AJ is finished.

I am convinced that AJ will lose the rematch, Usyk is all wrong for him and AJ is no longer as strong as he used to be...

 

Exactly. AJ could still be a very good heavyweight champion while having severe difficulty with Usyk's experience, skill, and style of fighting.

 

Your body language comment is spot on, geez Joshua acted like he was the guy moving up from cruiserweight boxing and moving, allowing Usyk to control the ring and pace . I thought Roy Jones had a good comment when he said in the first round Joshua should have made a statement to the smaller man and been aggressive, instead it was Usyk who nailed Joshua with straight lefts and Joshua just accepted it and moved away. Mentally Joshua wants to box because he's very wary of a fight breaking out, even with a smaller man.

 

Threads like this are commonplace now for younger boxing fans. A lot of you do not realize that losing is just part if the process when you fight the best fighters out there. Ali, Tyson, Louis, Lewis. They all lost and they all came back. AJ will do the same. Mayweather stayed undefeated because he did not fight all the best fighters in their primes. Marciano stayed undefeated because he got out before having to fight Liston, Patterson and Ali. Fury is undefeated because he has only fought 3 guys in the current top 50. AJ regularly fights top ten guys and there was bound to be a couple guys that he slipped up on. After the Ruiz fight, a lot of you were on here claiming that he shouldn't rematch Ruiz because he will just lose again. Now you are all saying he should retire after this fight? Perfect records are typically a mirage. When Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and Duran fought each other. They all lost and won. But more importantly, we as boxing fans won.

 

Losing is not the end of a career. Y'all put far too much emphasis on losing and it's ridiculous. Now if you lose like 9 times in a row by knockout like say an..........Owen Beck for example, yea I'd say it's the end of a career. Joshua has wins over 3 people currently in the top 10. Are their careers over too?

SMH

 

Joshua has lost himself a bit that’s true, he’s not sure who he is as a boxer anymore and while it’s admirable for him to add some boxing skills I think he needs to learn how to mix them with his other abilities.

He’s demonstrated that he can box technically with the best in the world in Usyk, he did fight well even though he was outboxed and lost the fight.

If he can learn to add the sort of brutal attacking style he showed in his first 20 fights with the ability to box from the outside he could still be a dominant Heavyweight Champion for years to come. He also needs to learn who to box technically and who to fight toe to toe, he needs employ the correct mix of style and tactics to beat his opponent.

All of this is of course predicated on the notion that he still has the desire to engage in an exchange or go toe to toe when required!

 

We'll see how he finishes his career.

He is, after all, a composed a ferocious finisher.

 

AJ will be passed around like a cheap wh*re if he rematches Usyk, then fights Wilder, Hrgovic, Joyce, Makhmudov etc. Slavemaster Hearn doesn't care.

Ruiz took his soul, "broke him in" as Fury would say. The Usyk loss is even worse psychologically for a multitude of reasons.

 

Just because Povetkin is not a bum to you doesn't mean he is not a bum to me. As far as I am concerned he is a bum. The only dumb argument is you trying to argue with me about my opinion.

 

I agree with all that, there isn't a decent heavyweight out there and there hasn't been one for years.

 

Andy Ruiz stole his heart, and gobbled it up.

 

Too many writing the big man off here

AJ has turned things around before

It is not impossible he could do so again.....

 

AJ is not Finnish, he has Nigerian heritage.

 

One thing I've learned from this forum is that most of you obviously have never tried anything in your life or rebounded from failure like someone with heart. Or else these threads would be inexplicable.