I'm betting half what I won on the first fight, seems strange the betting odds are similar to the first fight despite Joshua getting destroyed in the first fight! It's like the Bookies are looking to make up for what they lost in the first one! Like they have some inside info on the cards stacked against Ruiz by this Hearn staged event!
He predicted that Wilder would destroy Ortiz in the 1st round. Ruiz took Joshua's best shots in the first fight. He will not be stopped that's for sure. The best Joshua can do is go for a boring patient win but that's not exactly his style is it?
Joshua says he has one objective in this fight "Seek and Destroy!" which may be to throw off Ruiz about his real game plan which is to jab and grab like the Octopuss and kill the clock to a nice biased judges victory!!
Joshua said in latest interview something happened before the last fight but he wouldn't say what it was.. I guess it's a case of pick a rumour then, one of them must have been true.. Lol Wonder What what went on in reality, because it definitely seems something did.
Joshua did look different going into his last fight. Physically different. My hunch is he was off his PEDs and was thus not confident. PEDs won't fix his mediocre boxing skills but they will make him more powerful when he does connect. That is Joshua's game. He out physicals people. I don't recall him out slicking any one. This should be a great fight. Joshua knows this is do or die for him. Ruiz will be hungry.
There is a reason why Joshua's team wanted the fight in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia not exactly a hot bed of boxing. Ruiz objected to the location but then relented and went along. Who would doing the PED testing in SA? Do they have credibility? Have they done it before?