The A.J Interview 6pm 26/10

I think in one hand its a massive positive that he is trying to improve. He understands he lost fair and square to Usyk and is trying to improve.

But all this effort to improve is undone because he is insecure and deluded. The fact he is considering having more trainers, styles, instead of less is deluded. The fact he feels the need to ask everyones opinion, including someone on the ring walk shows insecurity of massive proportions.

 

Usyk will defeat him even more convincingly next time.
AJ simply was never that great, and he hasn't improved in years.

 

Who are this "team" he more or less blames for the Usyk defeat?

He massively contradicts himself when he says he's been studying old school ighters in history, and decided to improve his 'boxing IQ' and learn the craft of the "sweet science" ..... but then says he hasn't got time to study opponent or decide a gameplan, and relies on a "team" to feed him all the information, and describes himself as merely a 'sponge' and a 'product'.
He seems to be distancing himself from the results.

 

He contradicts himself so much he doesn't even know what he is saying.

 

The end of the interview was bizarre.
Embarrassing.
Citing all the American criminal bosses he'd been 'inspired by' as youth on 'the streets' of Watford, England.
32 year old man, he's talking like a deluded 13 year old boy.

 

It's sad that both our top heavyweights (Fury, as well as AJ) seem to want to be Yanks.

 

Talking about Watford like it's the Bronx.

 

People kept saying he has improved because he was able to circle Ruiz for 12 rounds. Anybody with his ability would be able to lose some weight and then circle a morbidly obese blob who's half a foot shorter than him. He has not improved, as far as I can see. He also looked worse against Pulev.

 

What he said about fighters telling him to avoid rematch after a loss was bang on. Its ridiculous to suggest an ex champion shouldn't try and regain there title. It would look far worse if AJ turned down the rematch.

The promo AJ did from 1:01:00 - 1:02:20 was good. Never seen him cut a promo before.

I can't see McCracken being in the corner for the rematch. I just don't see how what AJ is proposing can work and it undermines McCracken who I expect will say he wants out.

 

Shanny is the governor and runs that manor

#TeamShanny

 

Interestingly I've noticed Fury do that. One of the guys who appeared to be a 'fixer' for him in Miami (linking him up with Shaq etc) was unfollowed for a while then refollowed. I took a bit of an interest in that at the time because my gut feeling was there were some issues around May/June when he appeared to be partying in the US for several weeks.

 

I didn’t watch it all, just some highlights, but its a weird interview by a weird man - especially that monologue at the end talking about drug dealers etc.

I half agree with his motivation to be fair - he does need to sack off being a pure boxer because it’s not really going to work for him. What works for him is coming forward as a boxer puncher, and letting his hands go as he has very good power. He’s a strong man, but his game plan against Usyk was just stupid - whether its his fault or the corners fault one of them should have changed it after 8 rounds. AJs only chance to beat Usyk is to beat him up - he won’t outbox him. Ever.

On a slight curveball note though, I just find it weird with boxers of a certain level who know something isn't working but won’t change it. I’m all for listening to your coach but at some point when you know it isnt working just change it up. It happened not too long ago with Robbie Davies Jr - he was losing to that Mexican but was just getting pinged with right hands boxing out of a southpaw stance, when he’s traditionally orthodox. The few times he went Orthodox he looked a lot better - but Dominic Ingle in the corner kept bollocking him and telling him he had to box southpaw even though Robbie kept saying it wasn’t working. Robbie despite his protests kept boxing southpaw and lost the decision.

 

It was embarassing.

 

How did he revolutionise boxing mate?

 

I'm not sure why he wasn't asked about mccracken leaving him for the Olympics. Surely you don't want to be playing second fiddle when you have a big fight coming up and you are heavyweight champion. Joshua sounds like he knows the game plan was a shambles. The very best can adapt mid fight. Joshua was done by 9 rounds and never had enough to take out usyk late.