Comments Thread For: Andy Ruiz on AJ: I Don't Know Why He Wasn't Moving Around; I Felt He Was Scared, Holding Back

[ShoulderRoll]

You ruined him, Andy.

Joshua's head hasn't been right since the night you TKO'd him.

[Tecnoworld]

That jump'n'run was just for you Andy who could not chase him due your ginormous weight. Usyk frustrated him in any possible way.

[Jab jab boom]

You obviously didn’t watch the fight.

I guess Usyk also stopped him from making the right stance with his lead foot and cemented his feet to the ground whenever he got into range.

I watched the fight and the truth that you refuse to accept is that Joshua is not who you thought he was or want him to be. He is who he is and he can’t and didn’t beat Usyk. It’s like Danny Garcia and Adrien Broner. They lose and people say, oh, they could’ve won if they let their hands go. Yeah and my aunt would be my uncle if she had balls but that’s not who they are. There’s no boxing adjustment Joshua can make that would result in a win. His chin is fragile, just like his will to win.

[Jack Rivers]

Andy, if you didn't blow up to be as fat as a house for the 2nd fight you would still be champ.

[turnedup]

The more you fight and don’t fix holes, the more tools a smart boxer and trainer will have to beat you with. This is flat out simple and it seems like people want to blame coaches and stuff. Joshua is and has been fully aware of his flaws. He’s the one in the ring, he’s got more than enough money and resources to work on those things. We’ve already seen plenty coaches tell us with some fighters you can’t tell em what to do they don’t listen. We saw it with wilder, winning? Why fix it? Eventually it gets too late to fix. It’s always on the boxer.

[BangEM]

I watched the fight and the truth that you refuse to accept is that Joshua is not who you thought he was or want him to be. He is who he is and he can’t and didn’t beat Usyk. It’s like Danny Garcia and Adrien Broner. They lose and people say, oh, they could’ve won if they let their hands go. Yeah and my aunt would be my uncle if she had balls but that’s not who they are. There’s no boxing adjustment Joshua can make that would result in a win. His chin is fragile, just like his will to win.

I’m not arguing that he isn’t who he’s. I’m arguing against your claim that Usyk made him that way - which isn’t the case.

His stance throughout the fight, especially the placement of his lead foot was completely wrong. And every time Usyk get in range to throw his lead left - AJ planted his feet without moving out of range except a couple of rds when he stepped back even when it became so predictable.

That wasn’t Usyk - that was AJ making novice mistakes.

[BangEM]

The more you fight and don’t fix holes, the more tools a smart boxer and trainer will have to beat you with. This is flat out simple and it seems like people want to blame coaches and stuff. Joshua is and has been fully aware of his flaws. He’s the one in the ring, he’s got more than enough money and resources to work on those things. We’ve already seen plenty coaches tell us with some fighters you can’t tell em what to do they don’t listen. We saw it with wilder, winning? Why fix it? Eventually it gets too late to fix. It’s always on the boxer.

You’re a product of your coaches in boxing. And AJ’s core style of fighting isn’t different from his coach’s style when he was active and Froch’s (who was also trained by the same coach). There’s a reason why his coach never went beyond British level and why Froch only achieved what he achieved because of his chin and his heart.

AJ’s problem is that he acts like a nice guy in public but in his head he thinks he’s Al Capone hence he’s confused. If he can be himself and know his flaws - he’ll find a better coach that will coach a lot of the flaws out of him. I also don’t feel he’s humble enough to do what Wlad and Lennox did with Emanuel Steward. And that’s one of his biggest problems.

[hugh grant]

It was hard to land in usy k so why would Josh move around?

[Blond Beast]

Joshua isn’t a natural fighter. He’s a big athlete. I thought he’d do better and it’d be much closer. Usyk didnt look great in his last fight, but a six month camp for the fight of his life paid off. He started strong this time, weathered the middle then came back hard late. Brilliant game plan. He moved his head and feet so much that I thought there was a chance he would get tired, but it didn’t happen. Part of it is because he didn’t take too many punches. On the other hand I think every time AJ gets hit it drains him. Usyk fought a matter class fight. He pushed the offence enough as the challenger to really avoid getting screwed over. AJ needed to muscle through Usyk’s punches and trap him with hooks to the body, no easy task. I thought AJ’s stuff jab would keep Usyk off early but it wasent the case. Usyks movement was amazing, head and feet. Now let’s see Usyk fight the rest of the best.