The A.J Interview 6pm 26/10

Been saying that for years while he was pounding the pudding world.

I honestly have never seen him as being much better than Puddings Chisora and Whyte - he got incredibly lucky that Fury had his meltdown or he would have been found out much earlier.

Cannot see how he ever beats an elite fighter as his power does not appear to bother non puddings and his heart/stamina both very weak.

 

But, he has the strongest "resume" in heavyweight boxing (some say by far).

 

As a neutral he does have a decent resume (by today’s eras standards)

He did come across as a bit of a tool and the backhanded compliments to Fury annoyed me. Fury’s resume is threadbare but he’s fought Wilder 3 times and dethroned Klitchko

 

@Mitch87 add this poster to your xmas card list.

That final sentence is going right up there with your post on top 4 heavyweights

 

Haha i'm not sure what you mean mate! I do think its fair to say Fury's resume isn't the deepest, but he is unbeaten and has fought the 2 best guys a combined 4 times and won all 4 which makes up for it

 

pretty sure kugan or any interviewer worth their salt would have asked that right at the start, obviously told it was off limits

 

What a joke.

 

Well it was clearly rehearsed. Kugan will do anything to get the views even if it compromises his integrity.

 

Is Kugan even an interviewer? IFL is more a platform for people to spout their **** pretty much unchallenged. Im not knocking the hustle at all he has built something impressive.

 

I don't think AJ believes what he says. I'm gonna butcher a Lincoln quote and say

"You can kid all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time..
But you sure as f*CK can't kid yourself"

He needs to simply accept and realise there's no shame in losing a boxing match, especially to some one as talented as Usyk.

Best thing he can do IMO is stop over complicating and philosophically theorising everything. Quit with all the excuses and get a bit of the old dog back in him and just go **** or bust in the rematch. Gas or no gas, just go for it.

If you lose again AJ, so what, there's no shame. Give us an exciting 3 rounds, lay it on the line and gamble sunbeam.

Roll your 6ft 6" 240lb dice.

 

Why does Joshua's wins over Martin, Breazeale, Takam, Molina get referred to as "resume deepening" and "top 10" wins which bolster his record, while Fury's wins against Cunningham, Chisora x 2 and Wallin are apparently used to illustrate how his record is shallow?

Fury and Joshua have beaten the same sorts of puddings, but the difference is Fury has 4 top level wins on away soil and has zero losses as opposed to two on Joshua's record (one of which is an absolute skidmark)

 

Well yes if you take it literally rather than what it was which was a promo hence afterwards him doing the Rock "can you smell".

He was just playing but for someone who doesn't do that the tone and delivery was good.

 

He's levels above Chisora and Whyte, come on mate. Compare his performances against Parker to Chisora's and Whyte's for example.

Don't be silly.

 

I haven't watched it. Seen a quick paragraph on FB about how he's sick of losing and he's pretty much going to roughhouse Usyk. I just thought fair play lad, get into him.

To me, Joshua lacks the courage to be genuine. Instead we see him dipping his toes in the water of 'who he really is' and it just comes across as very odd as he doesn't stick it through. He jumps between the person he really is and the role model he's been media trained to be. He is so conflicted. There must be a fear that his sponsors will pull away from him and he'll lose multi million pound deals.

 

This. One may think AJ is overrated but to say his no better than Whyte or Chisora is ridiculous.