Should be a belter. Joyce will be looking for the KO to send a message to Usyk, Fury etc. The power in his punch, few can match. Paddy Power have a 2/1 special on him to get a KO in the first half of the fight.
Those lefts from Zhang are gunna keep causing him problems. Joyce looking a little dodgy this early on
Blimey. He's just been steamrollered there, from the first bell. Not sure anyone expected that. Apparently 1 judge had Joyce up on the card up to the stoppage! What fight were they watching!?!
Shambolic performance. China isn't known as a hotbed of Boxing talent. He's blown his big chance of getting a world title shot now.
I'd have liked to have thought Joyce would have improved later on in the rounds, but no chance of that happening with his eye. Really poor early performance - bet the bookies have made a killing again.
Zhang is very good in fairness to Joyce. He beat Hrgovic but didn’t get the decision who many were tipping for big things. Huge respect to Joyce for taking on tough opponents instead of waiting on his title shot.
I did have a wry smile when they announced one judge had him a round up (the other two only had Zhang one round up). I mean it’s not a precise science but look at both of their faces when the ref holds the fellas hand up and tell me Joyce was having success. Threw more punches, but it’s like watching a fight at x0.5 speed he’s so slow - and nothing particularly caught Zhang. He was a very deserved winner and I thought the Dr was probably wrong to let Joyce even start the sixth round. Howard Foster might have previous for premature stoppages but tonight wasn’t one. Right call, another heavy hit to that eye and it might never have opened again. Carl Frampton summed it up. It didn’t just look like Joyce had little experience against south paws, it looked like he’d never even seen one. He certainly didn’t see Zhang’s left hand most of the night.
