Did the Takam/AJ fight debunk the idea that....

No and for me personally, I never thought that to begin with.

Right now I would favor the cruiserweights over many of the heavyweights.

 

Joshua is 6'6 and 254 pounds.
How is he debunking an idea of super-heavyweight dominance ??

 

At a listed 6'1.5" and scaling 235.5lbs for the Joshua fight,[he has been appreciably heavier previously] Takam is hardly cast in the Dempsey ,Louis,Marciano mould.

 

I don't think that idea required debunking, as the evidence in its favor was already tissue thin. One of the most common and persistent cognitive biases humans display is to wildly over-extrapolate from recent short term trends. Tellingly, much more persistent trends are much less likely to be overinterpreted to this degree if they occurred in the distant past, even if they are just as easily confirmed.

Recency bias is at least as powerful as nostalgia bias.

 

AJ is a work in progress nothing less,nothing more.If Wilder finds his chin with a right hand and sparks him half this forum will be saying ,"I always knew he was an accident waiting to happen,""He never impressed me"etc.

Human nature and public opinion is so fickle ,a week ago Kevin Spacey was of the elite as an actor , and stage director, he could not have prompted more accolades and plaudits.
Today he is a social pariah,with people coming out of the woodwork and queuing up to get their blades into him.His career is in ruins.

It reminds me of that scene in" Call Of The Wild "when one of the sled dogs loses a fight with a rival,and the pack instantly turn on him.

 

I agree entirely about Joshua, and definitely won't be saying I told you so because I haven't told anyone so.

Two things about the Kevin Spacey incident amaze me:

1) People seriously didn't know Kevin Spacey was gay?

2) Why is he not being given some credit for being honest about a thirty year old incident that could not possibly have been proven?

 

Name me one guy that Dempsey fought who was 245lb, fought the best SHWs of his day, knows how to jab, and has fiber twitch muscles.

Name me one.

 

Joshua's perceived ability has only ever gone down among those who overrated him unrealistically.
For me, the Klitschko and Takam fights are his finest work by far.
Joshua's doing fine.

 

I hear much less about that assumption since that body shot + uppercut combo.
2016 everyone was riding highest on Canelo, Usyk and AJ.
The tides are shifting towards Golovkin, Gassiev, and Wilder.

 

Are we just looking at numbers on a stat sheet though?
Look at the guy.
He can jump, spin, swing his arms, and they'll still leave on a stretcher.

His power is insane
And with it, he can control fights like nobody else.

He was signed up to fight Povetkin and Ortiz, and those fell through.
I'd rather consider those as automatic wins, than to insinuate he's avoiding better talent.