You were among the 111 BF24 posters who picked Wilder by (T)KO; [url]https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/deontay-leshun-wilder-vs-tyson-luke-fury-ii.640104/[/url] He picked up 47% of the vote. Just a small sampling from this forum's pages, including your own comments; So he was definitely fancied by around half of the people who had some interest in this fight. Some of them will have backed their pick at the sportsbook, [url]as I myself did.[/url] I should probably be more graceful here, but I'm compelled to remind you that you very recently told me I didn't know what I was watching.
Hey now! I may well be terrible, absolutely TERRIBLE at making predictions. But I am quick to admit when I'm (almost always) wrong. This content is protected
I'd say we've seen enough from the rematch to come to some decent conclusions. Regardless of how Ruiz chose to show up, Joshua needed to put in the work to execute that gameplan, which shows that he has the ability to adjust and come back from defeat. That's a huge question mark ticked, and bodes very well for his future career provided he's able to listen to the right people in his team and ditch the phoneys. Joshua has always showed flashes of technical brilliance (compared to Wilder, who's always looked like a flailing imbecile) so I suspect the change here is more of a mental eureka moment than any sudden transformation. Ruiz coming in so fat no doubt lowered his chances, but it ignores the months of preparation that Joshua and his team put in to coming up with a winning gameplan. That was a Joshua prepared for any version of Ruiz and I don't see anything in Ruiz's career (including his actual win over Joshua) that would convince me he'd have won on the night.
You deserve a lot of credit. Not only do you a lot about the sport, but about the psychology of these guys.
To a T, both of them. I'm claiming a fee, though, for having reminded you that you even made that Fury-Wilder II call.
I think Joshua winning the rematch is obviously better than him losing the first fight but I don't believe he had did anything amazing in the second fight. He had a very, very simple game plan which was to box cautiously and he stuck to it throughout the fight. Although I like AJ and wanted him to beat Ruiz, I don't think that his performance in the rematch in any way means that he is suddenly a much more well rounded fighter. That's something that can only be determined over time.
The real thing is it's HW boxing and the more times Fury fights big guys with big KO power, them more chance he has of getting caught and losing a fight. So I'm not sure why people think these match-ups are foregone conclusions even if Fury is clearly the more skilled fighter. Wlad and Povetkin were also more skilled than Joshua and got caught (yes they were past prime, but still). If Fury fought Wilder x2 or 3 and Joshua x2, without getting KO'd, it would be an amazing feat. Hard to see any other fighters running a gauntlet like that, even if they were better than Wilder/Joshua. If Wilder/Joshua didn't have the KO records they do, it might be a different story. But fighting those guys 4-5 times total is extremely risky.
Now isn't that typical. You must be seriously deluded or simply trolling to believe that garbage. Almost everyone was comfortably picking Wilder by brutal KO, myself included.
