Is AJ the most bizarre boxer since Oliver McCall?

[BangEM]

Yeah I remember when this story came out a while back, I think there was a screenshot but I'm not sure if it was verified to really be AJ (not sure) I remember thinking to myself.. this just doesn't seem like him at all, who f says that lol? I think he's just too nice at times, then I see stuff like that (again not sure if it was really him, or faked)

Just a confused lad who can’t embrace who he’s. You’re who your experience and attributes are. Once you embrace both and not try to be what you’re not - you won’t reach your full potentials.

That’s the screenshot that some racist cunnnts use as proof that he’s racist when they don’t know he actually has more in common with them than black people. He’s just like the Irish guy that runs EDL. The lad is Irish but he’s trying to defend English territorial integrity when the average Irish geezer in Ireland wants nothing to do with the England when it comes to territory.

[Smash]

jeez this AJ dude is more complicated than he looks, i mean hes managed to piss of both black and white people at the same time, hes too black for white people & too white for black people, too timid for black people & not shaping up to what white people expect of a so called tough top boxer, i guess when u lose u lose more than just that 0, it can take your soul and your identity too

[BangEM]

No. He’s the most over rated since Matthysse.

Al went from being the kingpin to not being mentioned in the top-2.

Did Hearn and Arum Ja Rule Al Haymon?

At this point, we might need a versuz between Al and Don King to make him relevant again.

[The Big Dunn]

Al went from being the kingpin to not being mentioned in the top-2.

Did Hearn and Arum Ja Rule Al Haymon?

At this point, we might need a versuz between Al and Don King to make him relevant again.

I think ranking him3 or 4 is very fair given his resume. Losses matter.

If he beats Usyk and then the wilder/fury 3 winner, he’s back at #1.

[Sctrojan]

jeez this AJ dude is more complicated than he looks, i mean hes managed to piss of both black and white people at the same time, hes too black for white people & too white for black people, too timid for black people & not shaping up to what white people expect of a so called tough top boxer, i guess when u lose u lose more than just that 0, it can take your soul and your identity too

Right?! Lmao...don't think his $100mil career earnings are going to be enough to wipe those tears of shame/guilt/grief us broke ass bsceners are giving him...

[elfag]

I was thinking that AJ was the most robotic looking black fighter I have seen. Of course Usyk was making him look robotic but still.

Some of the soviet fighters are a lot slicker these days. And skilled slicksters, not those hack british ones like saunders and calzaghe that are sloppy and just look good in there with bums. But you got Pirog, Usyk, Loma and Bivol. Basically high speed internet has been around 20 years and these guys were teenagers when they were watching tapes and video of american slicksters and adopting their style.

[NYG]

You know him? Ask him if he can lend me 10k

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Or does the guy have mental issues?

I dunno about AJ but you certainly do.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

he's seen him on the telly

[billeau2]

I know Mayorga was weird but has there been anyone as weird as AJ?

The guy does everything boxers at the level he's at don't do. Or does the guy have mental issues?

As long as his opponent doesn't disrespect him because he thinks he's Al Capone in his head, he struggles to maintain a straight face without laughing and hugging boxers trying to take his head off and everything he has. And whenever he loses, he's still out there smiling.

Boxers are told not to box with a boxer and hook with a hooker. But only AJ goes into the ring trying to outbox a boxer and hook with a hooker.

Rather than be himself - he's the only boxer I know who always want to outdo the flavour of the week. 1). Wilder sparked Breazeale by pawing his left and swinging his windmill right. Not to be outdone by Wilder due to the buzz it created - he decided to try the same thing against a fat Mexican with granite chin. Tried it the first time and Ruiz ate it. Then tried it the 2nd time and got ffcked up. 2). Before his last fight, everyone was calling Usyk a master boxer. Not to be outdone, AJ decided to outbox the guy.

Insanity is when you keep doing the same thing while expecting a different result. AJ is the only boxer that expects a different result from doing the same thing. The same amateur coaching team in an amateur setup. And the same greedy promoter who doesn't care about him apart from the money he generates and one that won't mind sending him to the ring even if he's not 100% fit as long as there's a rematch clause he can benefit immensely from. Frank Warren is everything in the world but he's never afraid to pull out of a fight if his fighter isn't fully fit.

AJ is a middle class white guy in a black man's body (I say this because I know him) and he's more comfortable around white and mixed race people than black people. However, somehow still end up with brain malfunction whereby he can make weird offhand racial comments. But in reality, that's not him - he's a tanned middle class white geezer. I was raised around black people and I don't know one that acts like AJ and that feels more comfortable around other races than his own race.

Very Interesting analysis... I have a unique perspective here in the States having grown up, a minority (A white guy) in East Harlem, most of the kids I grew up with were Puerto Rican, or Black. I say this because, something one from a hood like East Harlem cannot help noticing is the lack of brutality you often see in British fighters. Not in the ring per se...but the way they speak and conduct themselves. I always get a feeling like there is a fragility there... again, this is perception, not reality. I also must say that Whyte and Chisora, seem the exception regarding this perception. It is probably why I have always liked those two...

There is no question in my mind that however one frames the issue with AJ, he would benefit immeasuraby being in a boxing gym, with a trainer like Don Turner, in America. Lewis benefitted from this for many of the very same reasons. When I think of AJ in my schoolyard days, he would have to be a killer the way he walks around lol... He just presents as soft... lol. Not so much for Chisora or Whyte... different mentality entirely.

I don't claim to know what it is about AJ... But whatever you are picking up on your radar, I am picking up on as well. Killer instinct. Killer instinct is the reason IMO Klitsko was never a GOAT. It was something Lewis seemes to artificially develop later in his career (the Michael Grant fight for example) that elevated him. AJ would benefit from it immeasurably IMO.