Exposed or proven

People hated Fury, who they didn't believe could ever compete with Klitschko, for not getting touched at all. "It was a farce" bla bla. Now Joshua gave you the best heavyweight title fight in decades and he's "exposed". Quitting this mind numbingly fuking retarded place

Proven of course.

He just became the #1 attraction in boxing. He took risks, he fought an obsessed in great shape Wlad and was on the brink of defeat but showed great heart and power and came back to knock Wlad out. Fury vs Wlad was a terrible terrible fight, this right here was the best heavyweight fight of the last 10 years easily and thats thanks to both AJ and Wlad. AJ is also young and fought a legend in just his 19th pro fight, look at Wilder, 39 fights and still fighting absolute trash and getting utterly outboxed by a Gerald Washington. AJ is the man now, Fury is still a year from being able to fight again at a top level, if he ever gonna come back.

Proven! Fighters know they have to kill AJ to defeat him, he won't quit(on his stool).

Fury's fight with Wlad was ****ing dreadful, Wlad looked loads better last night. How many top ten ranked heavyweights would have got up from that right hand ? I believe AJ will walk right through Fury, that's if Fury doesn't uppercut himself out first.

How did that fight prove he was the best?? he fought a 41 year old..got dropped and struggled... Fury won far easier..Good fight but please dont overrate it because it was rock em sockem robits

Just needs more stamina and to pace himself even when his opponent is hurt. Punched himself out in the 5th which led to him being caught in the 6th. Took the 7-8th to recover but arguably won every other round. Exposed himself as an 18 fight novice who'd never fought a great fighter but he's not anymore.

proven... everybody always supect his weakness in stamina but he show an amazing mentality, this is his real first test as an elite fighter and this is only his 19th fights i'm sure he will keep improving

To the dickheads saying Wilder beats AJ... what the hell as Wilder done to even show he can last a round against AJ? Wilder has been wobble legged like 4 fights in a row now against 15-20 ranked guys. Wilder's best win was very likely a fix and his technique is amateur at best.

I had wlad ahead at the time of the stoppage......................

My opinions of him didn't change a lot. He exhausted himself trying to put Wlad away, and that was in an early round. He did get it back toward the end so that's at least a positive. Definitely not iron-chinned, but not terrible either as he did eat a few good, clean ones. He pretty much lived up to what I thought of him, which is that he's a solid HW. I don't think he's a good as Wlad was in his prime, but AJ's still got time to prove himself and even grow. This is very valuable experience for him.

Both. It shows he needs a defence... like anyone with half a brain could have pointed out. Too square, Left too low. etc etc head etc... That reach but only a sporadic jab??? Cardio up, muscle/weight down. He can dig deep.. Power to burn. but no point if your chin is hanging out there in the big boys circuit.

Do you feel AJ proved he is the best heavyweight or got exposed by an old atg? Fans saw both his shortcomings and his ability to overcome adversity. He looked tough but vulnerable. He is very powerful but not yet a finished commodity. Rather than spend a disproportionate amount of time focusing on his negatives, I'm going to focus on the positive and just celebrate the fact the HWT division has an exciting short term future because Joshua found a way to win when he looked almost done.

He showed tremendous heart and desire to get up from that knocked down and to me he has proven himself. First time he properly faced adversity and he handled it great to come back and pull off the victory. Tonight was his night and I'm not going to criticise him, well played AH. He's still fresh in pro boxing and experience gulf was ridiculous but he got the job done. Well played. I'm confident the Wlad we saw today beats every heavyweight bar Fury.

To me you actually have to see if he learns from it before you can say that a guy really learned something. There were lessons to be learned but how seriously does Joshua actually look in the mirror coming off the biggest win of his career. There is no guarantee he actually fixes anything. Not saying he will or he won't but success can often breed failure later on. Better men than Joshua have been felled by hubris. Yeah, we have to wait and see. It was the perfect fight for him to learn and develop to the next level. Whether he does that or not? Who knows.

Neither! In a fight it happens but he showed his heart is greater than his stamina. He gon need to work on that

The guy started fighting at 18 and just knocked out Wlad in the face of adversity. Nine years!! This proves more than it exposes. He will only get better.

I think this might have been exactly the right fight at the right time for AJ. Boxers need challenges to bring out their best. This stretched him. I don't think it is really being exposed when you see a boxer learning in the ring from taking on top challenges - at least not at this stage. I suppose you can call it that if the boxer doesn't learn or improve though. I guess we will see. To me you actually have to see if he learns from it before you can say that a guy really learned something. There were lessons to be learned but how seriously does Joshua actually look in the mirror coming off the biggest win of his career. There is no guarantee he actually fixes anything. Not saying he will or he won't but success can often breed failure later on. Better men than Joshua have been felled by hubris.

This right here. Congrats to Joshua and Im not trying to take anything away from him either. Not trying to take away from Joshua, but he should have had Wlad outta there quick-let's be honest.Anytime Wlad got touched, he got hurt...the fact that Wlad was walking him down with his jab tonight wasn't as much a testament of greatness by Wlad as much as a weakness of AJ. I'm not sure Joshua's chin is any better than Wlad's either...the only difference tonight IMO was that Joshua was younger and had more killer instinct-something which Wlad has been notorious for never having,and it came back to haunt him tonight when he could have won that fight with any degree of that attribute.

Joshua became a man tonight. It won't get much harder than wlad