Originally posted by Sid-Knee
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Frank Smith admitted they didnt want it in December
Now AJ has just turned down a good 60/40 offer to go fight Whyte instead. His team aren't hiding the fact they declined the fight.
Now you're seeing AJ was a protected fighter. Never won belts established champs that were considered top 3. He was feasting on 40 year olds, winning titles off the likes of Charles Martin etc. They did a great job protecting him and building him until he was finally given a real mandatory fight with Usyk, and got his arse handed to him twice. And lets not forget hes 1-1 with C level Andy Ruiz
But now what's happened is he has no belts and couldn't sell out the o2 arena, so now he hasn't got the luxury of feasting on 40 year olds as the A side and now he's getting offers to fight real champs like Fury, he's declining the fights. That's because he's never beat any proper long reigning champs for belts, because they protected him from those fighters for years and they still are.
They've only found the courage to fight Wilder now after all these years because Fury sent him to the hospital twice
You're now seeing the real AJ, the man who never beat top level champs, the protected fighter he was for a while until Usyk took his belts.
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