Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua: I'm Just Trying to Get Smarter as a Fighter; I Know This Is Going to Work

[TMLT87]

AJ is most likely in the last 3 years of his career. Its getting boring hearing all this talk like hes going to magically improve or change up his style or go back to the old AJ or what the **** ever. He is as good as hes ever going to be, not saying hes a bad fighter by any means, hes pretty good, but he reached his ceiling a long time ago.

[Jab jab boom]

I don't understand the 'didn't deal with adversity' against Ruiz. Nor with Usyk.

Do you mean he lost the fights?

Against Ruiz he was sent silly in the 3rd round but kept getting up and going after Ruiz, only to get tagged in the exchanges again. Then he came back and beat him convincingly.

There's no evidence that he's mentally weak. There's plenty that he's mentally simple. But, besides Usyk, they all are in that division.

in the Ruiz fight he quit. Even the announcers called it saying, he doesn’t want anymore right before the ref read this same body language and stopped the fight. In the first Usyk fight he stopped trying to win and then once the bell sounded he d****d himself over the ropes as if he were dying. Another sign of weakness. Second fight with Usyk , he tried to start of stronger , it eventually fell back into the same pattern as the first, he again stopped trying to win and then went in a mentally unstable rant at the end saying he can’t do 12 rounds. So that’s my opinion on how he deals with adversity. If you disagree, that’s cool.

[Jab jab boom]

1. You’d never know how Klitschko would have dealt with Joshua in his prime as they fought when he was past it. That’s just presuming.

2. I was talking from my perspective, he was losing that fight in my eyes until the stoppage and he was up against it. Scorecards in the favour of the A side home fighter is no surprise.

3. He repeatedly got off the floor against Ruiz and the referee stopped the fight, he also apparently had health issues that had effected him in his last few fights, which was diagnosed after the loss. He then took the immediate rematch, changed his style and schooled him. He took the immediate rematch against Usyk too after being schooled himself and performed so much better and lost the fight in the last 3 rounds. That’s called fighting against adversity, again you’re just presuming he lacks it.

I’m not presuming anything. I’m telling you what I’ve literally seen with my own eyes. I saw him quit vs Ruiz and saw him stop trying to win and display bizarre behaviors in the aftermath. I’ve seen him fight extremely passively since Ruiz as well. So you can ignore that and perceive that differently, but I don’t see how anyone would.

[SN!PER]

Getting punched in the head makes you smarter?

Good luck with that AJ. Good luck.