🥊Tyson Fury & Anthony Joshua get the Wins, plus my Saturday sparring

Summary of Tyso  Fury TKO7 Wach , Anthony Joshua KO2 Prenga, plus self-reflection on my boxing sparring, by Pro fighter D Hamaguchi🥋🥊👊48 kg
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Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury both did exactly what they were supposed to do, which was to win. They won their warm-up fights, and now they're set up for this all-British affair. Two heavyweights, Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua. Granted, this is coming a little late in the game. It would have been wonderful to see this fight, Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua, when they were both still undefeated and in their absolute prime. However, I think the matchup still has the potential to be a big draw in the UK, and of course, a big moneymaker for all promoters involved. Surely the WBC will come up, conjure up a new belt just for this fight. Which means, of course, they'll get 2% of both fighters' purses, and according to the WBC, any other income streams, revenue streams that are generated by the fight. But that's a whole nother story. To be honest, I don't really feel that either Fury's fight nor Anthony Joshua's fight deserves a lengthy technical breakdown because these neither of these were fight fights. These were warm-ups for both men, and these were business transactions for their respective opponents. To be honest, I'd heard of Wach or Marius before. I hadn't heard of Christian Prenga before, and no disrespect to either fighter, but I think they both knew that they were selected as the B-side for a reason, which was to come in and lose. However, whenever you're in that position, I mean we can't all be world champion contenders. If you're ever in that position, there's no way either man is gonna turn down the opportunity to fight basically a superstar boxer for probably the biggest payday they'll ever have in their boxing career. So I have to give respect to both Marius and to Christian for stepping in there. So briefly, I'll be honest, I did not watch the entire Fury versus Wach fight. I simply was not interested enough. I watched the highlights and it was pretty clear that Tyson Fury was doing his best impersonation of Tyson Fury, constantly switching, jabbing, moving around and picking away at uh the slower Marius. Now the interesting thing here was I felt like Marius was almost a mirror image of Tyson Fury, at least in terms of his physique, because he has rather long legs and I wouldn't say shorter torso, but he has longer legs for a heavyweight. Now he he does not have longer arms for a heavyweight, and he certainly doesn't have the reflexes and speed that Fury has. So effectively, this was, I felt, a seven-round paid sparring session for Tyson Fury. Christian Marius Walk, rather, his corner stopped the fight in the seventh. Bear in mind that Walk is 46 years old. So I'm guessing he probably never figured he'd be offer a fight at on the world stage at this point of his career. But, you know, good for him for getting himself in enough shape to get in there and do his best. And I and I hope he made a boatload of money off of that. I hope Marius is able to sail off in the sunset with that purse and you know make some wise investments to set himself and his family up. Now there's a little more to say about technically about the Joshua versus Pranga matchup. And the key thing here is as Delboy Derek Chazora said, Anthony Joshua gave people a stroke. Derek Chasura's so funny. He's he's got always got a great way of putting things. So his take on that fight was that Turkey Al-Sheikh's heart was beating rapidly, and that Eddie Hearn's hair turned gray during the first round of that matchup. Joshua, of course, coming in after a layoff. Well, he got dropped not once, but twice by Christian Prenga. Now, Prenga was able to do this. I I think his team came up with a good game plan to set that up. He was able to drop Joshua by getting in close and throwing that overhand right. And he also threw that right uppercut straight up the middle. Now, on a side note, I realized by looking at the ring outfits that Prenga is of Albanian descent. His whole whole team had the that Albanian eagle logo emblem on their on the back of their jackets, and one of his cornermen had the white traditional hat. So I was told by another Albanian boxer, Dardan, Zenunai, that the white cap represents an eagle, an eagle's eggshell. So when the baby eagle hatches, there's the top of that eggshell still on their head. And I guess it's part of Albanian tradition that they relate their origin story to eagles. So if you're of Albanian descent, maybe you can add a little more to this to share some of your cultural history. But that's my understanding. So on another side, side note, I thought it was interesting that Prenga had an effective, tight little short uppercut. And Dardanzen and I also had a great tight little straight up the middle short uppercut. He was very effective with that. And the the thing with that shot is it does set up a right hand quite nicely. Now, a lot of trainers I've worked, or no, I shouldn't say a lot of trainers, some trainers I've worked with can't stand it if you throw right uppercut, right hand. But that combination, right uppercut, right hand, left hook, that was taught to me by my first pro boxing trainer, Lennox Blackmore. So I would say that Prenga legitimately knocked down Joshua twice in that opening round. And they almost could have called the third knockdown because Joshua fell into the ropes. And the rule is if the ropes are what's holding the fighter up, then you have to count that as a knockdown. Because if the ropes weren't there, they would have touched the canvas. Regardless, that opening round was most definitely a 10-7 round for Prenga. So to his credit, Anthony Joshua being the world-class fighter that he is, what does he do? He gets it together between the rounds, comes back in the second round, and lines up Prenga for his jab, straight right hand, and gets Prenga out of there. Now that that was also a legit uh stoppage. Um Prenga did not fold under pressure and just take a knee or something. He was damaged and could not get up to beat the count. So the good news for Anthony Joshua is by is that by getting dropped twice in that first round, or three times, if you want to count them falling against the ropes, he did indeed shake off the rust and prove to himself that he can mentally regroup and come back to still score a KO. On the other hand, with Tyson Fury, I don't feel that Marius gave Tyson enough resistance to really see where Tyson's at and to test him. But maybe that's not what Team Fury was looking for. I think Tyson also got some of the rust off and gets to walk away with his confidence and ego boosted a little bit with that, with that stoppage victory. Not like Tyson Fury really needs an ego boost, right? But but there it is anyways. So who do you have in this potential all-brit matchup between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury? And more importantly, do you think the WBC is gonna conjure up a special belt just for these two gentlemen so they can collect more dinero on their end? Let us know how you think Joshua Fury will play out. And also tell us how much are you gonna pay for the pay-per-view? I look forward to reading your comments and your fan mail. Thank you. I forgot to do my post-sparring video yesterday. So this is very post-sparring. I did get in seven rounds, seven good rounds. I was not looking forward to Saturday morning sparring because I did my, what was it, upper body weight training Friday evening from between 6 and 8 p.m. So I woke up Saturday morning a little sore and a little bit drained and a little bit lightheaded. I also knew that I did not eat enough protein on Friday, so I made sure I ate some protein for breakfast on Saturday. Now the other concern was that I took off the previous Saturday because I was traveling, so it has been two weeks since my previous sparring session. So I did not want to go for broke or anything like that. I just wanted to make sure I got in at least six rounds, and I got in seven good rounds. We won't count the eighth round, which was more of a warm-up round. I got to work with five different sparring partners, so that was a great variety. They're both recreational boxers and amateur MMA fighters. The good thing about working with MMA fighters is that a lot of them either fight out of southpaw or they switch constantly. So that's good practice. My main objective for the session was to get my jab and overhand right going more frequently. And part way through the session, the coaching I received was to not just stand there and take inventory after I throw the overhand right, meaning don't just stand there and look and say, oh, did it land, did it not land? Immediately or simultaneously as I'm throwing the right hand, I have to be thinking about my defensive movement that's going to come right after. Whether that's a weave under to the right, which is probably one of the most common moves to make, or it's some type of, you know, just level change straight down, or even maybe a quick weave to the right, weave to the left, tight motion. So for the next three rounds, I did keep that in mind and make sure that every time I threw that overhand right, I followed up with a defensive movement. So that is absolutely one of the key mindset factors to have in place, whether whatever combat sport you're doing, whether it's boxing, kickboxing, MMA, judo wrestling, you need to have something you're going to work on for every whether you decide you're gonna work on a specific technique, a specific combination that you're gonna set a goal. Hey, I'm gonna throw this combination at least, you know, five times every round, or if you're ambitious, maybe ten times every round. That's quite a bit. Or you could choose a tactic to work on. For example, I'm gonna continually push my aspiring partner back with my jab. Kayla Harrison's coach and uh two-time bronze medal Olympian Jimmy Pedro Jr. once posted a video recounting his own experience when he was sent, he went to Japan to go through rigorous training over there for for judo. And he said he he called his dad, Jimmy Pedro Sr., who's also an Olympic team alternate for judo and a coach. So Jimmy told his dad, hey, you know, I got in, I get in 10 rounds of randori. That's what we call judo sparring. I got in 10 rounds of randori today at practice. And Jimmy said his dad told him, Well, you know what, that's really nice, but what did you work on? And that is such a good reminder because it's quite often that we just fall into the trap of keeping track of how many rounds we've done. Like I always have a goal for this the sparring session. I want to get an X number of rounds, and you know, so I'm keeping tally on that and keeping tabs, and if I hit that goal, I'm very proud of myself. But it's also key to have a specific training goal in mind as you're working your way through each and every round. Then you got to be honest with yourself and check in and say, hey, did I actually throw that combination that I said I was gonna throw? Or did I just get caught up in the emotion of the of the sparring and and start just throwing hands randomly or or whatever? But let me know how you keep track of your training goals as you are working through your workout in live time. I look forward to everybody's input. Thank you.