Comments Thread For: Hearn Defends Joshua's Bizarre Rant in Aftermath of Usyk Loss

[Alan Smithee]

Throwing the champions belts OUT of the ring because you lost isn’t disrespectful?

I hate to think what kind of “Mother” or “Father” raised you, man you need to learn a LOT.

The British boxing fans do not want to call him out for his nonsense.

[Smash]

joshua really is a cash cow, imagine taking cash from ***** to declare it a civil war, thats low, im surprised he didnt refer to special military operation, if u can lipread usyk after he says, send him to the front line

[_Rexy_]

I don’t see where he disrespected anybody. He gave Usyk probs, he admitted his own shortcomings but I agree the time and place was off, but I wouldn't call it disrespectful or any of that.

He threw the championship belts out of the ring FFS. That’s not disrespectful?

[_Rexy_]

The British boxing fans anointed this clown as the next great thing. That post fight rant showed his true colors. Frank Bruno 2.0 and nothing more!

Bruno was class

[SplitSecond]

Solid by Eddie. Joshua should keep his head up. Guy deserves far more respect. But the boxing dweebs can only like winners.

[Smash]

So what is joshua saying in his rant? that while he was running around hertfordshire as a teen thinking he was al capone that usky was hard at work in the gym and thats why hes better than him? Anyway, a minor drug conviction as a teen for cannabis may or may not have stopped him fighting in america & how often has he fought there and when he did he got flattened by a pizza & wouldnt have stopped him from becoming a boxer and i doubt very much saudi would care less about a teen drug conviction if he did get one, so its time to find eddies shoulder and have a good cry & save the al capone stories for the beers on a saturday night to impress the lads

[Apollo7]

He threw the championship belts out of the ring FFS. That’s not disrespectful?

Looked to me like he dropped them in the ring but yeah he shouldn't have done that. It was a little emotional outburst, not the end of the world.

[Clegg]

I didn't find him offensive, just another ****** cringe moment in boxing history. But the underwhelming performance he gave makes it look worse.

Wilder and Fury are unusual guys, psychologically speaking. Fury-Wilder II was very one-sided. Yet Wilder fought with confidence in their third fight, and he gave it his all, took risks, seemed genuinely willing to die in the ring. So when they come out with ******/bizarre comments I can be a bit more understanding. They are passionate people and sometimes emotion clouds logic.

But AJ is almost the opposite of that. We all knew after that first fight that AJ couldn't come in and try and box or just pick his moments, he had to basically show the same mindset that Wilder had for the last Fury fight. But he simply couldn't do it, he's too cautious, conservative, thinks about everything, is well trained but when a fight gets hard he seems to be lacking real fighting instinct. Basically he is like Wlad psychologically.

Even his choice of trainer showed a lack of conviction. He was with McCracken solo at first, then had McCracken main coach and Fernandez assistant coach, for the rematch switched to Fernandez and Garcia, with Fernandez giving corner instructions. It suggests a guy who knows there is benefit in sticking with people who know you best, but also knows that a switch can re-energise your career, especially after a loss. But rather than make one big decision, AJ has just made a series of half-changes bit by bit over a few years.

So for me it's extra embarrassing when somebody with an AJ personality has an outburst. He can box 24 rounds with Usyk without his emotions boiling over and causing him to get aggressive. But once the fight is over he can throw the guy's belts then take the mic from him and refuse to give it back for 5 minutes while talking nonsense? Where was this passion at any point during the fight?

[Smash]

i felt sorry for AJ when eddie was listing all his stadium fights one after another, all that cash flowing in and those noisy crowds, i think others have gone stateside before AJ too eddie, thats not changing the world unfortunately, but it sure changed pizza face's life, that was good going

[_Rexy_]

Looked to me like he dropped them in the ring but yeah he shouldn't have done that. It was a little emotional outburst, not the end of the world.

Oh, he only dropped them out of the ring. Not disrespectful at all then. My mistake. I’m sure pulling the Ukrainian flag off Usyk and wrapping it around himself was a show of respect too?