usyk doesnt look so amazing now after watching joshuas last 2 fights ...

How cute, more playing dumb and goalpost shifting. I love how everyone seems to be trotting out the, but... but... but... these guys are KO artists and that guy isn't argument now, as some determinative factor in regards to P4P rankings. No one seemed to have an issue with slick featherfists being P4P kings until now. As far as the Calzaghe comparison, is that supposed to be some subtle insult? You're comparing him to the Super Middleweight GOAT and one of the best fighters this sport has produced in the last 3 decades.

 

No doubt, clearly he wasn't completely mentally shot after that, but it was a dink in his armor, and it shattered his aura of invincibility to a degree both with his fans and to himself. Even though he showed tremendous grit during that match, the after effects haunted him through several of his performances that followed. He was incredibly risk averse against Takam, Povetkin and especially Parker. The seek & destroy AJ had become a thing of the past. Then he thought he nothing to fear against Ruiz, was starting to get back to the old AJ, and paid for it dearly. Then the skittish performance in the rematch exorcised that demon to a degree, and the post-Wlad AJ was back for the Pulev match. He needed to restore his confidence after both, and did to a degree.

But after what happened with Usyk, that's clearly done the most long term emotional damage. To almost get KO'd and come back from it and win, then to get KO'd and come back from that to school him in the rematch. That leaves minor scars that have healed. But to be at your absolute best and lose via one sided domination, then to train your ass off for the rematch, and perhaps the best version of AJ we've ever seen shows up, and he still loses. That's emasculating to a degree. Because there was no redemption arch this time around, which has been incredibly trying for him to come to terms with. To know there's someone out there that's just better than you, that you cannot beat, when you're in a sport where you need a bit of an ego and all of the confidence that comes with it. To be stripped of that can be psychologically devastating.

 

What? Is this supposed to some sort of gotcha? No ****, I was this forum's most vocal AJ critic for almost a decade, this is news to almost no one. But while I'm in no way a big fan of his as a man, I think he's an insecure spiraling nutcase. At the very least, when I detach myself from something I'm emotionally invested in, and offer up a sober assessment. I'm rarely off the mark. So when I started seeing clowns on this site proclaiming that every bum that comes down the pike will take AJ out, even someone like Franklin. I'd had enough and started defending him to a degree. Because he's now gone from the most overrated to the most underrated on this site. Here was my initial change of heart post.
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...s-river-wilson-bent-rbr.701555/#post-22240808

 

You come at me with this pisspoor attempt at implying racism again, and I'll ban your ass for it. Because it's both inaccurate as well as trolling, off topic and potentially thread derailing.

As far as my assessment, it's absolutely true. Here's why.... Are you with a straight face going to insist that post-Wlad, AJ was the same fighter against Takam, Parker and Povetkin? Yes, clearly he showed a lot of moxie and guts to get up from that knockdown against Wlad, and rallied in impressive fashion. But the long term after effects clearly left him questioning his whiskers to a degree, which is why we saw a far more circumspect, tentative, borderline timid and risk averse version of AJ against the aforementioned fighters. Finally he was getting his confidence back after the win over Povetkin, a little too much, before Ruiz dented again. Clearly all three men deserve a degree of credit for stripping AJ of his confidence and destroying the false perception that he's this unstoppable Tyson like killing machine. But with Wlad he survived and won, then with Ruiz he lost and then avenged that loss. Demons exorcised. But with Usyk, there was no such closure. So he has to live with both of those losses, and clearly neither are sitting very well with him.

 

This is all AJ needed to do according to the so called experts

He couldn't do to Usyk what he did to all those bigger slower behemoths because Usyk wasn't there to be hit and he punished him everytime he tried to do so

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''And Joshua has admitted he cannot enter the rematch using an overly-aggressive approach otherwise he will come unstuck for a second time. “We might have to box, that’s what he (Garcia) said," Joshua revealed during an interview with JD in a teaser of their upcoming ‘Road to Redemption’ video. “It depends what Usyk brings as well. “It’s like trying to swat a fly. You know, because I’m the bigger man, I’m gonna’ go in there and just swat this fly and it is going to die.

"But you know how difficult it is to swat a fly because it moves around a lot and how energy-draining that is. I can’t just now come in and start boxing like Mike Tyson - it’s just not me - I have got to be the best me.''

Top American does this and the same clowns call it artwork and genius

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Fact is he looked much better against Usyk, Pulev and for Fat Andy 2 than he did against Franklin and Helenius all of whom are much better than the later two. No one made him have an epic nervous breakdown in the ring and bawl his eyes out at the post-fight presser. Usyk did that to him. That;s how badly those losses affected him mentally. Usyk took his soul and destroyed his confidence.