While I clearly underestimated Ruiz, I think this is evidence of my first point, that this is a pathetic era of heavyweights.
I posted a emoji of me getting whacked on the head and said I underestimated Ruiz. I can be wrong about one thing and right about another in the same post. Stupid
All these silly “AJ just didn’t look right, something was off” threads and posts after he loses ... Yet THIS was the sentiment going into the fight. The guy who “didn’t look right” was the overstuffed burrito of a challenger, not the champion. And that was what everyone noticed ... until AJ lost ... then it’s down to “his dad was mad” (lol), “he was chewing on his mouthpiece” (the other fellow was chewing on a candy bar in the locker room haha), “he leaned against the ropes before the introductions,” “there were three national anthems and he was only prepared for two” (lololol), and my personal favorite, “he was nervous fighting outside the UK” — like the inside of a boxing ring is different from one side of an ocean to the other (or like they couldn’t have taken him out of country earlier in his career to climb this Mount Everest of a problem that should have been anticipated if he’s so fragile that he’s only effective within a small, specific geographic zone). Yet I can’t find one person who saw his ring walk who posted “OMG, look at him, he’s DOOMED” or one poster with a ticket stub from the bookie where they made a fortune rushing to bet against AJ after seeing him chomp on his mouthpiece. But now, after he lost, “it all makes sense” ... and nobody’s talking about the weight and physique and general lack of training discipline of a fat boy who trained about a month and nearly took AJ’s head off.
Well most boxing fans are pretty dumb. As I stated earlier and made a thread about. You still see people here saying 5'10 180 guys like Rocky Marciano could beat Anthony Joshua, Lennox Lewis, George Foreman, Wladimir Klitschko ect. Most people here have no clue to what they are talking about.