NO STYLES MAKE FIGHTS Ruiz has these advantages: skills IQ CHIN SPEED Balls Heart Stamina His style is all wrong for AJ. Ruiz KO's him again. AJ is going to try and beat him with a jab and ring circling away all night, he will blow out and Ruiz will take that big stiff idiot OUT AGAIN His career is over.
If it’s in US with VADA then Ruiz If it’s in UK with UKAD Joshua stops Ruiz in sensational style in about 3 rounds, suddenly returning to his previous form and most unbelievably keeping up with Ruiz’s hand speed in exchanges and getting that famous ‘second wind’
A better question is if its close on the cards, can Ruiz win on points? No. I'd guess Ruiz to stop Joshua again if they re-match
No. AJ's best chance is to survive 12 rounds in the UK and let Hearn make sure the judges rob Ruiz on the cards.
When did he say that? I’ve looked for it but can’t find it in any of the breaks between rounds. Was the British feed different or something?
I predicted Ruiz would win for the reason he won the first time around, I'm not changing my mind for the rematch.
Ruiz will win again. One of the key factors in this whole fight was Ruiz ability to take Joshua’s shots. It reminded me of the first round of Hagker Hearns when Tommy Hearns really shook and hurt Hagler with a big shot...then after that initial shock and in the words of the commentator “Hagler is starting to walk through Hearns punches now” I think that is what happened to Ruiz. He took that first knockdown but after that he just walked through some huge punches from Joshua. In my opinion some of the the shots Ruiz took after the knockdown were harder than the ones that put him down. I think Joshua knows he can’t knock him out and that he will keep coming. And Ruiz knows this too. Rematch for Joshua is a bad move. I don’t believe for a minute that he was having panic attacks before the first fight but he definitely will be for this one. Ruiz by KO again....
The only change I will make is the amount of bet. Last time I bet $10 for Ruiz next time I may bet $100
Repeat of the first fight irrespective of how negatively and defensively AJ fights. He just doesn't have the chin to deal with Ruiz flurries and in boxing you eventually get clipped
Call me crazy but I lean toward AJ. Everything I saw tells me Ruiz will likely still be the same problem inside having the same advantages others have pointed out. The tenacity of ruiz on top of that was also an issue for Joshua who would not be denied from getting in the front door past the jab. With all that being said I I felt AJ didn't look right at all. He seemed to not be sharp in his reactions. Not too hip on the drug testing differences which some have mentioned. There looked to me to be something else going on. Nutritional maybe or just flat poor training. Lots of sex leading up to the fight. I don't know. From what I felt after watching his post fight interviews, I feel AJ knows he didn't do something right specifically.
That's likely very true, but we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Ruiz has the power to stop Joshua.
