Why don't you guys go ask poster moparfan who is part of Johnsons team and was there at the time :deal
I wasn't paying close enough attention to the initial post I thought you were referring to AJ, as far as Kingpin dropping Wlad so what, its sparring.
Michael Grant thinks AJ is the real deal too! Seriously, AJ seems like the goods, but lets pump the breaks a little.
Medzhidov wasn't hurt at all in the ams and he was taking bombs from AJ, but Usyk was busting up Medzhidov and hurting him at the WSB. AJ's power is overrated, put a top level HW in front of him and he won't be able to stop them and then we'll know the truth, Stiverne was put in front of Deontay and he passed the test by shutting him out, let's see AJ in front of a live body that fights back and then we'll talk as to whether or not he could even come close to beating Wlad.
AJ is a volume puncher, It's very obvious that he doesn't have one punch KO power and Wlad is too experienced to take those combos.