A brawler is going to eat some shots, Joshua doesn't have the chin for it. His only chance is to become Wlad 2.0, but he doesn't have the skills for it.
He just doesn't love the sport enough to put in the hard-work needed. He was saying a couple of weeks ago that he doesn't know how long he will keep going if he can't make the big fights. The move to the US was all Hearn, Joshua just took it as a vacation. He said two days before the fight that he hadn't even watched a Ruiz fight. Does that strike you as someone who took the challenge seriously? He may well have spoken words of respect but the arrogance and actions were completely disrespectful to Ruiz. Glad he got beaten up.
It was him going wild in the 3rd round after the knockdown that got him knocked down in return. He needs to learn to be a good jabber.
Yikes! Sounds like Babality has some personal issues hes having a hard time facing and Ruiz seems to have brought out those emotions. It does explain his sensitive response lol! Poor snowflake
You mean the skills that helped him dominate AJ? Or the ones that had him beating Parker and getting robbed? Or the skills that have brought him to a 33-1 record and the new Heavy Weight champion of the world? Youre nothing but a hater you clown.
Yes, Ruiz is a beast. But those skills though?!. Lmao at these clowns marvelling at the HW bums of today. Beating Joshua is the barometer.
Nope you can stick a fork in him and Hearn for that matter in regards to serious boxing promotion. He's raped near enough his entire stable.
The common denominator with Lennox and Wlad were they were willing to humble themselves and start over from scratch. They got a new trainer and started over at ground zero. It takes a lot of humility for that to happen. Is Joshua willing to do this? I don’t know. Not saying he needs. New trainer but he needs to start over from his strategy and start at ground level and build himself up.
In think he beats Ruiz in the rematch. He will have to adopt a safety first approach like Wlad did in his later years. I don't think he dominates. He didnt progress the way I thought he would. Wilder is still 50/50 in a who lands first scenario . If he boxes like he did in his last 2 fights then Fury embarrasses him. The next wave of up and comers, we will have to wait and see.
Dominate? No. Those knockdowns took something out of him. I think from here on out he fights more tentative.
Here's the catch though, Kovalev didn't take Alvarez seriously, but was still winning the fight, after a few close rounds early, he was starting to dominate and got caught. Also Kovalev needed that wake up call he needed to blame himself, and due to Kovalev's mental toughness and self belief, he focused on what he did wrong, fix those flaws, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative, and he was good to go. AJ just got his ass systematically beat down... that was no lucky punch, Ruiz dominated him, and beat the fight out of him, he took his heart and soul from his body, that's a hell of a lot harder to mentally recover from than some freak KO.