A master piece show of boxing from AJ

brits always claim a ‘masterclass’ in boring fights. It’s like clockwork.

 

Good performance, you do what you gotta do.

AJ Haven't quite sussed the clinch optimally yet though.. lol

He was getting it all wrong but he's still learning on the game, so hats off to the lad for changing so much up in 6 months, that's what it's all about isn't it.
Good stuff from AJ in the grand scheme of things.
Gets my respect.

 

Ruiz was pathetic, fatter, plodding and threw hardly anything. He should have lost twenty pounds not gained.
He is calling for a rematch what is he going to do get even fatter.
Joshua should sit back down he ran so much Floyd was jealous.

 

AJ jabbed and circled for 12, with a few hooks thrown in and an occasional right. Ruiz wasn’t prepared for this in any way. Nothing impressive about it really.

Would still favor Fury and Wilder to beat him.

 

I'm not talking about the Tua fight. I'm talking about how AJ didn't have the cojones to take the belts back from oval-shaped Ruiz!

 

He did what I didn't think he could; box off the back foot, jab and hook when appropriate, and had a pep in his step for 12 rounds. I personally like that style (have to be since I'm a fan of Fury) so hats off to him. Equally disappointed in Ruiz not taking this seriously (as he clearly didn't) but that's a whole lot of "Not AJ's Problem."

 

Yes, Ruiz found some effectiveness from the clinching too, but the main initiator was Joshua and he did it precisely to help himself keep Ruiz at bay, without all that clinching Joshua would have been forced to deal with Ruiz in the inside much more, or make a much better job at keeping him far with his boxing skills, which would have led to even more issues than the few punches Ruiz landed in the clinch.

 

the taco destroyer was never going to win a jab contest, had a few moments when he might have dragged Joshua into a fight but it never went beyond that.

 

Ruiz is getting annihilated on social media. He let his fans down in a BIG WAY
AJ losing some of that muscle mass was key here for him in not gassing out. He's going to be much more difficult to beat now

 

Took zero chance. Nice win for a coward.

 

Far from a masterpiece, he looked clumsy and vulnerable against a fat slob

 

It was more than a masterclass. What we witnessed was shades of Ali. Sarcasm turned to 11.

 

Props to Joshua. He and his team came up with a strategy to defeat his opponent. It was working, and he stuck to the game plan.
Very well done, congrats AJ. To those posters who wanted Gatti-Ward III....get over it. It's not called "the Sweet Science" for nothing.

 

His other big flaw is still there, and might be made worse at a lighter weight.

 

what? How did Ruiz get that cut in round 1? Or how about Ruiz getting slapped around in the later rounds?