Ruiz is a skilled ****er. He will engage with you and there will be shots exchanged unless you have a very good strategy (and skills) to avoid that (or run like Parker and get a hometown gift). Sooner or later AJ will be hit in ways he doesn't like. Will another head shot disorient him?
You can't "train" taking head shots, especially unexpected ones. You can't toughen up your head. It causes trauma and it takes a good while to recover.
Joshua may well win this rematch, or not. In either case it could be disastrous on his near-future fights. I think he has a real chance of losing the rematch, and also getting shell-shocked in the manner David Price did ... from returning too soon and with no added defensive skills to reduce shots to the head (as much as he can).
I like AJ, he still has a bright future. No need to rush ... fan-girls/hearn/DAZN be damned. Maybe a training injury will slow him down. Time will tell. He suffered real trauma in that fight, jokes aside. He should be on the sidelines, with light sparring down the road, for a year. Get his mind, energy, and resolve all the way back. Time will tell.
PS - If AJ wins, there will have to be a third fight. IJS
You can't "train" taking head shots, especially unexpected ones. You can't toughen up your head. It causes trauma and it takes a good while to recover.
Joshua may well win this rematch, or not. In either case it could be disastrous on his near-future fights. I think he has a real chance of losing the rematch, and also getting shell-shocked in the manner David Price did ... from returning too soon and with no added defensive skills to reduce shots to the head (as much as he can).
I like AJ, he still has a bright future. No need to rush ... fan-girls/hearn/DAZN be damned. Maybe a training injury will slow him down. Time will tell. He suffered real trauma in that fight, jokes aside. He should be on the sidelines, with light sparring down the road, for a year. Get his mind, energy, and resolve all the way back. Time will tell.
PS - If AJ wins, there will have to be a third fight. IJS
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