Anthony Joshua explains why his boxing style CHANGED #AntoineAllenInterviews

a break from the norm I'm going to ask both you and Dylan exactly the same questions as we approach that's good very much that many people have been waiting for yeah as always how are you all is well how are you I'm good thanks why is it important for you to win this fight like any fight it's important to win every fight leads on to something and it's not about just the stop office where you want to go in life right we all have these visions of where we want to be so it's where I want to get to and I need to get through in order to get to so Dylan is an obstacle you're older wiser and more successful than when you first thought what motivates you to continue my community my family myself in terms of you kind of shrivel up when you stop learning or even older people I see like Care Homes where they still engage them in learning processes like you kind of die when you give up if you're still engage in learning challenging yourself you're alive you're feeling you're feeling good so yeah that's what I like it's challenging myself day in and day out now it's hard as well when you're in Camp and you're looking and you're seeing people living life and it's like wait there's a whole nother world out there but what motivates me is the challenge every day that boxing presents itself to me so yeah like I said when I started boxing it weren't just about I want to be a good fight I Want To Be A Champion it's a lifestyle presents you with a half decent lifestyle training sleeping eating good keeping things simple it's quite a good discipline lifestyle to be fair am I looking at a future world champion or is there another way you want to add another paragraph or chapter to your own legacy yeah you're looking at another world champion seven years is a long time we already know what happened in the last fight forget all that if you were to fight that version of yourself how would it go yeah I'll be thinking this little aggressive then I I understand the elements of defense and um I understand like I know that that pace can't you can't sustain that pace naive it's a 12 round fight it's not a Sprint it's a marathon this is 12 round boxing you know you systematically break down an opponent you systematically break them down through there they can't handle your output like their their heart rate's just spiraling out of control you break their soul you break their ribs you break their face sooner or later they'll give up where they get knocked out so with the old AJ is what I'm saying is that he would probably start boom Red Zone and I just be smart enough to pick him apart I'll do like Klitschko could have done it to me but he just weren't aggressive enough but like do you know what I'm trying to say it's like that old God versus the new God or the new Guard versus the old God Klitschko you know for his experience it was a good fight explosive but like there was period in that fight where like it was my soul I was fighting like my spirit that was fighting but um that's what I would have done to the old age it made a fight of his Spirit but I'm I'm too smart now Boston remember is about fundamentals is if a kid comes in the gym and has better fundamentals than someone that can bench press more run further Sprint harder who will win the kid with better fundamentals or the kid that can run bench press eat more calories the kids were more fundamentals back then I was I was that's what they call me CrossFit Champion they call me bodybuilders since I've started boxing in it but I've had a fundamentals to the structure now as well and um it will all come to we'll all come together at the right time I believe in 100 when's the right time it's happening we're in the process I'm in Texas we're grinding so yeah the time is now how have you changed as a boxer since 2015. smart in a in a heavyweight boxing let's say let's say you've got a well and there's only so many times you can go to it only so only so many times Jack can go up the hill the thing is when you're strong big it's easy to overlook the fundamentals right it's kind of like the what's the what's the story of the the rabbit and the hair or something like that yeah there's there's ways around ways around winning and I realize that there's only only so many times the fighter can go to the world before there's nothing left a fighter only has x amount of hard fights in him before his reactions slowed down his uh durability slows down taking punishment to fix your endurance so I started realizing there's two different things there's defining fights and there's defining performances do you know the difference between the two a defining fight is one where I knock you down you knock me down I knock you down you knock me down I slash your eye you cut my lip you're bleeding I'm bleeding and after 12 rounds we've both got our hands in the air but it takes us four months to recover the final fight is where I step in the ring you train your ass off to beat me studied me I nullify every one of your attacks I control you I give you a black eye I walk out no problem I'm in the bar of my friends and family on a Sunday morning that's the final performance and that's what's what I realized is the more I can have the finer performances will preserve my body for the time I need a defining fight 100 is going to be defined in finance but you have to understand the trajectory of when to take those risks and that's what happens as you get wiser you learn the fundamentals and I can dispatch of opponents much easier and smarter is there anything wrong with that in my opinion no just means that you're smarter in my opinion but from a general perspective it looks like you're not as it was the word tenacious aggressive as one used to be but what's to say your defense hasn't got better your foot works better or your controls are better now that's what I mean so that's how I've developed and I've become more experienced as a fighter you've both changed trainers what are you doing the most about your new setup um set up or trainer both set up Back to Basics I had this philosophy where I was like man it was pretty basic at the start but I had to rely on all of that so I started seeing people doing slipping with noodles sticks counter punching 15 punch combination I'm like yeah I need some of that so I kind of structured like Alex Ferguson versus uh throwing Specialists and a freakick specialist where someone could help with my movement so I'm looking at my defense someone could help me with my striking so I put a formulated team which actually was worst thing happened in my career so like when I was looking around I obviously needed to improve but it wasn't from all these things around me it was just I was looking for it through one person and with Derek I found it so that formulates the environment and the coach it's just simple boxing is simple and when you're getting the right information from the right person you can understand it at a lot quicker rate right I could tell you something but if you're not ready to receive the information you just won't get it sometimes it feels like wasting your time but sometimes like your parents when they're trying to tell their kids something and they just don't want to listen but the cool kid from the area can speak to them in a same message but just who they receive it from from Derek I received the message loud and clear outside of the Ring how do you want to be remembered this is the thing I don't really have an interest in what someone's opinion is of me outside of the Ring because I never met a hater so whatever someone thinks of me why I say that is because people who approach you in love people that Envy you stand on the sideline so how people remember me is irrelevant it's just about how you approach me that's what's important I can't tell who what people think of me I don't really care but it's just how when you come into my space that's what I care about so as long as you respect me I'm not how you remember me as long as you respect me that's what's important when you're an old man you're retired and you're sitting down reminiscing or re-watching fights with your son how do you want him to feel when he looks at his father my dad was smart that was smart he went dumb but that was real smart because my son's gonna be educated so he'll know he'll understand the intelligence and the minds I had while I was competing as a fighter where a lot of these dimwits in the industry don't and you entered boxing as a teenager yes it changed your life no how is boxing impact your life now yeah made me healthier would you say the core fundamentals of boxing has impacted you the personality or mental or just you as a man okay when you say changed my life I felt like you was meaning such as like let's say let's say fame or okay let's say yeah AJ without boxing what's he doing right now Hey Joe about boxing God knows maybe Brickley would you have been happy with that life yeah this boxing is not there's not something that is glamorous you know I think people have a real misunderstanding of what boxing really is like Camp trenches like you talk about trenches camp like for aspiring partners that you like four times three times a week like hitting that heavy bag like and your coaches are just sitting there looking at you like were you complaining about hit that like it is not a game not a game at all so yeah it's tough very tough I would much rather probably be chilling at home with my family working living yeah but it's the challenge of boxing I don't know what it is it draws me back every day with a new passion every day with a new passion to learn like challenge myself because that Jordan is throughout every obstacle boxing has presented like I've nearly overcome may not have been straight away but at some stage I've overcome the challenge so yeah I love I love it for that reason whereas I could have definitely had an easier path one not easier everyone's got their challenges but but I think Sports is like five margins right such fine margins and if you want to win you pay attention to every detail so yeah definitely like boxing's it's not it's not for the faint heart you said you've overcome every challenge pretty much that you've like personally personally so what challenges do you have left like personally how good can my jab get how good can my defense get how many rounds can I do in the sparring environment how much rest do I need can I do 45 minutes on the heavy bag Non-Stop one minute you work on your output and you realize I need to work on my power punches then you realize I need to work on my combinations then you realize I need to kind of throw my right it's just continuous it's Evolution isn't it so your challenge uh being a better version of yourself rather than another Boxer in the room yeah every day that's what that's what wakes me up well not always about well that's what drives me every day I got my notes every down you know people as I say when I I took notes people I took notes she was reading his notes before the user fight what else am I going to be doing watching Netflix I'm about to go and fight I'm reading my war strategy This Is War which you know what I'm trying to say so yeah I'm serious like it drives me every day um sometimes as you said I do wind up man you see it now right on social media there's a life outside a box and I see the man them turning ah me I'm a party like what I'm in the middle dancing and I'm sitting in that stinky bed hot midday thinking night but then it's that drive like yeah I can actually get better at this though with boxing it's quite sick it's quite sick it's a good challenge thank you for watching your time brother appreciate it

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Length: 13min 14sec (794 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 15 2023