of a sudden, if the coach’s fault they need to fire the coach when, instead of taking more accountability and responsibility on themselves for for what they could have done better and been, you know what they could have done better, so That was the case here, so anthony joshua decided to fire after his last lost desire to fire his coach and hire robert garcia who’s.
A very good coach, his brother is his brother is mikey garcia, who had a very just recently retired, very good career himself.
Um robert garcia has coached for a few years now his biggest fighters were marcos maidana when maidana fought mayweather for those two fights and gave it mayweather competitive fight, robert garcia was was his coach, so you know he does have experience at the top level, but it’s Exactly what i said was going to happen, i said anthony joshua’s offense will be better yeah.
His offense will be better, but his defense will not be better because the way, the way that uh, that that usyk was was touching him up, and i specifically used the word like touching them up because they weren’t, like i said they weren’t like power shots anthony Joshua, you know his eyes were a little bit swollen, but you know it was it wasn’t that much so like he was really just touching him up with shots and and and doing his thing um.
But it was enough again enough to to prevent anthony joshua.
Just from from walking him down, so he didn’t need a coach.
I don’t think anthony joshua needed to switch coaches to like what he did last night.
He didn’t need a new coach to do what he did last night, that he didn’t need a new coach to do that.
He needed a new coach to help his defense get better if his defense would have been better to make usyk miss just to make him block or to simply make him miss.
That would have gave him more confidence to come forward and then and then his offense would have been even even more better um, because again, this is the success that anthony joshua had in the early rounds.
You could you can see, you can see the the the little bit of difference that robert garcia, his new coach gave him um.
Anthony dawson was going to the body a little bit more and just in general, like it wasn’t anything that really stood out.
But you know he just he just landed a little bit better.
He was a little bit more aggressive, which is what um leading up to the fight robert, his coach, his new coach, robert garcia, said in multiple interviews.
That’S what he wanted.
He said.
I want anthony joshua to to be more aggressive, to get more mean, and that’s that’s what told me okay aggressive mean those are offensive things.
Those are offensive, things being more aggressive and more mean how you gon na do.
What are you gon na do to avoid those things happening to you um? So i don’t know man um again he’s only 32 years old he’s still young enough to to to change things around.
I hope he’s not going to be one of these guys that bounces from coach to coach – i don’t know if i was him i’d go back to – i don’t know, go back to his old coach and just tell them.
We need to just focus on defense because again what he did last night, he looked a little bit better.
You know my man look nick leishman said himself, even though joshua looked better and it was more competitive.
You know he still had a wider score than the first one, so i mean he needs a coach for it to to apply better defense and that comes in training, multiple ways to do this, whether you’re shadow boxing, sometimes just shadow boxing.
Here’S your educational boxing moment of the week i’m gon na try to do that every week and give an educational moment for what the fighter needs to do.
Three ways to improve your defense number one with shadow boxing simply doing a round of only defense.
You know shadow boxing’s fun for most people because in general, because you know you learn the punching part boxing in general, if you ask somebody if they want to box, if you know they think about the fun part like learning how to punch and learning, you know How to knock people out or whatever nobody thinks about that stuff? You know avoiding that part so anyways, i don’t want to get too off track.
Three ways to improve your defense shadow boxing do a round of shadow boxing.
Only your defense, you can do another round of specifically counter punching.
You can break up that defense too shadow box uh one round like just slipping slipping punches.
Do another round of ducking under using your legs to duck under another round of just simply blocking the five blocks to the side to the body and then closing the door on the bag? Same thing just apply those things on the bag and then on on uh and sparring, which is the number one way to improve your skills for for your next competition.
Little things the number one way what i like to do with the with my boxers, the ones that are that are better in skilled and have more experience i’ll, take the newer ones.
Okay, i guess i see some new ones coming coming in i’ll.
Take the newer ones and the ones like someone else that are national champions, i’ll say to the novice boxes they have to, they have they can throw all their punches, they want, and the the the more experienced boxer can’t throw anything they can only throw their defense.
Then, once the novice boxes get a little bit better they’ll, let them throw their jab, they can add their jab and then you know, then you slowly apply it from there.
They can add two punches and then and then going from there um.
So those are your three ways to add: to improve your defense during training shadow boxing.
Only defense do a couple of rounds of only defense and counter punching on the bag.
The same thing that you’re shadow boxing apply that on the bag with the counter punching and then inspiring, take a boxer that you know is not as experienced and let them throw all their punches at the experienced boxer.
So they can work on their defense.
Maybe let the the even even though they’re a novice boxer, let them wear bigger gloves since they have the advantage of not having any punches thrown back at them.
Let me get to a few comments that i missed here: tracy snowden, thank you for coming in good morning good morning.
Defense is a strong 60 of a fight if you know how to switch it up with different types of evasive movements.
Set up moves for attack 100 and 100.
Thank you for that comment.
Defense is my number one thing often like i said offense it’s easy to get better at offense, because that’s the fun part of boxing the hard part is avoiding that part.
So yeah you’re 100 right tracy and i believe this is your first time um first time in the comment section, so thank you uh my man zev.
He slept in for the fight.
Let’S all get us all good.
He could just rewind um.
You could just rewind this scorecard here and get uh all the action.
What else do we got? What else we got? Oh, yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes, um! So, as far as anthony joshua improving um, you know at 32 at 32 years old, someone would say some some might say you know he’s too old to to learn new tricks.
Now, here’s the thing at 32 years old, yes, athletically, athletically, you’re, not gon na, really do anything new at 32 years old.
That’S that’s when that’s when you start to decline in your physical.
You know your your physical prime, so at 32, anthony joshua was 32 years old, so he’s not gon na learn anything new athletically, but what he can learn is to use his brain more and be more smarter, so not learn new actions but learn how to better Apply those actions when to apply those actions in in a fight, that’s what he can still improve on and hey man.
You guys know how much i i emphasize defense um, i’m sure, there’s other coaches that emphasize defense.
I don’t know as much as much as me, though, but hey i got a gym.
He could come to all right what else we got no comments, whatever? What are the score cards? What’S what other scorers? We got scorecards or comments any questions.
Where do we go from here between the two, the two fighters you can bring, it uh bring it uh, bring the slides back to the beginning and run them back by the time you get to back to the beginning.
Maybe just switch them up every like 30 seconds or something like that um.
Where do we go from here here? I’M gon na make a clear statement right now and i know there’s not too many people that will agree with me on this.
I honestly believe alexander usic will beat tyson fury.
Yes, i said it.
Yes, i said it the skills, man, the skills.
If you want to compare their skill level, i definitely think usyk has a better better skill level than tyson fury.
Tyson fury’s skill level is is is mainly from his size, um there’s not too many, there’s not too many, there’s not too many, not too many.
You can’t on one hand how many guys are six foot, nine, almost 300 pounds and that are athletic like tyson fury.
So i believe tyson fury’s, it’s more of his athleticism being that size, not his uh, not his skills.
Yes, yes, yes, i was gon na get to that in a second, too um.
You talked about the top ranked card i’m gon na get back to.
I was just talking about that.
What what’s next for usyk and fury? I just got navi’s asking about the the the top ranked card.
Um navarate fought last night yeah, he won, he looked a little uh um.
He had some time off, so he he looked a little bit.
Uh had a little bit of ring rust in there um, but navarrate he’s he’s he’s he’s someone that so unorthodox in his punches very unorthodox in his punches um and uh.
So it’s hard to adjust to him because they’re all power punches, he throws power punches from different angles: uh navarrate and that’s at the 135 pound division.
No, no! That’S lower! That’S! Like 126.
! All right back to usyk and fury what i was saying about, usyk and fury.
I think i really, i honestly think skills can take out tyson fury.
Tyson fury definitely has the height and and against his two biggest titan three’s, two biggest wins tyson ferry’s two biggest wins were against.
Wer were against um klitschko with one of the klitschko brothers and deontay wilder and both of those fights in both of those fights he.
He superiorly outbox those guys and that’s why people believe that that you know for those two fights people are crying for.
You know that the best he probably is the best i can, but you can’t even call the best fighter and breast heavyweight of this of this uh, the best heavyweight of this generation.
We haven’t even fought the best heavyweight you fought with deontay wilder and we’ll get to that in a second, where we ranked beyonce wilder um but anyways, i’m i’m pissed, i’m picking i’m picking usyk over over fury.
Just with this, with the skills alone.
Wbc boxing salute good morning.
Thank you.
Thank you for tuning in what are your comments about the the anthony joshua fight? What did you scored or if you didn’t score it? What’S your, what’s your educated opinion for those of you, if you didn’t, if you you know, i always tell people bring not just don’t just bring your opinion.
If you didn’t get a chance to score the fight at least give me your educated opinion, all right, don’t just say someone sucks.
Tell me the exact reason why you believe something paul cullen.
What up? What up my nephew, thomas carty, was in camp with aj in england? He’S a southpaw he couldn’t go to camp in saudi as he had a fight in belfast.
Two weeks ago, unfortunately, his pull his opponent pulled out of the fight um yeah man.
That happens.
Sometimes you know um, you know and that’s that’s.
The important part part of the fight thomas told me that aj defoe definitely improved from last time.
They sparred yeah yeah um.
Now, here’s the question, though, what part of him improved did his offense improve or or did his defense improve because, as i said before, we already, i already predicted it for his offense to to be improving with robert garcia and and even with that being said, i Don’T i don’t think he needed to change coaches to do what he did last night, he needed a new coach to get to get his defense better, which i don’t think it was so both he said.
Offense and defense was better.
Okay, okay, well um, okay, but you know, i guess you know sparring’s a little bit different than the real deal and when you’re, when you’re, fighting uh fighting alexander usik who’s, not just the best heavyweight but one of the best boxers in the whole sport of boxing And i said again, you know, i believe, he’s underrated um.
I believe, he’s underrated, because you know in in these days where social media is runs.
You wants everyone to get your name out there.
You know he doesn’t speak english and he’s not on social media.
A lot he doesn’t really so he doesn’t really do a lot of interviews so a lot.
A lot of people know who he is.
Unless you really pay attention to the sport, so he kind of flies and flies under the radar, but people that know know if you know you know shout out to pusha t’s album shout out.
If you know you know um alexander usyk, one of the best boxes in the whole support of boxing and um.
Now, with that being said, he’s he is 35 years old right, he’s 35 years old, so he’s at that age, where you’re he’s at the age, where your athleticism, you still have your brain you’ll, have your smarts on what to do and when to do it, but The the application of those things um are a little bit different because your your physical capabilities are a little bit different when you’re 35 years old, 35, 36 years old um.
So with that being said, at the beginning, i kind of complained saying that you know because he said you know if he doesn’t fight tyson fury, he’s done he’s just gon na retire yeah.
I i kind of wish he would fight the other guys.
The same thing i said about fury: how is fury tyson, fury, gon na i mean you can retire.
Whenever you want, i’m not saying you forcing guys to stay in there.
You can retire early.
If you want to you can’t call yourself, you know the the best.
Even the best of this generation, if you haven’t, fought the the top five guys at least the top three guys of this generation, and yes, he only fought one top guy of this generation, and i don’t call – i don’t count the uh klitschko as this generation.
Why? Because klitschko was 39 years old, with gray hair.
Okay, when tyson feels again another a rant for another day.
You know people people like to people like to pick apart: people’s resumes they’re, you know someone, that’s a boxer they that they don’t like they like to pick apart their resume and say: well, the this person wasn’t really good when they, when they fought each other, and This and that klitschko was 39 years old, with gray hair.
Okay, now 39 years old in real life is not old, but 39 years old.
In athlete, life is old, okay, which is why it’s amazing lebron is doing what he’s doing right now, at 37 years old.
Again, my bad just for going off topic um.
So what i was going at is uh, don’t forget wilder, yes, what i was saying, i’m not sure if you got what i said i said: while there is, is he tyson fury only fought one great heavyweight of this generation klitschko is not from this generation.
Quest.
Goes klitschko’s uh, um prime, was in the early 2000s when he fought, lewis and and chris byrd and and and and the great heavyweights who, whoever who tell me klitschko’s best wins klitschko’s best wins were in the early 2000s.
Now, what are people going to try to say to try to defend that they’re going to try to say he was on an 11-year win streak? Really, you know why they have to the mention 11 year win streak, because they can’t mention anybody that he fought because not disrespecting, but they were c-level competitors.
That’S why none of those fights were even on tv.
Just think about that klitschko that had the super heavyweight champion of the world and much respect to his career, i’m not i’m just using him as an example for for this tyson fury, you know people putting tyson fury on this pedestal, um anyways klitschko his prime was In the early 2000s at 39 years old, with a gray hair, i do not think you can consider him one of the top guys in from this generation.
Um deontay wilder was probably the second second or third best guy in this generation, so that and he had a trilogy with deontay wilder.
I i still think uh.
It would be a good fight with anthony joshua and tyson fury like i don’t.
I don’t think tyson fury just simply walks through just simply walks through anthony joshua.
I don’t think he just simply.
I definitely don’t think he’s walked through usyk.
I think music beats uh, um, tyson fury and i think anthony joshua versus tyson curry would be a competitive fight like i don’t understand how people just think tyson free would just walk through anthony joshua like there’s a reason why, like that? Yes, the two fights with with wilder ended in knockout.
They were still competitive, fights that last fight yeah, while they got knocked out siri almost got knocked out himself too twice.
That’S why people consider that one of the you know one of the you know it was in one of the best fights of um of uh of the year.
My man wcwb boxing um, says aj did improve, but i find he still lacks recognizing in-fight adjustments.
The corner can only do so much for you.
Yes, exactly yeah you’re, exactly right, um, those those those in-fight adjustments, the fighter, because you know the 60 seconds you have in between rounds.
You only get so much instructions you can do and so much thinking that the box can do in between the in-fight adjustments, who you know mayweather probably did the best at anyone, those that that stuff comes with experience, um experience and adjusting small things in training camp.
Like your defense, aj against anybody will always be competitive.
Yes, exactly man, that’s and that’s why i say you know, i don’t think people should be so quick.
Just to say tyson fury is the best boss of this generation, because the aj fight would be competitive.
The usyk fight will be competitive, yeah man, so hopefully he comes back.
Hopefully he comes back and hopefully we get those spikes, uh paul cullen.
Uh comes in here.
He suits aj.
More than usyk 50 50 fights fury suit, aj more than music.
I’M assuming means uh.
Um compares to aj like would be more competitive to aj more than aj to usyk 50 50 fights, i’m assuming that’s.
The word suits mean you know what i mean that reminds me too.
You know here on the talking fight youtube channel.
We got um listeners from around the world listeners from around the world.
What up trace um so can people in the chat just just uh.
Let me know where you’re from whether canada states, the uk africa japan, wherever we’re at just put in the chat where you’re from starting from from now on just so, we can see how expanding our audience is.
Um.
So wow i’ve been talking for over 40 minutes.
Again, i never expect to talk for this long uh.
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Thank you very much for tuning in.
Where is everybody else from? Where is everybody else from um yeah man uh? Who we got next week? I’M not sure we got, but you know i will be back um.
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