If AJ fights safety-first and wins a stinker ...

That's the sort of athleticism which can't be taught. I watched lots of Andy's training videos, in some of which he was working on footspeed and lateral movement, and was extremely impressed by how nimble he is.

 

After he knocked Ruiz Jnr down he didn't go for the kill, it could easily happen again and if it does, and he goes for the kill, AJ wins.

The Mexican is decent, very good at certain things, but he's beatable and AJ has the tools to do it, it's more of a case of how he's been affected by everything. The first fight was weird, no question, take nothing away from Ruiz Jnr but that wasn't the AJ that we've seen in past fights, he'd have gone in for the kill.

Whatever happens people are now intrigued and this will sell massively.

 

This is why Andy will break Joshua again: if Joshua quit once before against the same guy, the same doubts will be there and so will the high probability of him displaying all those same traits (looking like he doesn't want to be there during the ring walk and the introductions; taking a walk around the ring and holding onto the ropes after getting dropped; taking his time and looking for time outs / breathers after getting dropped; not looking at, acknowledging or responding to the referee after the final knockdown) which leads to there being a high probability of Joshua quitting again when the going gets tough.

 

I tend to agree with others that point to the style issue, Ruiz is beatable but can Joshua beat him is the question? I have my doubts. I saw Joshua in exchanges and getting the worse of it nearly every time, I saw Joshua landing his hay makers but Ruiz retaliating.

Even though AJ was clearly not as fired up as he was against Wlad, he was facing technical issues he will face again. he was getting hit with fast combinations he had no answer for, the speed bothered him. Its easy to get carried away but the more I watch that fight, the more trouble I see for AJ unless his resistance and stamina suddenly improve tenfold. We seen the stamina issues and him getting hurt before, its not new.

I also agree with a few opinions on here regarding AJ being able to keep this guy at bay for a 12 round disciplined fight, not sure he can do that either. I'd like to see AJ prove the doubters wrong, its nice to see a successful comeback but I cant see how he is turning this around personally. Its real life, not part of his fairy tale image.

 

Maybe so but I believe AJ has the ability to render Ruiz flat in his back, I agree Joshua doesn't outbox Ruiz but he is more than capable of knocking him out early and this is what Joshua should do just turn into a war and hope he connects first, Ruiz is very beatable with the attributes Joshua possesses if Joshua is fully switched on which he clearly wasn't the first fight he can easily knock out ruiz

 

I’m not convinced by the Ruiz is very beatable talk. I think he deserves more respect than that. He smashed many people’s number 1 all over the ring, he outboxed him, out-thought him, demonstrated faster feet, faster hands, better timing, showed far more durability and will to win. This is a lad who instead of retreating when he ate a big shot, instead threw 3,4,5 shots of his own.

Try to bear in mind that Ruiz will be bringing all these qualities back to the table in the rematch, and to top it off, he’ll be turning up feeling like a champion and knowing that he can beat Joshua and has nothing to fear.
All the pressure is on AJ.

 

Haye and Takam have said Joshua doesn't do any sparring. Instead he does technical drills with sparring partners.

He needs to do some better training cos the Bicep-curls and technical drills aren't working.

 

I agree with this. Especially with his new found confidence and he looks very comfy with AJ style. I favour Ruiz strongly in the rematch. He will know exactly what to expect, AJ is hardly some puzzle to figure out. He is straight up and down and fights the way he was taught as an AM England fighter. Ruiz will read him like a book.

 

If you are AJ, every time you open up and you get clobbered with combos?

 

What does he do? Lol

 

I've seen a lot of Ruiz fights as I followed him previous to the Parker fight, and I thought he'd give AJ a few things to think about before going down around round 10.

Ruiz is a lot better than many thought but he IS highly beatable.

That performance vs Joshua wasn't even a great ruiz performance he just did what he does in every fight, with a touch more grit than usual. There weren't no surprises in that fight? What was Mcracken thinking? It weren't like ruiz came out dancing like Ali, he did what he does in every single fight.

Joshua was just proper, proper ****, he looked dimitrenko level, not top table.

Rematch will be interesting, ruiz remains a good top 10 level contender, was it an off night for AJ we will see.

 

What you do is you fight like a 250lb man mountain fights a little fat man, you bully the **** out of him, grab him, pull his head down, headlock him, stick the elbow in, smother him in a corner and pull his head down into an uppercut.

If he comes in and tries dancing like a fairy again I'll turn the channel over.

 

How can that be true hasn't he been ko'd like 76 times in sparring?

 

Sounds good but once Ruiz is closing the distance and waiting to unload his combos once AJ throws lol different story lol AJ is in trouble in this one.

 

Then you are Pay not per view!!!