When would you describe the AJ "era" to have occurred?

There was no Joshua "era"

 

Eh, at least he handle Ngannou well, unlike your fanhero, right ?

 

This. Theres a good chance that Joshua is better than Fury. But that doesn't change Fury was the lineal champ and undo the last 6 or 7 years.

 

The Joshua era began when he became a hyped prospect brand in the UK, a manufactured 'Olympian'.

It went into full swing after Fury beat Wlad, came home to no media attention, Kathy Duva manipulated one of the belts away after a couple of weeks (which would never have happened if Wlad had won), then Glazkov did his knee in the opening rounds against the god that walks the earth, who then took his fake championship over to the UK and fell over versus AJ to crown AJ as the 'next big thing'.

Meanwhile Fury went AWOL and Wlad failed the world to the joy of his trainer Banks, officially making AJ the 'best HW on the planet' and super thug brand for all the degenerate UK corporations.

One champion after another fell to his incredible abilities, none could stand in his way, until that fateful night when, on the verge of conquering America, a short obese fill-in beat him into submission before the world.

He would rise again, run for his life against the even fatter Ruiz, beat some old men, and one with Covid damage, lose to a cruiserweight twice, avoid Fury and Wilder while being terrified of taking a brand-ending loss, and finally return to his peak again after beating Wallin, his former sparring partner who once landed a lucky punch on Fury's eye socket.

But AJ's reign ended the night he was exposed by Ruiz, having all the physical, monetary and enhancement advantages in a comical mismatch to the eyes, but failing to overcome when the going got tough against a fat LHW with a love of Snickers and skipping gym.

 

AJ was never on top of the division, there hasnt been an AJ era as such anymore than there has been a Wilder era

While AJ was popular with the casuals most hardcore fans have always suspected that he was a mirage, built by very careful matchmaking to maximise the financial returns, rather than a true heavyweight warrior and champion

 

He tried that in the first fight and nearly got stopped. So it clearly wasn´t the way to do it.
Not to mention the fact that Joshua typically runs out of gas fighting this way. It nearly cost him the Wlad fight and Ruiz battered him because of his tendency to rush things.

Joshua actually had an effective gamepan for the rematch. He changed things up nicely, something many said he was incapable of doing.

 

There never was a Joshua era in boxing terms.

Fury ended Wlad's era in 2015 to become the man who beat the man and if he beats Usyk + retires unbeaten then 2015-2024 is unquestionably Fury's era. Similarly, if Usyk beats Fury then he's the most successful heavyweight of the post-Wlad era.

Joshua was one of three unbeaten heavyweights who was placed to be the main man in the post-Wlad era: Fury, Wilder and Joshua. For a 25 month period between Wlad and Ruiz 1, Joshua was the non-lineal "consensus" No.1 heavyweight but he'd not fought either of his two main pre-Usyk rivals (and still hasn't), nor is 25 months an "era" in my book. After Joshua lost to Ruiz in 2019 (3 years after winning his first title from Martin), he was universally ranked below Fury and Wilder. Fury was the clear top dog after beating Wilder in 2020. After Joshua lost to Usyk in 2021 and again in 2022 he was again universally outside the top two and eliminated from the title picture for 2+ years.