Oleksandr Usyk credits Anthony Joshua with a major “problem” in his game during his team's shock defeat. Daniel Dubois Not Saturday night.
Dubois successfully defended his IBF heavyweight title in front of 96,000 people. Wembley While Joshua demolished in five shots.
Joshua was knocked down in all but one of the five rounds before Dubois took the fight with a strong direct counterattack.
The 34-year-old, who has already suffered four defeats in his professional career and struggled to control Dubois' power, was forced to temporarily balance his opponent in the fifth round, moments before being hit by a counterattack.
Usyk, who has beaten Joshua twice, attributes the biggest mistake in his defeat to Dubois to his more unflappable moves.
Asked if he was shocked by Dubois' win over Joshua, Usyk said later in the fight: “I'm not shocked because he's a boxer.” Daniel Dubois was better here.
“Anthony has a problem because this position (bending back) is a perigoso position – you want to lie down, faça assim (move your feet), not assim (leaning in on yourself), isso é perigoso.”
Usyk's promoter, Alexander Krasiuk, also criticised Joshua for his botched defence against Dubois.
“The work was a problem, the mentality was a problem, everything was a problem,” Krasiuk said.
“I thought I was selling someone with AJ's face, but he was completely different on the inside.
“It didn't sound like what we expected, did you see it live?” It was right (for the bass) in its direction, then it was up.
“It was a fairytale for any boxer, not just Dubois, but for everyone.”
Elsewhere, three-time world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis also agreed that if Joshua doesn't defend or lose, he is vulnerable to Dubois' power.
“The problem with this soc… it's not your first thing,” Lewis told TNT Sports.
“If this is the first person… it can’t be like someone against the fighter Peregoso as he is remotely.” That was the tarboosh, that was the mistake he made.
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“AJ was like a little boxer up, and I thought, ‘Ah, he needs to leave his boxer up,’ because against a boxer who plays straight and hits people all the time, how do you open the door to keep his boxer upright?
“I know Daniel Dubois was looking for this singer, ‘There's this mystery for me, let me start in the future.’”
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