AJ Crying at Post-Fight Presser

[WBC WBA IBF]

I don't get the Joshua hate.

Everything was handed to him and he avoided top challenges.

Everything was handed to him, he avoided top challenges, and he still managed to lose three times.

That's the reason for the Joshua hate.

[Grandma Pleaser]

I'm sure the emotions are never getting the Wilder or Fury fight. I do believe he wanted to throw the dice with both of them. At the moment things probably look pretty grim for his career going forward. However he's only 32. He has plenty of time left to carve out a second or third career. But the thing is, I don't see him as a lifer when it comes to boxing.

The wilder fight is definitely possible. Two guys come up shorting fighting for the bronze (3rd place).

[Toffee]

I don't blame his emotion. He was always the one who desperately wanted to unify the division and now knows he never will. If he meant everything he's said over the years then he should feel absolutely crushed tonight.

Completely different phase in his career now. End of an era.

[SteelHammer947]

Everything was handed to him and he avoided top challenges.

Everything was handed to him, he avoided top challenges, and he still managed to lose three times.

That's the reason for the Joshua hate.

The reason he has those losses is because he didn't avoid top challenges. The guy has faced better opposition than Fury has.

[Toffee]

Everything was handed to him and he avoided top challenges.

Everything was handed to him, he avoided top challenges, and he still managed to lose three times.

That's the reason for the Joshua hate.

He fought belt holders and mandatories across three major organisations. Including fighting Usyk.

Who should he have fought?

No-one else in his era did that.

[mxtali]

It's more about how he is acting after the loss. As if he can't understand why or how he lost. You lost to a better fighter, period. AJ comes off as entitled and thinks he is the only one putting work in

He worked as hard as he could at the highest level of the sport to win this fight and it wasn’t enough. You have to be ultra competitive to win those type of fights. If he had said, “oh well, it happens” he’d get criticized for being okay with losing like he has in the past. Either way he gets dragged

[War Room]

He’s very competitive. It means he cares. He wasn’t there to collect a paycheck, he was there to win. He probably trained really hard. It sucks when you try your best and fail.

That is a problem with society still, even in 2022. Men aren’t allowed to show emotion, or have mental health issues.

These aren't men, these are champions.

[WBC WBA IBF]

The reason he has those losses is because he didn't avoid top challenges.

That makes no sense. Nobody considered Ruiz and Usyk the top challenges. Everybody considered Fury and Wilder the top challenges. Fury and Wilder managed to fight each other three times and Joshua has yet to fight either of them even once. Yet Joshua still wound up with three losses, despite never fighting the top guys.

[WBC WBA IBF]

He fought belt holders and mandatories across three major organisations. Including fighting Usyk.

Who should he have fought?

He should have fought Fury and Wilder, the top two fighters in the division, who fought each other three times because Joshua ducked them both.

Even though he ducked the top two fighters in the division, Joshua still managed to pick up three losses.

[Baerbock]

He did solid in that fight. He's probably more angry at himself more than anything else. But I like his second performance, his body punches are really good on this one.