He went close on Wilder, pushed him
Joshua might not as quick but he isn't the stiff robot some make him out to be either
he is the best offensive fighter in the division now imo
how joshua deals with a right hand is, he takes it on the glove. doesnt move his head. how you take a right hand on the glove is you have to turn with it, so your angle is not so squared up to it. thats because if you stay squared up to a right hand, it comes right down the middle on you. thats how wilder knocked out stiverne.
right hand right down the middle. you can see how squared up stiverne is there.
so what you do is you get less squared up and turn with it to take the angle down the middle away. so that will take the angle down the middle away but what the guy throwing the right hand can do is come around your glove. looks like this.
you can see how turning with it takes the angle for the right hand down the middle away. but it creates a way for the right hand to come around the glove.
shane used to do that to a lot of guys. he was real good at recognizing when you were trying to take away that right hand down the middle and then coming around your glove when you did. thats how he swelled up fernando vargas eye so bad coming around his glove with overhand rights. that fight was a clinic on how to do that. and thats how povetkin knocked out takam.
i think mark breland is doing a good job with wilder. you can see a lot of breland in wilder. one thing wilder can do is come down the middle with the right hand, which was how he got stiverne, or come around the glove, which he was doing to stiverne when he was trying to finish him. thats how he knocked out liakhovich. so i think he knows how to do that. i think joshua is going to have a problem squaring up because every time he does wilder is going to be thinking right hand down the middle, every time he is not squared up, wilder is going to look for the adjustment. how joshua deals with right hands, just trying to block it, means one way or the other he wont be getting away from wilders right hands.
