The question - Is Anthony Joshua Overrated ?

Yeah I saw that too. I actually felt sorry for AJ at that time.

 

Agreed, but that was the question posed, so I gave my honest opinion. And also the Joshua acolytes on here have been happy to rate him highly mid-career. Cuts both ways...

 

That is true. But now people are making Ruiz sound like a prime Mike Tyson.

 

Well hype can be caught like a cold....

 

I will not be sold on Ruiz until he wins a rematch and has a few title defenses.

 

I take it that, despite Ruiz being the champ, he's not in your HW top three?

 

With all those flaws he was still exciting to watch as an offensive fighter and has done well. I hope his confidence isn't affected that much to the Audley Harrison/David Price level and that he still performs in entertaining scraps with Dillian Whyte and whoever else comes up on the HW scene, maybe Dubois/Gorman/Joyce.

 

Utterly humiliating defeat.

A fat tub o lard Mexican that’s a whole head shorter.....and he destroys the man.

Absolutely shocking .

Glad this spoils another “marinating megafight”. What’s the worth of Wilder v. Joshua today??

Can’t imagine the English stay with Joshua. American audiences will clearly perceive this as a clown show now. A public execution more than a must see mega fight.

Wilder would likely get his coveted “body”.

I mean , these two standing together in that ring last night was comical .

 

I think he is a bit overrated by casuals and his fans but not to a degree where I would call him a fraud.

Joshua was terrible against Ruiz, he really was atrocious, it was by far the worst performance i have ever seen from him.

Imo he clearly overlooked Ruiz jr. and wasn‘t well prepared for that fight.

I think he will win the rematch but still has problems with Ruiz‘s fast hands and counterpunching, his chin will also be a major problem again.

Joshua imo is not ready to fight a guy like Wilder, neither mentally nor physically.

 

The problem is the division is not as good as everyone thinks . These 3 are not Tyson Holyfield Lewis or Ali Frazier foreman

 

Depends on how you rated him in the first place, personally, all though very different from each other, I rate Fury, Joshua and Wilder about the same, I don't really know how it goes if they fight each other. Joshua is still a very good fighter. Plenty of past world champion boxers had their off days and still bounced back.

 

You forgot to say #NoHomo.
You did...forget it...didn’t you?

 

Just makes me yearn for the 90s again. Someone is going to catch Wilder too and then we’re going to be left with just nothing of a division. No offense to Fury but bleh his fights are awful to watch

 

Well, my posts are on this forum when I was frequently on here. I have always said AJ 's boxing skill was overrated, he lost the first 5 rounds to pedvetkin and here again he was losing rounds and getting knocked down and TKO'd by a short armed but pretty crisp counter puncher. He didn't know how to land on Ruiz without exposing himself. That's prospect type **** but he's supposed to be this elite boxer. Watching the pedvetkin fight, it occurred to me his head movement was a fatal flaw, and stamina issues persist. Doesn't respond well to being hurt. I was always confident Wilder would KO him. The actual fight between two has lost luster over time before this Ruiz fight because as time went on, it became obvious Wilder would knock him out. Now I know he'd knock him out in such a fashion that it would look like AJ doesn't even belong in the same ring as Wilder.

Funny how projection works, fanboys kept saying Wilder is the one with glass chin and is a hype job but lo and behold, AJ is the one flopping around looking like Bruno 2.0 out there. **** the fanboys though, I didn't want him to go out like that. Don't diss the heavyweight division just because Wilder is going to reign over it. That's weak but I know that was a fallback position some of you would take years ago.