Is it just me or does Anthony Joshua have a very loserish fanbase?

[deathofaclown]

higher risk than Tom Shwarz and Wallin, which were total cherry picks.

Wallin would beat Ruiz by wide decision. Ruiz is awful.

Schwarz will give you, he’s awful

[uppercut510]

I think hes below bruno at this point but hes still a pretty good fighter, i thought he would beat usyk, as far as his fans, yes they are a bit much and are the reason alot of good posters left the site lol

[billeau2]

OP makes a good point.

Anthony Joshua has attracted a fanbase of White British men who hero-worship him. It is very weird. You will often find memes like, "if I found AJ in bed with my wife, I'd tuck him in!" etc. They comment on his social media about how good he looks etc. They attack anybody, sometimes to the point of Doxing, if they say anything bad about AJ. The large majority of these people fit a certain demographic. I think this is down to AJ's handlers being a bunch of posh, upper-class White men. They market AJ in a certain way to milk the British public, and it works. It is made more comical by AJ's strong pro-Black, pro-***, pro-anti-White political and racial opinions. AJ is all for "his people", loves Africa, and identifies as African, which is fine. There's no problem with being proud of where you come from, and your heritage. But comical how he does all that then milks these gormless English morons who are so gullible and shallow.

Barrett will dox you... he did that already lol. Proof!

[billeau2]

AJ is a timid fighter now, that’s why. You have to agree.

when you watch how Whyte got ironed out by Povetkin but still had the balls to get back in and take the fight to him in the rematch, or Fury walking right at Wilder in their rematch, you have to admit they’re cut from a different cloth to AJ when it comes to confidence in the ring.

AJ looks petrified in there now, , especially under pressure and fighters never overcome that.

To be fair, Joshua had a few good rounds, he did a lot better than I thought he would. I can see why some of his fans think he could do better.

He has talent, just has to decide what he is. A puncher? A boxer? Bruno, who arguably was not as talented as AJ did well because he knew who he was in the ring.

[deathofaclown]

To be fair, Joshua had a few good rounds, he did a lot better than I thought he would. I can see why some of his fans think he could do better.

He has talent, just has to decide what he is. A puncher? A boxer? Bruno, who arguably was not as talented as AJ did well because he knew who he was in the ring.

His problem is he thinks of himself as some master technician but he’s not. He hasn’t got the boxing fluidity or coordination to be the fighter he’d like to be or tries to be. Someone in his team needs have the guts to tell him straight he isn’t and never will be a masterful boxer and get back to combination power punching. But he seems to timid to really commit now. That’s a mental block hard to defeat.

it kind of reminds me of Broner, I’ve always felt that he is fighting a style that is actually taking away from his best attributes. Broner looks so good when he lets his hands go and comes forward, but the problem is he fancies himself as this slick defensive wizard like Floyd or something but he just isn’t. So he tries but becomes half the fighter he is when he actually comes forward and let’s his hands go.

Sometimes you can’t be great in the exact way you dream to be and have to just play to your strengths.

[billeau2]

His problem is he thinks of himself as some master technician but he’s not. He hasn’t got the boxing fluidity or coordination to be the fighter he’d like to be or tries to be. Someone in his team needs have the guts to tell him straight he isn’t and never will be a masterful boxer and get back to combination power punching. But he seems to timid to really commit now. That’s a mental block hard to defeat.

it kind of reminds me of Broner, I’ve always felt that he is fighting a style that is actually taking away from his best attributes. Broner looks so good when he lets his hands go and comes forward, but the problem is he fancies himself as this slick defensive wizard like Floyd or something but he just isn’t. So he tries but becomes half the fighter he is when he actually comes forward and let’s his hands go.

Sometimes you can’t be great in the exact way you dream to be and have to just play to your strengths.

Lol. Just started a thread with the premise of what you stated. I think it has to start with an honest assessment.

[Chrismart]

All popular fighters can have an element of iffy fans. Joshua does big numbers so there's a casual group within his fanbase. Same with Fury in recent times, as well as with fighters like Davis who have gathered a following. (Then there's Wilder fans have been off the scale since the Fury fight).

It's not just with bandwagoners' though, regular fans can be the same. Fanboys and detractors are just as obsessive and as tiresome as each other, the only difference is that they're on different ends of the spectrum. It's always the same within boxing.