Joe Joyce insists he's ready for Oleksandr Usyk eight years on from "naive" defeat

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Joe Joyce winces when he watches the video back. Head static as he takes shot after shot from Oleksandr Usyk during his defeat to the Ukrainian superstar.

That was eight years ago in the World Series of Boxing at York Hall when Usyk won all five rounds of their catchweight contest.

Joyce can’t believe how naive he was when he looks back at the video nasty and insists he would be a different proposition for Usyk if their clash for the interim WBO heavyweight title comes off. “Looking back, I can see all my mistakes, it’s terrible looking back at it,” he said. “He was just slipping my jab and I just took all his shots. “I could have used the double jab.