Well his aura of invincibility was far greater than AJ His papparazi following was greater than AJ He had a fight with Holyfield on the line He was fighting in Tokyo away from home He was the unified champ with all the belts He was also way younger than AJ at 23 He had way more pressure and an image to hold up which AJ cannot even imagine. Why aren't these same excuses sympathetically used for Tyson as they are being used for AJ?
FFS! Suffering from anxiety doesn’t mean you’re mentally brittle, if you don’t know Jack about it then don’t guess it’s insulting. You may be correct otherwise, I guess we’ll never get to know
Lower weight, fatigued, strict testing that caught miller (Joshua usually trains in Dubai, notorious for drug cheats to avoid testing), looked absolutely a shell of the guy that blasted pov, zero confidence, was getting bullied by tiny Ruiz, put down 4 times, looked confused and terrified. Just my opinion.
Na it was probably due to hammer test results/coke/booze/mental health. Depends on your stance on fury
I despise when people pretend a fighter is mentally weak when they've gotten off the deck to win before. The better man won yesterday, and a loss doesn't undo every win AJ's had. Not even a big AJ fan, but the overreaction is ridiculous. It's boxin'. Upsets happen. I don't think people are grasping that the more they tear down AJ, the more they tear down Ruiz. AJ has gotten hurt and dropped before and always came back to win. He didn't vs Ruiz. Let's give Ruiz the credit for that instead of revising history to say AJ cracks the second things don't go his way.
I am sure something will come out which makes it all seem logical. Guys sometimes lose. The other guy had fast hands and kept punching when Anthony was backing up and Anthony didn't grab or hold to stop the onslaught. He needs a little more experience.
I don't know what happened but I agree something was off. I'm not just saying this in hindsight but he looked off in the ring walk. He just looked disinterested, not even nervous or excited or calm, but actively detached.
I don’t get why everyone is jumping to these weird conclusions. Joshua was fine, AJ and Hearn have stayed that. He got a decent shot to one of the worst places and then was completely gone after that point, that’s all there is - it’s boxing.
Something was wrong with him before the fight. He looked sicked, or detached, or... He looked like a boy brought by his mom to a doctor...
Not normally one for this sort of thing. But something did seem off last night, of course its a champions job to overcome these things but something just didnt sit right. I do wonder what his dad was so irate with Eddie for at the end.
