Viking Power knocks out the Juicy One before the bell rings. He hits that hard. He also brutally knocks out any version of Charles Martin who steps in the ring with him. Except for the one that actually did so last night.
After last night's showing, the question should be what round AJ stops Anderson. I say between 2 and 5.
Martin looked like crap. He didn't even try to win. Had Anderson on ***** street in the 6th and did absolutely nothing in the 7th. AJ stops him by the 8th,
His movement has improved. In the Ortiz fight and this fight he was constantly stepping off to the side, not just standing there to be hit with counters like he did in earlier fights. So in this regard he has improved. But that wasn't the best version of Martin, how could he be on 12 days notice when preparing for a fight 4 weeks later against a totally different style of fighter. Still better than the version that Joshua demolished but not the best version of Martin.
He only looked good in flashes. I wonder how he would of done with a full training camp, his low work rate may have been due to him simply conserving his gas tank. He had that big 5th round but then seemed to take the 6th off, perhaps too gassed from the effort he put in the 5th. Still think this version does better vs AJ now, he won't be a sitting duck for AJ's right hand like before, as he will step off to the side after throwing. But lets be honest it wouldn't be hard to do better 2nd time round when he was so bad the first time. Just making it to round 3 would be an improvement. Current version probably takes Joshua to the middle rounds as he's more evasive with his movement but Joshua would again stop him, too much power and if an AJ in first gear can stop him without even trying, one that's actually looking to KO him would put a serious beating on him.
Oh yes, the mental fragile AJ, who only scored one KO win in the last 4 years (over a 72 year old Pulev), is going to KO Anderson early on. If AJ was scared to throw punches vs feather fist Franklin, what would he do vs Anderson?
If Martin can hurt Jared and have him in bad trouble at the end of the fight then AJ will destroy him, two of those fights in those 4 years were v Usyk, Jared has never been in at that level.
Anderson doesn`t have the same power as Ruiz, Wlad or Whyte, Martin showed more power than Jared despite the flash knockdown.