Anthony Joshua’s all time H2H ranking

AJ is a Glass Jawed fighter. He’s not H2H quality based on that alone. Of recent times probably the biggest H2H nightmare would be Vitali Klitschko for example. He’d beat AJ to a pulp.

 

David Tua?

 

Top 40 is being generous lets put it that way.

If you look at his resume, he is more top 50 to top 60 of all time H2H.

 

When has aj ever fought like this ? Please lmk

 

Top 30 initally sounds about right but admittedly I know that can be debated easily

 

Top 50, and I'm being generous.

 

AJ never separated himself from Wilder in a h2h sense. They are similar.

Joshua, in his prime, was stopped by a short notice Andy Ruiz. He was nearly stopped by a 41 year old Vlad who hadn't fought in two years. He was completely dismantled and almost stopped twice by Usyk.

He was outboxed, blown out, then splattered by Dubois at age 34, still very much in his prime.

He can't take a good shot. It scrambles him for about 20 minutes. His heart and grit is questionable after the Ruiz situation. His skills at the elite level are highly questionable after being completely outboxed by Dubois.

Essentially he has been defeated in every way possible, so ANY top fighter has a path to victory over him.

 

There is no such thing as a "Purely H2H ability" ranking.

 

Anywhere in the 40 - 50 bracket. There is no option for this in the voting

 

he hasn’t. That’s why I said physically capable.

AJ has always needed to learn when and how to use his size and strength better. I wanted him to against Jake Paul and he didn’t.

 

H2H he is probably a bit higher than his resume just due to how small some of the earlier heavyweights were.

Then again guys that were going 20, 30, 40+ rounds might do a lot better than many expect against the modern era guys like Joshua who look ****ed after 12.

The 26-29 year old version from his 3 year run as champion (Martin~Povetkin): somewhere between 30~40 seems reasonable.

 

Oh,,,he'd eat Joshua for breakfast, the guy got knocked out by jello boy Ruiz. He ain't near that level

 

It’s no different than the mythical pound 4 pound discussions on here. Either way a mentally weak Glass Jawed fighter isn’t going to register on a head to head basis.

 

the Dubois fight proved his heart I’d say. Climbed off the canvas time and time again.

he’s weird. He can get up from being knocked down and hurt. He’s pretty good about that. But it’s like his head never clears. Contrast that to Fury whose head seems to clear immediately.