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This from that article could easily apply to Saturday:
Rather than being urged to increase the intensity of his work in the last rounds Joshua said the instructions from his corner were “more like: ‘Double jab, right, left hook.’ It wasn’t like: ‘Take the fight to this fucker. Listen, you’re losing the fight.’ No. A trainer needs to tap into that psychological aspect. Sometimes you need to tell your fighter that: ‘Yeah, we’re losing a world championship fight.’
Markyboy-
End of the road for Wilder?
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Also on this topic. The only fighter I can recall being told they were down late in the fight was Crawford against Porter.
My sense is corners don’t want to say this in front of judges…?
It also supposes the boxer has the ability to change this, guess the reality here is very few can.
GoatandTricycle
Totally agree with this, his Dad was ridiculous and the whole corner just seemed confused/confusing and messy. AJ had similar in his first fight with Usyk (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jun/29/anthony-joshua-let-down-by-his-corner-in-oleksandr-usyk-defeat) and the difference between then and the clarity he now has with Ben Davidson is absolutely marked.