After taking two rounds to clear his throat, Joe Joyce walked through Christian Hammer in round four, writes Elliot Worsell
LIKE a 19-stone, monosyllabic metaphor for life itself, heavyweight Joe Joyce offers opponents so much hope and opportunity only to then later wear them out, grind them down, and eventually leave them in a heap, their world view changed, their every dream crushed.
Tonight (July 2) at Wembley Arena, the ‘Juggernaut’ was at it again, the opponent this time Romania’s Christian Hammer, a man who has seen a thing or two in his 14-year professional career.
Unlikely is it, however, that Hammer, 27-10 (17), will have seen anything like Joe Joyce before. Nor, for that matter, is it likely he will have been involved in a fight in which for two rounds he felt so much positivity, yet, three minutes later, found himself crying out for an escape.
In the end, Hammer found this escape in the fourth round, when a body shot folded him in half at the 1:20 mark. But, before that, Hammer seemed to be enjoying all the hope and positivity most Joe Joyce opponents experience in the opening rounds. He was moving, and he was punching, and he was landing. In fact, through rounds one and two, it was Hammer, not Joyce, who was landing the more eye-catching shots, predominantly with his overhand right but also occasionally with his left hook, and it was Joyce, the one coming forward, who appeared to be in need of an adjustment or two.
So easy was it for Hammer to land on him, most of the time he didn’t even need to look at Joyce in order to find a home for his shots. He would, instead, just shut his eyes, grit his teeth, and bowl over either his right hand or left hand, safe in the knowledge, with Joyce trudging forward unaware, the punch would invariably find its target.
This sight, for fans of Joyce, and indeed Joyce himself, will have come as no surprise, nor will it have been a cause for panic. It is, after all, by now a theme of his fights. One could even go so far as to argue that we are at the stage now where Joyce probably likes the idea of opponents opening up on him, and getting brave the way Hammer did, if only because it leaves them all the more susceptible to expending their energy and being suffocated by the Londoner in the long run.
Certainly, if any kind of trap, it was one Hammer fell into, just as so many others before him have. It happened quickly, too, his unravelling, with his good start – rounds one and two – soon forgotten once Joyce upped the pace and made the ring feel ever so small in round three. At that point, Hammer’s ambition ebbed away; its departure written all over a face drain
After taking two rounds to clear his throat, Joe Joyce walked through Christian Hammer in round four, writes Elliot Worsell
LIKE a 19-stone, monosyllabic metaphor for life itself, heavyweight Joe Joyce offers opponents so much hope and opportunity only to then later wear them out, grind them down, and eventually leave them in a heap, their world view changed, their every dream crushed.
Tonight (July 2) at Wembley Arena, the ‘Juggernaut’ was at it again, the opponent this time Romania’s Christian Hammer, a man who has seen a thing or two in his 14-year professional career.
Unlikely is it, however, that Hammer, 27-10 (17), will have seen anything like Joe Joyce before. Nor, for that matter, is it likely he will have been involved in a fight in which for two rounds he felt so much positivity, yet, three minutes later, found himself crying out for an escape.
In the end, Hammer found this escape in the fourth round, when a body shot folded him in half at the 1:20 mark. But, before that, Hammer seemed to be enjoying all the hope and positivity most Joe Joyce opponents experience in the opening rounds. He was moving, and he was punching, and he was landing. In fact, through rounds one and two, it was Hammer, not Joyce, who was landing the more eye-catching shots, predominantly with his overhand right but also occasionally with his left hook, and it was Joyce, the one coming forward, who appeared to be in need of an adjustment or two.
So easy was it for Hammer to land on him, most of the time he didn’t even need to look at Joyce in order to find a home for his shots. He would, instead, just shut his eyes, grit his teeth, and bowl over either his right hand or left hand, safe in the knowledge, with Joyce trudging forward unaware, the punch would invariably find its target.
This sight, for fans of Joyce, and indeed Joyce himself, will have come as no surprise, nor will it have been a cause for panic. It is, after all, by now a theme of his fights. One could even go so far as to argue that we are at the stage now where Joyce probably likes the idea of opponents opening up on him, and getting brave the way Hammer did, if only because it leaves them all the more susceptible to expending their energy and being suffocated by the Londoner in the long run.
Certainly, if any kind of trap, it was one Hammer fell into, just as so many others before him have. It happened quickly, too, his unravelling, with his good start – rounds one and two – soon forgotten once Joyce upped the pace and made the ring feel ever so small in round three. At that point, Hammer’s ambition ebbed away; its departure written all over a face drained of colour and in two eyes robbed of hope. No longer did he move smoothly, no longer were his own punches anything other than desperate, and when dropped by a cuffing blow, Hammer appeared relieved to have secured some respite, even if pride still ensured he complained about the shot landing behind the head.
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