Ruiz ruined Joshua

[JakeTheBoxer]

Joshua can`t take the punch any more.

He was f.ucking scared fighting a cruiserweight champ.

Ruiz loss was no fluke, Ruiz started this. He took Joshua`s soul and Joshua can`t let it go. When Usyk started landing, these memories came back to Joshua`s mind.

[MPX309]

its true, he's got no confidence in his chin now and has lost his "mean streak"

[TMLT87]

He had already been hurt multiple times before Ruiz, and in the Pulev fight he tried to be aggressive again.

Usyk was just too quick, skilled and durable. No version of Joshua was gonna win that fight.

[mlac]

Nah, the writing was on the wall after the Wlad fight, AJ even said himself that he cant be in many more of those kind of fights, which loosely translates to, i dont want to be in those kind of fights again. I think that fight put the quit in him, So as soon as someone put it on him after that (Ruiz) he folded. If Parker put it on him, he might of folded there too.
You could see in rounds 3-5 he got some of his old confidence back, then usyk answered back in the 6th with a few left hands, and he went back in his shell & accepted defeat.

[hugh grant]

Josh can still beat good people but when you fight good fighters you can lose. Josh hasn't got the invincible aura no more.
But he has learnt enough to still take down names

[Ray*]

Nah Wlad ruined him. After that fight he was never the same, he has been in transition since that fight, go back and watch him after the Wlad fight, Takam, Parker etc he has been trying to transition to taking less shots since. Gun shy ever since..

[BangEM]

its true, he's got no confidence in his chin now and has lost his "mean streak"

I think Wlad ruined him - he took some devastating big hammer rights in that fight.

Watching the Usyk fight again - I think Wlad gave Usyk the blueprint in Ukraine on how to feint and land that straight punch.

Wlad caught AJ all night with that punch by setting it up with feints and lazy jab. And Usyk did the same all night yesterday.

The only difference is that Wlad did it in the orthodox stance with his right whilst Usyk did it in the southpaw stance with his left.

[deathofaclown]

Nah Wlad ruined him. After that fight he was never the same, he has been in transition since that fight, go back and watch him after the Wlad fight, Takam, Parker etc he has been trying to transition to taking less shots since. Gun shy ever since..

This is the truth

[Stuntman Mike]

I think Wlad ruined him - he took some devastating big hammer rights in that fight.

Watching the Usyk fight again - I think Wlad gave Usyk the blueprint in Ukraine on how to feint and land that straight punch.

Wlad caught AJ all night with that punch by setting it up with feints and lazy jab. And Usyk did the same all night yesterday.

The only difference is that Wlad did it in the orthodox stance with his right whilst Usyk did it in the southpaw stance with his left.

Beautiful post ... let's go back on everything you said pre fight take everything away from usyk when he wins by saying wlad wrote the blueprint and Joshua is a shell of himself

Quite different from the animal you made Joshua to be in the rematch with ruiz

[punchr]

AJ didn't look shot; he was just in there with a better boxer who got the jump on him. AJ shouldn't have tried to outbox Oleksandr. He needed to put his weight on the smaller man and land a bomb, at the risk of getting knocked out. AJ was getting PTSD flashbacks in there, preventing him from taking risks.