Ergo 99.9 per cent of the population given the accounts of everyone at the MSG arena, including professional athletes, trainers and promoters. Hence the upset. Everyone outside of the arena, including my workplace. The whole world really. The nature in which he lost was shocking, because he had genuinely been quite dominating up until now.
He got caught being careless and couldn't recover. All the rest was a formallity. I don't know what's so hard for some people to understand that. At the most what we can gain from this is that AJ isnt the most durable
Hes been in with people able and young already such as whyte and parker so I really dont see your point on this one.
Parker wasn't allowed to fight by the referee as anyone who knew what they were watching could easily see. Whyte at the time was a British level fighter who was one power punch away from winning it.
The difference here is, in both rounds that he went down, he had just landed tremendous shots of his own. Once he put his man down, the other he didn't ,but you could see the shock when return fire came after the shot he landed in the 7th. He decided he wasn't going to be able to hurt this guy, and did decided it was enough. and I don't blame him. He got up four times. No shame in protecting your life and livelihood when you finally realize this ain't your night.
Thats precisely my thoughts. He took the 4th 5th, and 6th rounds off, boxed from the outside. Maybe to save a second wind. But as soon as he launched a attack in the 7th, Ruiz just ate his punches like they were nothing, and landed a crazy 4 punch combination that put him down. He's got his work cut out with that brute.
The facts are that AJ combines huge size with decent boxing ability. He's beaten with a few exceptions that he didn't fight, the best that's around. His resume is still the best in the HW division. This HW era sucks the hind tit, but its no hype to say that he's one of the guys right at the top. Ruiz is a deceptively good fighter despite the way he looks, and I for one think the rematch will be pretty darn good.
'the few exceptions' says it all. He was exposed as a hype job I'm afraid. Is he a good boxer? No doubt, was he the best in his division and worthy of world champion? Certainly not.
One close defeat makes a career? Ruiz had the style to get AJ out of there for what ever reason. IF he takes on some big names and wins - hes better than nearly everyone thought. Be interesting to see how things play out now. One hit wonder ala Douglas or someone whos brings something different to the table
He quit. He wanted the ref to TKO him that's why he spat out his guard to save himself the ignomy of being splattered to the canvas 3 times by Ruiz and going out on his ass. Got to say though, he looks like a spent force and was blowing out of his ass after the first knock down in R3. All credit to Ruiz though he took him out ruthlessly and I think may have endeared himself to millions watching.