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Besides the Gane fight though I were I think the knee injury was very significant Francis has been pretty mobile IMHO, he's an agile guy for his size and his gameplan is typically to walk down opponents, force them into exchanging with him and then exploit openings.That is a good point, but also he's not so mobile and doesn't have much offense, so you could just circle around him and jab and stay defensive. I think it's a pipe dream that people are going to see Joshua get in there and take him out. He's going to use all his defensive tricks and remain on the outside with low output so he doesn't get countered. Who knows, maybe Ngannou has an answer for that and can land? I thought Fury was going to be able to walk him down and beat him everywhere, but he felt something and never wanted to close distance too much with Ngannou.
AJ should be techically better than him and you'd expect him to land more BUT he has always struck me as a bit flakey which is I think Francis real bread and butter, pressuring people and exploiting mistakes.
Joshua does also hit pretty hard himself of course and maybe less dependant on bullying people than Fury is as well?