Anthony Joshua's demeanor before fight with Ruiz compared to vs Whyte

Exactly.
Whyte is a very dangerous fighter too who already held a win in the amateurs over Joshua.

Maybe Andy is that good but AJ was seriously off even out the back getting his hands wrapped. Look sleepy, vacant, anxious. Nothing about Ruiz at that point would've invoked those emotions beforehand.

Whatever the problem was it was there long before this bout began

 

Looks nervous before Whyte pacing around and turning his back to the camera like that to me.

You can read whatever you want into either.

Bottom line he looked fine in the fight vs. Ruiz til he got dropped. If he wins by TKO 3 and finishes the job nobody talking about this stuff.

 

They knew Joshua wasnt fit to step in that ring but they all wanted paying. They should all be ashamed of themselves.
No regard for their fighters well being at all. They rolled the dice and now they ****ed everything up.

 

looked perfectly fine to me the way he maneuvered to get close to Ruiz to nail that combination to put him down. That was quality.

 

I might be wrong but he doesn't look anxious at all, if anything he looked too relaxed..

 

Joshua looked high as f*ck.

The stars really aligned for Ruiz these past 6 weeks.

 

Lmfaooooooooooooo.

He got knocked out. Stop with the conspiracy theories. It had already been well established that he may have chin and durability issues. Andy exposed them for the world to see. Knockouts happen in HW boxing, Every single man that has been at one time or another considered the greatest of all time at HW has been stopped before. The end.

 

Looked fit to me.

Just to be clear, if a fighter is nervous in the locker room (and do we know he was?), they should cancel the event on the spot and send everybody home? Refund all the money, pay people back for their lodging and flights and whatnot, reimburse for lost wages for anyone who took off work.

And you are OK if that means half the time a big fight comes up and you’ve paid the PPV or subscription fee if it just doesn’t happen and they cancel after one guy is already in the ring!

 

Why can't people accept that there are things outside the ring that can significantly affect a fighter's performance? Compared to every other one of his fights prior to the bell he looked absolutely f****d...whether he was ill/having a panic attack etc.

How I see it though is AJ landed a few good shots, misjudged that Andy was there for the taking, got lazy with keeping the right hand up in a good position and then paid the price for it. He never really recovered from that first knockdown , his balance was off for the whole fight ... the terrible thing is though in the third KD AJ AGAIN thought he caught Ruiz with a good shot, and just as he went in Ruiz windmilled AJ's face off.

 

Noooo, you CANEL the fight and KEEP all the proceeds. Pretty sure that's what happens in boxing. Hey, if you recall tickets being refunded for a cancelled fight I'd love to read about it.

 

I dont beleive it was just a simple case of nerves. Nervousness could be a secondary symptom to another matter entirely. He never looked that way before. He has fought solid guys. Whyte, wlad, parker, povetkin and looked fine but against Andy Ruiz jr we are expected to beleive he was so scared he looked visibly different? I believe something more serious might he going on.

People can get brain damaged you know.

 

Exactly as I see it. Looked fine until he got shook. Have seen people looking at what he does with his mouth guard before the fight saying "ah yes, this is common for those having just suffered a panic attack".
Dude got clipped and took time to recover. When he did, other guy worked his body to slow him down and then hurt him again.

It's not like AJ has never been hurt or never lost a round in his life.