Brigade. Get ready to bow to his feet. Sick of it. Every single day “glass chin”, “he’s finished”, “no gas tank”, “Ruiz has his number”. So when he chins Ruiz I hope you all eat your humble pie and come on and apologise and accept you were wrong. Some of the criticisms are pathetic. You wouldn’t believe this is the same person who was unifying the division in his 19th fight. He’s chased champions and fought them, he’s rarely ever chose the easy route.
Eh - he has a CV full of puddings, small men, old men with his only decent victory being against OAP Wlad at 41 years of age after an absence of 18 months. The only World Title Holder he has dethroned in the ring was arguably the worst ever - Chuck Martin. He was puddened by Rice Pudding Ruiz Jnr - a pathetic defeat for someone with any hint of greatness. I will be shocked if Butterbean Jnr does him again. Fook me mate Tony Hayers must have hacked your account.
This could come back and bite you on the arse scissors do agree about the harsh criticism he gets though, it's one thing to dislike his personality and media trained persona but criticising what he achieved in the ring is embarrassing frankly.
But by same token if ruiz who isn’t a big puncher stop’s him again does that not prove that some of them statements are true? Also no one can argue and say he’s got a good gas tank that’s ridiculous.
Saying he has a glass jaw is not in any way a criticism, it is simply stating a purebred fact. Glass chins exist in boxing. And he has no gas tank, none. Again not particularly a criticism, most pumped up weightlifters have poor cardio.
I hope he does the business i'd much rather be watching Joshua v Wilder or Joshua v Fury next year than Andy 'Snickers' Ruiz (no disrespect to Andy there just better and bigger fights)
Wilder puts Joshua to sleep in an instant. At least Ruiz would be an interesting fight. Fury schools Joshua and Ruiz with ease. Regardless how their fights go
'He chased champions and fought them' is what the OP posted - makes it sound like he cleaned out the greatest heavyweight division ever seen before losing his last fight. Fury at least won the title away from home against a prime World Champion who dominated the division for years and got in there v Wilder again away from home. Contrast that to Eh day Hearn who bought AJs only World Title challenge against a reigning champion from Chuck Martin. On that basis, Fury has TWO fights on his CV better than Tony Dosh PPV who is simply a pudding basher. The little fat blob defeat is his legacy and will always make people laugh should anyone list his name up there with Heavyweight greats.
I think a partition of the anti-Joshua rhetoric stems from him being the pin up boy of Matchroom boxing, Eddie Hearn and all the hypocritical/greedy behaviour that Hearn encompasses. Then you add in AJ's faux-humble persona and the racism controversy that was completely swept under the rug.