AJ: "I got hit with lucky punches from Ruiz"

With the stars aligning perfectly, the wind blowing in the right direction, wearing his lucky drawers and with Cus and Rooney in his corner, Tyson could have beaten any heavyweight who existed.

 

come on, he was far better than Botha.

 

On the night he fought Botha he wasn't. If Botha had remained disciplined and stopped clowning around it might well have been an L on Tyson's record that night.

 

You can get hit with a lucky punch. You cannot get hit with multiple lucky punches in the same fight. If this is what Joshua genuinely thinks he wont be correcting the reasons he lost the first fight and hell lose the second fight.

 

Using this logic, you could apply the "lucky shot" argument to when he clean hit Wlad with the uppercut in the 11th. Wlad was comfortably boxing him around the ring from the point AJ went down until AJ hit him with that uppercut which completely discombobulated him.

 

with the drivel coming out of the top HW mouths these days, you really do begin to warm to Andy Ruiz Jr, who only puts Snickers in his mouth.

 

Aj delusional and so are his fans.

 

I was going to comment but I think this pretty much says all that needs to be said.

 

Lewis is one of those fighters who I think makes a poor pundit and a worse coach. I'd throw Calzaghe and Hamed in the same bracket. Why? Because their own physical gifts and mentality were autistically unlike any else. It's tough, when you're Calzaghe (say) to say "well, just hit him 1000 times in 6 seconds with the palm of your hand".... because that won't work for anyone else cos they couldn't do it.

It's why I think exceptional fighters make for bad pundits.

 

I slightly disagree with that in regards to Lewis
During the Pac Thurman fight he was the only one in my opinion that was talking the right tactics for Keith
Goosen for example was saying what Keith was doing was spot on in going foward.. In a straight line
Thats madness against Pac yet only lewis acknowledged it

Dont get me wrong, he aint no Mallinaggi lol

 

You'd have to be pretty defensively inept to get hit with 18 lucky punches

 

Ruiz had been looking for that counter left hook anyways. Nothing lucky about it, AJ loaded up the same combo a few times in a row and got timed like a *****

ANDY REECE DA GAWD

 

I don't know why people get so wound up by comments like these. Most times fighters say it to convince themselves more than anyone else. Even so, I doubt Joshua believes that 100%. It's like a grey borderland between, yes, I effed up and got hit, and, the punch was lucky and if I prepare well it won't happen again. The alternative is to admit defeat, and top level competitors aren't wired like that.

 

He was always falsely humble, I've known him to be a co.cky ***** in the amateurs, glad that pathetic facade has dropped now.