Anthony Joshua runs a gauntlet of UFC fighters, starting from Women's Strawweight: where does he stop

Probably 60/40 in Islam's favour.

However, Ilia's so short that AJ will have a tough time punching him. But Ilia might be too small to work his wrestling.
 
Barteh said:
In MMA? Probably starting at Makhachev and then every champ moving up would beat his ass.
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Playing devil's advocate.

If Joshua replicates the rush that Ngannou did against Rozenstruik, how are fighters like Islam going to survive that? We've seen what Ngannou's punching power does the UFC HEAVYWEIGHTS, Joshua is at a different level when it comes to punching power and athleticism. I'm not convinced he wouldn't just run through guys like Islam.
 
In before retards think that wmma and 125 guys can beat him, because he's just a boxer

One proper training camp and Aj kills the manlets
I don't even like Aj, but if he spent a couple years grappling and learning to kick a little, he would a dangerous fucker

Look what he did to your iron chinned monster while wearing "pillows"

He would murder some fucker with those 4oz gloves. He hits WAY harder than poatan and Ngannou.
 
BrockLesnarsTurtleBack said:
Playing devil's advocate.

If Joshua replicates the rush that Ngannou did against Rozenstruik, how are fighters like Islam going to survive that? We've seen what Ngannou's punching power does the UFC HEAVYWEIGHTS, Joshua is at a different level when it comes to punching power and athleticism. I'm not convinced he wouldn't just run through guys like Islam.
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He might have a puncher's chance, of course. But he'll most likely be on his back within throwing the first 2-3 punches. If one of those lands he might just get the KO.
 
Valentina lands the same kick that Ko's Jessica Eye and AJ goes down for the count.
 
Barteh said:
He might have a puncher's chance, of course. But he'll most likely be on his back within throwing the first 2-3 punches. If one of those lands he might just get the KO.
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That's fair. I reckon he'd be a pretty significant favourite if he got 6-12 months to work on his gameplan and TDD though.
 
He is gonna need to learn TDD and how to dodge leg kicks to have a realistic chance against anybody in WW and above.

Don't know if he breezes through the LW guys either, sometimes those gigantic guys struggle with smaller guys that are more fluid in their movement but I reckon if he gets some sort of punch on them, they'd be toast.
 
AJ is throwing hands at people as they're diving for his legs and every fight ends like Derrick Lewis vs Curtis Blaydes.

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When everyone has some type of training, size matters, imo.

If a smaller guy could get him down, they'd prob submit him, but he's prob athletic enough to train TDD defense a bit and avoid that.

Anyone he hits is doing to sleep, it'd all depend on getting the fight to the ground imo.
 
Boxers have roughly 50% more of their body as a target in MMA -- that is protected in Boxing. Legs, butt, hips, back, etc -- all can be hit, grabbed, and manipulated.

Boxers don't have to worry about kicks, knees, or elbows ( legally), as well as all of grappling to drain energy, ground and pound, and submissions.

Joshua is a specialist in a limited rule set of Boxing.

Would love to see him take a pay cut to actually fight professional MMA at the highest level -- but I doubt that will happen.

Even Ryan Hall has a chance in the cage.
 
BrockLesnarsTurtleBack said:
Playing devil's advocate.

If Joshua replicates the rush that Ngannou did against Rozenstruik, how are fighters like Islam going to survive that? We've seen what Ngannou's punching power does the UFC HEAVYWEIGHTS, Joshua is at a different level when it comes to punching power and athleticism. I'm not convinced he wouldn't just run through guys like Islam.
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Rushing in to close the distance against a high level grappler is throwing yourself into their world.

Strikers managing their striking distance is a huge key to keeping the fight standing. Otherwise you get the groan of the crowd as all that hope for banging action melts into two dudes laying on each other.

Rushing an opponent --sure, a Puncher's Chance could work,
 
ForeverYoung said:
I hate the guy but Islam strangles any boxer and probably 2-3 back to back to back that's how easy it would be.
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Ngannou was barely beaten by Stipe (the GOAT of HW MMA) before he bothered to train TDD, after which he ran through Stipe easily. But he didn't need any TDD to have a brutal knockout spree in the HW division, he just knocked out everyone in the first exchange. Why couldn't Joshua do that to way smaller fighters?
 
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